A Huddersfield charity is in the running to get funding... but it needs the public’s support.

Linthwaite-based Ruddi’s Retreat, which provides free holidays for children battling serious illnesses or coping with bereavement., has a cafe and sweet shop called Ruddi’s Vintage Treat Rooms on Manchester Road in Linthwaite.

The charity is now raising money to buy a holiday lodge for children battling serious illnesses. It also has caravans on the east coast for family holidays.

It wants to turn an area of land behind it into a community garden and already has £620 from Kirklees Council’s Rural District Committee. Once renovated, 50 local children a year will be taught gardening and environmental skills and all produce grown will be sold in the cafe and used to raise charity funds.

But £5,000 is needed to provide a wheelchair-accessible decking area and the charity is applying for it from a savings and investments organisation called One Family.

Ruddi’s Retreat has put the application in for the decking and to improve access to the garden. The decking would mean it could serve an extra 10 customers, boosting the amount raised for the charity.

The charity is in the health, disability and social care section and is up against some very well supported organisations so it really needs the Examiner to ask local people to back it.

The application is now at the public vote stage and the charity has urged as many people as possible to vote for it before the deadline on November 3.

Click here to vote.

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