ORGANISATIONS in Huddersfield are among good causes sharing more than £465,000 of lottery cash in Yorkshire.

Awards for All, the small grants scheme run by the Big Lottery Fund on behalf of Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England, has distributed £465,584 to 66 community and voluntary projects across the county in its latest round of awards.

The individual awards range from £300 to £10,000.

Among the recipients, Holme Valley Sharing Memories Group has received £6,155 for its Family Jewels project to decorate a new family room in Brockholes Junior and Infant School.

Older people will work with the school to provide items for the room, using their own experiences as inspiration.

The group has worked with older people to take crafts skills into local schools and community groups since 1992.

Project manager Sally Brown said: “Older people have so much to give and this project is a wonderful way of capturing memories and experiences in a creative, living way rather in a static form.

“There are so many benefits – breaking down the barriers between younger and older generations, raising confidence and self-esteem and combating social isolation, which some of our members who are living on their own can feel.”

She said: “The workshops will be led by a professional jeweller and two other artists and the children and our members will learn crafts skills side by side.”

Also awarded a lottery grant is Huddersfield-based diabetes support group Honeyzz, which gets £7,300 to further its programme of support and information for people from minority ethnic groups who have diabetes.

The funding means the volunteer organisation, based at St John’s Resource Centre, Birkby, can increase the number of drop-in clinics from two a month to eight.

Chairman Denzil Nurse said: “We cater mainly for African-Caribbean groups and other communities who are often termed ‘hard to reach’.

“We invite healthcare professionals to an informal setting that our members can visit so that they can get access to information and support in a familiar, safe environment.

“We encourage our members to be active about contacting their doctors and our group can be an important first step for those people who are yet to confront the fact of their having the condition.”

Other projects receiving funding are Poperetta Ltd in Holmfirth, which receives £2,200 to run a programme of keyboard lessons for young people; St John’s CE Infant School in Dewsbury, which gets £4,820 to offer out-of-school fitness classes; and Mirfield Community Partnership, which will have £9,850 to spend on a seasonal art project for the community.