A £5,000 Lottery grant has been awarded to a Huddersfield-based group to commemorate the 40th anniversary Martin Luther King, a leader of the American civil rights movement.
Solunar Horizon, previously known as the Northern Region Study Group, was one of five Kirklees projects to have received Lottery cash totalling more than £25,000 from the Big Lottery Fund.
Other projects include £1,720 to Almondbury Gala Association to help stage this weekend’s gala and £8,400 to Headlands CE School, Liversedge, for a multi=-sensory room for autistic children.
Almondbury Gala will be held from midday on Saturday August 16, at Almondbury recreation ground.
Four residents’ associations have joined forces for the first time to stage the event and hope to attract more than 3,000 visitors.
Caroline James, head of the Big Lottery Fund for Yorkshire and the Humber, said: “Almondbury is in for a treat with their summer gala.
“Even better than that, the event promises to bring together different community groups, which can only benefit the wider area.
“I’m delighted it is one of the schemes awarded funding in this round of lottery grants.”
Other Kirklees projects receiving funding are Uplift Asian Carers’ Group, Dewsbury, who have been awarded £9,575 for the ‘Safe Care Project’, and Stile Common Junior School which received £852 to help engage parents in improving family skills.
Sixty-two projects have been given more than £465,000 in the Yorkshire and Humber region.
