A COMMUNITY charity is setting up four new projects to help people young and old.

Kidz Klub Allerton, which received a Big Lottery Fund grant of nearly £500,000, is rolling out the projects over the next week.

These include an enterprise-themed after-school club in which children will be challenged to develop and create a new product, before selling it on stalls at a community fun day.

Charity manager Josiah Sulc said: “Starting right from market research, they’ve then got to make a product, get people’s feedback on it, then design some packaging and all the rest of it. Then they have to turn up on the day and actually sell it.”

Another project is a once-a-week family breakfast club, where parents are invited to come along and eat with their children.

As well as an opportunity for family bonding, the club is designed to make sure any families in need can get a decent meal.

Mr Sulc said: “My logic is, if a child is going hungry, a parent is going hungry as well. Parents will always feed their children first.”

The third project offers football sessions for dads and their children. Charity manager Josiah Sulc said they wanted to offer something that would appeal to fathers, and football had been a popular idea.

And the fourth project offers an adults’ version of the enterprise scheme, which is aimed at unemployed people.

Yesterday, the charity held a celebration event at its base, in Allerton’s Cafe West community centre, to kick off the after-school project.