LOTTERY cash to the tune of more than £88,000 is being shared out between groups in Bradford for good causes as varied as providing a village hall with a new lift and running an art session for people with mental health issues.

In total, 11 Bradford groups have benefitted from grants ranging from £4,071 to £10,000 from the Awards for All grants handed out by the Big Lottery Fund.

Yorkshire and Humber Forum on Ageing was awarded £4,071 for a project to deliver education workshops for older people to reduce loneliness and isolation.

UK Butterfly, a group which works with Eastern Europeans, was granted £9,880 for a project to improve communication and employability skills for women to encourage integration.

Tong Parochial Church Council got a grant of £9,785 to work with disadvantaged families to reduce anti social behaviour in the area.

Woodlands Cricket Club gets £10,000 to deliver a series of activities for young people, including teenage pregnancy awareness sessions.

The West Bowling Community Advice Centre received £8,803 to deliver IT sessions for people aged 50 or more.

The Phoenix Art Club in Eccleshill was given a grant of £4,600 to pay a tutor so it can continue to deliver classes for older people.

Thorpe Edge Community Project received £9,940 to deliver a summer festival to promote good health and wellbeing.

Jer Lane Cricket Club has a grant of £9,129 for a new boiler and flooring, and the Bazmay Khawateen Elderly Women's Group won £9,908 to provide events and activities for black and minority ethnic women in the community.

Clayton Community Association received a grant of £5,000 toward providing a new lift in Clayton Village Hall. The group hopes that a lift will make the grade II listed hall more accessible to more people, including the elderly and disabled.

Thanks to a similar £5,000 grant last year, a £15,000 grant by WREN, and about £5,000 raised by the community, the group is now planning for the lift to be installed in September.

Councillor Carol Thirkill, chairman of the Clayton Village Hall group, said: "The larger function rooms with bar facilities with the bar service are on the upper floors.

"A lift will really open the hall up, it is something we have been trying to achieve for years. We're really looking forward to it, because it is used by everyone in the community."

Hive, an arts group based in Shipley, received a grant of £7,495 to provide arts workshops for people with poor mental health. The sessions will be held in the Bradford office of Mind, and run twice a week for a year.

Those who attend will also be given details of of the everyday work Hive does.

Its manager Joy Hart said: "It will be introducing people to creativity, and there could be people writing while others are painting. We have already run a pilot project that has been really popular. It has get people going out to buy paintbrushes to take part in arts when they wouldn't normally leave the home."