Community projects have been the main beneficiaries of lottery grants in Keighley

The biggest winner so far in Keighley has been the Sangat Community Centre, which received £375,000 for services in the Lawkholme area.

Other winners over the past five years: The Cellar Project received £96,375 last year to buy and improve its town centre building for a range of groups helping people with mental health problems.

*A £90,000 grant to Keighley and District Association for the Blind in 1996 helped fund its pioneering resource centre.

* Manorlands received £60,000 the same year to help fund an extension to its Oxenhope hospice.

* The future of two safe houses run by Keighley Women's Aid was secured last year with a £122,940 grant.

* Keighley Women's Centre last year received £154,497 to fund three jobs, running costs and support materials, adding to £42,109 given in 1996 for a dementia project.

* The Senior Health Awareness Project received £100,412 in 1996 to fund three years of services to the over-50s in Keighley.

* Keighley Voluntary Services was able to improve its Volunteer Bureau and set up a new young people's volunteer project with a £104,706 grant, two years after receiving £27,075 to refurbish its HQ.

* Keighley's Scout movement received a £15,000 boost to help complete the modernisation of its district headquarters in Haworth.

* A £30,000 arts handout in 1997 funded a film documentary by Silsden woman Ann Walker, music workshops, an acting school, 3D bird sculptures, children's dance projects and an East Morton storyteller Peter Leech.

* The All Saints Summer Scheme provided reading support to around 60 youngsters in Highfield, Braithwaite and Guard House with a £3,000 grant last year.

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