Lanarkshire disability sports club gets £5k New Year cash boost

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Members of East Kilbride Youth Disability Sports Club are celebrating a great start to the New Year after securing a £5000 grant.

The cash boost comes from from Voluntary Action South Lanarkshire (VASLan), local administrators of the Scottish Government’s Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund.It will go towards a residential activity weekend for club members at the Lochgoilhead National Activity Centre in Argyll this August and help to pay venue hire and professional coaching costs for the club’s year round multi-sports programme.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Chairman Len Richardson told Lanarkshire Live : “What a great start to the New Year for the club. "We are so grateful to VASLan for this fantastic support, which enables us to maintain our much needed community service."During the pandemic our normal fund raising activities have been severely curtailed, and this grant allows us to continue to deliver all our services throughout 2022."VASLan chief executive, Steven Sweeney, said the organisation was "proud to celebrate and champion" the incredible achievements of people,