ELEVEN groups are set to receive a cash boost after successfully applying for grant money as part of Health Challenge Wrexham Week.
A wide variety of new initiatives will now be made possible across the County Borough thanks to the funding that allowed groups to apply for monies up to £1,000 each.
The money has allowed the purchase of activity equipment, the production of healthy recipe booklets, provision of healthy breakfasts, as well as enabling one group to buy ingredients to allow cookery sessions to take place.
Among those benefiting are Community House, AVOW, Dynamic Centre for Children and Young People with Disabilities, Family Friends, Home-Start, Wrexham Lymphoedema Support Group, Cartrefle Playgroup, PMCF and Coedpoeth Development Committee.
It has been made possible thanks to £25,000 of funding from the Welsh Assembly Government to promote Health Challenge Wrexham.
A total of £10,423.71 has been distributed to various groups within the County Borough to help Wrexham become a healthier and fitter place to live and work.
Jeanette Blackford of Coedpoeth Development Committee said their £1,000 will help purchase tools and equipment to provide a Community Garden Project, on a piece of land next to the new Plas Pentwyn centre.
She said: “This is an excellent start to our project. The idea is to involve the whole community and build raised beds to grow vegetables, a wild flower garden and plant some fruit trees.”
The mayor of Wrexham, Cllr David Griffiths, presented the cheques to all 11 groups.
