FOUR Denbighshire organisations are among the 22 across North Wales who have been awarded National Lottery grants to help support their communities.

A total of £319,101 National Lottery money has been shared out between community groups and organisations in the north this month.

In Denbigh, Lamb's Garden Enterprise Ltd will provide nature studies activities for long term hospital in-patients with its grant of £9,977, to aid their recovery and improve health and wellbeing. 

Elizabeth Anderson, a Dementia Support Worker, said:  “Grow4it delivers a person-centred, individual hour of escapism for patients. Being in hospital means that elderly patients have limited access to the outdoors.

"A lot of these patients adore their gardens and embrace being outside. Having Grow4it coming in to discuss various topics brings the outside inside, or it will make an individual fall in love with the great outdoors again.

"It’s very hard to describe their faces and how much these sessions are well-loved. Patients are uplifted and eager to tell their fellow patients in the ward what they have learnt.”

Elsewhere in Denbighshire, Adran Caenog will use £6,400 to re-establish their Urdd youth group to provide young people from rural areas with a chance to socially interact, develop social skills and support wellbeing. 

RareQol Ltd of Corwen will use £10,000 to provide a community newsletter to promote wellbeing activities to negate the effects of Covid-19. 

And finally, Ruthin's Campfire Enterprise will use £9,790 to provide forest school sessions for families with children with disabilities to promote wellbeing and social interaction. 

Ruth Bates, Head of Communications at The National Lottery Community Fund in Wales, said: “These projects are excellent examples of how community groups and volunteers support the people who rely on them. National Lottery players raise £36 million each week for good causes throughout the UK. Last year we funded over 8,000 projects across the UK to bring communities together, over 7,500 supporting health and wellbeing. I hope this grant will enable the projects receiving funding this month to continue offering support to the people and communities who really need it, letting them continue to change lives.”