A YOUTH centre in a Teignbridge town has been awarded more than £100,000 of lottery funding.

Chudleigh Youth Centre was delighted to have been awarded a £110,472 grant from the National Lottery Community Fund.

This significant sum will support the centre’s vital work with young people from the town and surrounding communities across a period of five years.

It provides the charity with a strong financial base, enables continuity of its youth services over the medium term and will greatly assist in developing a positive impact for young people into the future.

This latest funding is the largest grant Chudleigh Youth Centre have received since it opened in July of the year 2000.

The funds will allow the centre to run a new, third youth session for juniors on Saturday mornings, which is hoped to start in October.

A spokesperson for the centre said: ‘We will also now have the resources to develop the curriculum for the two other youth sessions and to undertake some refurbishment work in the premises. 

‘We would like to thank everyone who has supported the National Lottery on a regular or occasional basis.’

‘Our local fund raising efforts and grant applications will continue to be vital as we need to match the funding provided by the National Lottery Community Fund over the next five years.’

National Lottery players raise more than £30 million each week for good causes throughout the UK.

Since the National Lottery began in 1994, £47 billion has been raised.