Hollow Lane Club celebrates Lottery Success

The Hollow Lane Club, based at Ellen Tinkham School in Exeter, has been awarded over £100,000 of lottery funding. The award, which runs for three years, will help fund an annual Summer Club as well as regular After School and Saturday sessions for children with physical and learning disabilities in Devon.

Chair of the Hollow Lane Club Trustees, Nicki Christmas, said "Everyone connected with the Hollow Lane Club is absolutely thrilled with the Big Lottery Fund grant. Whilst everyone is feeling the current financial pressures, it is even harder for the families of our Club members to be able to access the haven that we can give them in their challenging lives. As many clubs like ours are struggling or even ceasing to survive, the grant means that our future is now safeguarded until 2016, for which our members and their families are hugely grateful and we, as Trustees and staff, are overjoyed to be able to continue to provide such a valuable service."

Every year over 120 children with special needs access The Hollow Lane Club, which organises a very wide range of activities including day trips out, canoeing, swimming, artists’ residencies and workshops. The Hollow Lane Summer Club starts on 31 July.