Groups across Clydebank and Milngavie Receive Over £335,000 in National Lottery Community Funding

That the Parliament commends six organisations across the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency for securing £338,972 from the National Lottery Community Fund; understands that Dalmuir-based charity, Bags Full of Love, received £9,552 to continue funding the rental of its premises and to provide support for children going into foster care with a bag full of home comforts; further understands that Clydebank Housing Association Ltd secured £96,906 to help create a Hardship Support Worker post, which will support local people to become more resilient and better able to sustain their housing tenancy; believes that Clydesider Creative Ltd received a £31,578 grant to gather local people to help co-produce friendly, accessible information resources that will help people to claim the welfare benefits that they may be entitled to; recognises that Improving Lives received £22,500 to continue employing a Lead Advisor that will help its clients with issues around welfare rights, as well as cover rent for its office; understands that Kinship Care West Dunbartonshire was given £14,000 to enable the group to move into a vacant floor in the building that it currently occupies, affording it better privacy and more rooms in which to offer its services; recognises Old Kilpatrick Food Parcels, which received £164,436 in order to fund a community training and life skills centre in the village of Old Kilpatrick, and congratulates all staff and volunteers who have helped to secure these vital grants and who, it believes, also work tirelessly to make their local community a better place.