Uniform cash in the bank
the school Bank West Lothian were awarded £20,000 by the people’s postcode Lottery trust.
this funding will allow the group to operate for another year and is enough to buy uniforms for 850 children.
It will also allow them to continue to employ their project coordinator and a summer worker to help deal with their successful sponsor a Child campaign.
the trust is a grant-giving charity funded by players of the people’s postcode Lottery.
the school Bank has grown since opening in 2016.
The School Bank West Lothian were awarded £20,000 by the People's Postcode Lottery. The cash will enable them to provide a school uniform for 800 children.
The funds were awarded through People's Postcode Trust, which is a grant-giving charity funded by players of the People's Postcode Lottery.
During the next year the school bank expect to support over 800 children by providing them with a school uniform pack.
This funding award will also allow themto continue to employ their project coordinator Collette Moran, and to run their annual Sponsor A Child campaign. In 2016the school bank became a registered charity and they have since grown very quickly. Treasurer Rachel Annand said: "I cannot over-estimate the importance ofthe grant awarded by The People's Postcode Trust, which will allow the project to continue to make a difference to so many child ren and their families in West Lothian over the next year. "This is our largest single year grantto date and is vital to us being able to continue to employ our part-time project coordinator:' School Bank West Lothian chair Kirstin Shemilt said: "The board of trustees are delighted to have been awarded this grant."