A NORTH Hampshire charity has expressed its delight after receiving a grant for more than £10,000 from a lottery. The Basingstoke and Alton Cardiac Rehabilitation Charity - also known as Cardiac Rehab - has been given £11,730 by the Postcode Neighbourhood Trust, a charity funded solely by players of People s Postcode Lottery. The grant will enable Cardiac Rehab, which offers support to patients across Hampshire and parts of Surrey, to meet the demand for their classes, in light of changes and increased costs to make the centre Covid-secure. CEO Sarah Quarterman said: “Supervised, tailored exercise programmes are proven to increase fitness levels, reduce weight, waist size and blood pressure and improve wellbeing.
A COMMUNITY arts and sport centre in Bishops Castle has had an early Christmas present. SpArC has been awarded a grant from Postcode Neighbourhood Trust, a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery. It comes at the end of a year of severe disruption and loss of income because of enforced closures. The venue applied for support in the summer to enable it to run the theatre at a greatly reduced capacity, to comply with social distancing rules during this pandemic. The Theatre recovery Project will run until March 2021. Now the venue aims to have events every week, with a reduced socially distanced audience capacity of around 40, compared with a usual maximum of 140.