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A chance meeting with a talented local artist and the generous gift of much-needed funding has enabled the Christchurch-based Water Lily Project to launch a series of creative art sessions. The charity, which helps vulnerable local women get back to independent living, is running socially-distanced sessions to help its beneficiaries, many of whom struggle with mental-health issues as the isolation of this third lockdown takes its toll. The courses are being funded thanks to The Smallwood Trust, which has been helping women on low incomes since 1886, in conjunction with the National Lottery Community Fund. Liz Carter, manager at The Water Lily Project, said: “We’ve always wanted to run creative art sessions for the women we support but needed the funding. Once we got a grant, thanks to the amazing Smallwood Trust and National Lottery Community Fund, we needed an artist to run the courses for us but where to find one during lockdown? ....