New set of awards made by CLA Charitable Trust

The CLA Charitable Trust has made a string of new awards.

The grants will allow children from two special schools in Worcestershire to visit the Trust’s Education Centre, provide a children’s "hand-cycle" in Rochdale, buy tack for a heavy horse ridden by the disabled, contribute to the cost of a horse box near Devizes, and help to landscape a nature reserve in a deprived part of the Reading.

The awards in detail are:

• Worcestershire Wildlife Trust, Worcester, £2,500 from funds raised in Worcestershire towards the cost of a three-year project for visits to the Trust’s Education Centre by children from two special schools. The visits will give instruction in food production, conservation, horticulture and wildlife appreciation,

• Rochdale Special Needs Cycling Club, Rochdale: £1,250 to buy a child’s hand-cycle for this club which uses bicycles to give disabled and underprivileged children educational rides in the countryside,

• Kennet Valley Riding for the Disabled Group, Devizes: This group has bought a new, heavier horse to replace a small pony. The French

Comtois will be more suitable for heavier wheelchair customers. The grant of

£2,800 is for new tack and equipment,

• Barrow Farm Group, Riding and Driving for the Disabled, Chelmsford:

The CLA Charitable Trust grant of £5,000 will complete the fundraising efforts of the group to generate £20,000 to buy a new horsebox for transporting horses to competitions, to the vet and to publicity events such as school visits, and

• Trees for Cities, London: A grant of £2,000 for planting whips to landscape the organisation’s new Lower Southcote Nature Reserve in a deprived part of Reading. The Reserve will be used to educate disadvantaged youngsters in horticulture and conservation.