Nine innovative childcare projects in Northern Ireland were last week awarded grants of more than 400,000 by the New Opportunities Fund under its Building Quality Childcare programme. The projects include a new family centre in Ballycastle, which will be enabled to incorporate an existing Irish language pre-school childcare and toddler facility in a new building and provide after-school childcare. In Newtownabbey, near Belfast, the charity SENSE - the National Deafblind and Rubella Association - has been awarded 70,975 to extend its special needs care and expand its premises.
Nine innovative childcare projects in Northern Ireland were last week awarded grants of more than 400,000 by the New Opportunities Fund under its Building Quality Childcare programme. The projects include a new family centre in Ballycastle, which will be enabled to incorporate an existing Irish language pre-school childcare and toddler facility in a new building and provide after-school childcare. In Newtownabbey, near Belfast, the charity SENSE - the National Deafblind and Rubella Association - has been awarded 70,975 to extend its special needs care and expand its premises.
