The grants have been awarded under the Building Quality Childcare programme, which is investing 6m in supporting the capital costs of projects across Northern Ireland. Breidge Gadd, NOF board member in Northern Ireland, said the grants were 'paving the way for the creation of new childcare places by investing in much-needed buildings and play facilities'.
She added that the Building Quality Childcare programme was 'enabling communities to make a real difference to the lives of parents and children across Northern Ireland'.
The largest single grant, at just over 106,000, has gone to the Larne Community Care Centre, based in Antiville, an area of high deprivation and social exclusion. The funding will enable the centre, which opened in 1998, to convert two playrooms into one large room, with a mother and toddler area, and provide community creches, training rooms, homework facilities and staff rooms on the building's first and second floors.
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