The 1.3m given to 16 out-of-school projects creating 1,344 childcare places means that in four years the NOF has invested more than 9.2m and provided 13,800 childcare places across Northern Ireland. The last awards have gone to projects in Belfast, Armagh, Omagh, Fermanagh, Cookstown, Coleraine, Ballymoney and Craigavon.
Last week the NOF also announced grants totalling just over 567,000 to improve facilities for pre-school children. This first award is under the auspices of the Building Quality Childcare programme, which will invest Pounds 6m of lottery money in supporting the capital costs of projects aiming to meet the needs of mainly pre-school children.
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