After-school, breakfast and holiday clubs at nurseries, community centres and playgroups are set to benefit from more than 2.9m - Scotland's share of nearly 36m in lottery cash handed out to projects throughout the UK.
Beverley Francis, NOF director in Scotland, announced the awards at the Jack and Jill Nursery in the Possil Park district of Glasgow, which received more than 50,000 to create new out- of-school childcare places for 48 children between the ages of five and 12.
She said, 'The service that's to be created here will mean children having the same place to go before school starts and after school finishes while their parents are still at work or in education. This is about offering new solutions to traditional problems.'
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