BLACKROD Sports and Community Centre has been awarded £10,000 to encourage creativity within the community in line with platinum Jubilee celebrations.

The grant has come out of the Let’s Create Jubilee Fund, gifted by Forever Manchester on behalf of the Arts Council’s to ensure creativity plays and important role in community celebrations for Her Majesty’s Jubilee celebrations.

The money will go towards paying for artist to come and work with school children, elderly people and people suffering with dementia to help them create artwork to help celebrate the occasion.

Children from primary schools will be creating visual artworks that will be displayed based on how the UK and Blackrod have changed since the Queen’s coronation.

As well as designing posters and pictures, they will also be creating poems and songs that represent the Queen and what she has done for the town and country.

They will also be encouraged to design congratulations cards that can be sent to the Queen to help her celebrate and commemorate the period.

Artists will work with groups from April through to the jubilee weekend, providing sessions and all the necessary materials.

The artists will also work with the older people and people living with dementia through the Blackrod Art Group and the centre’s activity groups.

All participants will be asked to focus on what the Queen means to them and what they believe are her greatest achievements.

David Holden-Locke, chief executive of the Blackrod Sports and Community Centre Charity, said: “We are delighted to be awarded this grant.

“It will allow us to deliver an amazing range of activities for the people of Blackrod and support existing groups in their Jubilee Celebrations.

“We are planning for an amazing Jubilee weekend and look forward to welcoming everyone to our centre as we lead the Jubilee celebrations in Blackrod.”

 The events will also include a play – ‘You’ve Never Had It So Good’, performed by On The Go Theatre Company – as well as an exhibition of the work, ending in a party for all participants and guests on Friday, June 3.

Made possible thanks to National Lottery and administered by UK Community Foundations including Forever Manchester on behalf of the Arts Council, the Let’s Create Jubilee Fund will support a huge range of projects throughout England.

Blackrod Sports and Community Centre is one of 44 community foundations have been awarding grants across the country.