The mobile skateboard project will target young people in rural areas

Alnwick District Council has been awarded �60,961 for a mobile skateboard park which will tour rural villages.

A grant of �90,000 will go to Durham Sporting Club to encourage children and parents to take up a sport.

Newcastle City Council has been awarded �70,750 to increase participation of people with disabilities in sport.

Increase participation

The funding was announced on Tuesday by the Big Lottery Fund and Sport England and is part of �12.6m which will go to causes throughout the country.

The mobile skateboard park project in Alnwick specifically targets young people in rural villages who often complain of nothing to do and find it difficult to travel to recreational activities because of distance, poor transport links and the cost of travel.

The �70,750 awarded to Newcastle City Council will go to the Accessible Networks programme.

It will help fund a disability leisure coordinator, together with a development budget, to increase participation of people with disabilities in sport and leisure.