More than £47,000 in lottery grants have been dished out to community groups and voluntary organisations in north Essex.

The Awards For All small grants scheme has given money to six lucky recipients across Colchester and Tendring.

Among those to benefit were Hamilton School Parent Staff Association, Colchester, which received £10,000, and Suffolk Spartans Powerlifting Club, Colchester, which received £4,321.

Friends of Tendring Primary School was awarded £9,400, Frobisher Nursery and Primary School, Clacton, got £9,879, and Clacton United Football Club was given £4,500.

Essex Inclusive Sport Enterprise, an organisation which seeks to include disabled people in sport, received £9,620.

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