A Swindon charity is to receive a share of a £2.5million Lottery grant.

Swindon Children's Scrap-store has been awarded more than £70,000 to help pay for eight full and part-time members of staff.

The grant will go towards the cost of their salaries over a three-year period.

The Scrapstore's aims are social, environmental and educational and can be described as making waste things into playthings.

For more than 15 years, the Swindon Children's Scrap-store has been supplying schools, community groups and other charities with everything from craft supplies to toys, CD roms and off-cuts of wood.

Staff collect clean, reusable waste from the business community and take it back to the store where it is sorted and displayed.

Member groups then visit the Scrapstore at the Pinehurst People's Centre and select the items they need.

n Shaw Trust, based in Trowbridge, will also benefit from a Lottery grant. It will receive more than £140,000 towards training facilities at Palmer Gardens.

The garden centre is to develop a catering unit where disabled people can learn new skills and study for qualifications to enable them to move into the open workplace.