Organisations in Beer and Colyford are among five to benefit from more than £17,500 of funding from East Devon District Council's Community Buildings Fund.

The latest successful projects to benefit from the fund include Beer Albion Football Club, which will receive £3,500 to help pay for a viewing area for sports activities, community events and for private hire events; and Colyford Memorial Hall, which will receive £4,611.68 to help replace the floor, which is beyond further repair.

Others to benefit include Exton Village Hall, Newton Poppleford Pavilion, and West Hill Royal British Legion Hall.

The Community Building Fund is an East Devon District Council grants scheme that has been running for over 14 years. It helps fund projects for village halls, community buildings and community shops by offering grants of anything up to £5,000.

Community buildings and community shops that are within an area covered by a town council are not eligible to apply.

The scheme's purpose is to help rural community buildings and community shops all around East Devon with funding for projects such as new or improved toilet facilities, kitchen facilities, roof repairs, heating and new door fixtures.

Councillor Jack Rowland, East Devon District Council chair of the Community Grants Panel, said: "On behalf of the EDDC Community Grants Panel we were pleased to support these applications as they all demonstrated exactly the reasons why these grants were made available.

"In these particularly difficult times it is vitally important that facilities such as these are maintained and improved in readiness for the time when the communities can make full use of them again."

To find out more and apply online visit eastdevon.gov.uk/grants-and-funding/grants-available-from-us/community-buildings-fund

The next closing date for applications is 9am on Monday March 15 2021. This is the second closing date this financial year.

Although the fund is open to new applications, the council only has a maximum of £2,187.56 left to give out.