A CHARITY has received a financial boost from a supermarket.

Home-Start Pendle and Ribble Valley, based in Nelson, enjoyed a summer of fun after being granted £1,000 from Asda Colne through the Asda Foundation’s new Healthy Holiday Fund, which aims to fight holiday hunger.

The not-for-profit organisation recruit and train volunteers, who are usually parents themselves, to visit families at home and offer them informal, friendly and confidential support.

The donation enabled the charity to fund several extracurricular activities and holiday clubs using the in-store community room such as finger painting, arts, crafts and clay building.

Diane Springthorpe, the community colleague at Asda Colne, said: “We understand that families can find it difficult to entertain children over the holidays and sometimes find the increased cost of catering for their children a challenge, so we hope that our Healthy Holiday Fund, by enabling local charities to hold more children’s events, eased some of the pressure.”