BURY'S Sandcastle Trust is on the crest of a wave after receiving their latest lottery cash boost.

The mayor and mayoress, Coun Bill Johnson and his wife Joyce, were on hand to present the trust with a cheque for £13,527 on behalf of the lottery.

The money has come from the National Lotteries Charities Board, and is the third major cash boost for the trust this year.

The organisation, which provides holidays for people in the borough who for financial reasons would not be able to get away, were handed £4,300 by the lotteries board last August.

And their luck continued into March of this year when they received £1,400 from a forgotten council-run holiday home fund.

The latest handout means the trust has reeled in more than £19,000 in handouts this year.

Having previously been run by the WRVS for 20 years, the Sandcastle Trust was given charity status just two years ago.

Until recently there had been increasing doubts about its future.

But thanks to the third and biggest handout to date these problems can now be cast aside.