Church project will benefit family life; PARENTS AND YOUNGSTERS LOOKING FORWARD TO REDEVELOPMENT.(News)

From: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) | Date: January 2, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: SAMANTHA NANDA

AN ISOLATED community on the outskirts of Nuneaton has been given funding to set up parenting programmes.

A pounds 47,000 project will redevelop Ridge Lane Methodist Church, Ridge Lane Village, so it can be used to set up a Sure Start scheme for local parents and toddlers.

Alistair Rigby, community partnership officer, explained: "The Sure Start programme is a government initiative to provide classes on how to be a good paren...