TWO Suffolk causes are celebrating today after being given a lottery grant to help take their work forward.

TWO Suffolk causes are celebrating today after being given a lottery grant to help take their work forward.

Ipswich's Birth Trauma Association will get £7,945 while Film at Fram, which shows movies in Framlingham, has been handed £1,367.

The Lottery Awards for All programme saw a total of £324,034 going to 49 groups across the East of England.

The scheme is administered by the Big Lottery Fund on behalf of Arts Council England, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England.

It makes awards of between £300 and £10,000 to grass-roots community groups and voluntary organisations.

Jonathan Clark, Big Lottery Fund head of region for the East of England said: “The sheer diversity of projects sharing in well over £300,000 in this month's round of Lottery grants is terrific.

“From anniversary celebrations to sports initiatives to charities and community groups securing much needed funding, countless people in the East of England will really benefit.”