A LOCAL Girl Guide and widowed women in India are among the people being helped by Malvern Hills Lions Club in its latest round of grants.

At the club's most recent meeting, members agreed to pay out just under £2,200, raised by members' efforts, to support five good causes both close to home and further afield.

Among the recipients is Shannon Page, a Girl Guide who was allocated £50 to help her visit an international Scouts and Guides camp being led at Holland later in the year.

The club will also be paying out £1,185 to the Active Training and Education Trust, which will fund a stay by three Malvern children from disadvantaged backgrounds at a summer camp later this year.

£450 was allocated to fund equipment for children to attend a holiday organised by Malvern Salvation Army, plus a further £264 to buy three tents for the Salvation Army.

Another request, this time by the charity Kaleidoscope, resulted in a donation of £150 which will help a group of children with special needs attend a summer camp at Symonds Yat.

And the Lions also agreed to donate £100 to the Loomba Foundation, which provides sewing machines to widows in India to enable them to make a living.