A PROJECT to create a community network for lesbian, gay bi-sexual and transgender people across Lancashire has received a £450,000 boost.

Supporters of the Lancashire LGBT have been given the award, over three years, by the Big Lottery’s Researching Communities Fund. 

The Isaac Hitchin Project will see a team of four workers train volunteers countywide to support their own gay and lesbian communities.

Debs Bradshaw, the centre’s head, said: “This project is a massive achievement which has been a long time in coming.