An £8,720 lottery grant will help kit out Steeton’s newly-built Community Hub.

The cash will pay for kitchen units, tables and about 50 chairs for the £200,000 community building.

It will also pay for folding doors so the main function room can be split into two smaller meeting rooms.

Keighley job training organisation Confianza has also benefited from the latest round of grants from the Big Lottery Fund.

Confianza, which specialises in training for people with mental health issues and learning difficulties, has received £9,700.

The organisation, based at Central Hall in Keighley, will spend its grant on IT equipment and providing training in catering, hospitality and retail.

Both grants are part of a £110, 000 payout for community groups in Bradford district from the lottery’s Awards For All programme.

The Community Hub, which is due to open early in the New Year, is the brainchild of Steeton with Eastburn Parish Council. Council funding and a range of grants – totalling £200,000 – paid for the building’s construction but did not leave enough to fit out the rooms.

Council chairman David Mullen said: “We had to take things out of our budget. We ended up with just a shell.”

Coun Mullen said the council had applied to several sources for cash to buy essential equipment, and the lottery grant was the first successful response.

The Hub will soon be officially handed to the council by the contractors, but it is unlikely to be ready to use until the New Year.

The Community Hub recently attracted negative comments from some residents due to its size and appearance, with one describing it as an industrial depot.

And members of Steeton’s Bowling Club, who have been offered space in the Hub, have complained because the old bowling pavilion is being demolished as part of the project.