An Axminster healthy eating charity has been awarded nearly £18,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund.

Project Food - formerly the HALFF charity in South Street - will use the grant to continue to finance the support given to local residents during the Civid-19 crisis.

The money will be spent on delivering food sessions online, including free tablets to access the information, and the delivery of fruit and vegetable boxes around East Devon.

Project Food also cook and delivery hundreds of ready meals for people who are unable to cook for themselves and also keep in regular touch with people who live alone and those who suffer with anxiety.

Every week the charity also delivers fruit and veg boxes and home-made meals to a local women's refuge for those escaping domestic violence.