A SUPPORT service for young people has been awarded £325,000 from the National Lottery to help continue its work.

Teen Talk, in Harwich, said it was “over the moon” to have received the three year grant which it will use to carry on helping up to 1,000 individual young people between the ages of 11 and 25 each year.

The group specialises in helping people sort out their anxieties and self-belief ranging from exam stress or pressure at school to problems like bullying.

Teen Talk needs about £250,000 a year to fund its services but it has become increasingly difficult to find funding sources.

A Teen Talk spokesman said: “This new lottery grant is extremely helpful as it will provide about 40 per cent of the money we need but if Teen Talk is going to carry on helping for the next 21 years and finding new and exciting ways of helping make Harwich a great place for children to grow up it needs to find new ways of raising the money it needs.”

He added: “Teen Talk is vital for so many of our teenagers and young people so to make sure we can carry on our lifeline we would like to ask the people of Harwich to help.”