ELEVEN charities, including the Indee Rose Trust and the Peaceful Place, have benefited from a share of a £10,000 donation.

Homeless shelters, children with life-changing illnesses, young people with dementia and the elderly are among the various groups to receive a slice of the cash, which has been donated by Southend Airport’s community team and the Stobart Group.

Amy Such, from the London Southend Airport community team, which also donated £10,000 last year to Havens and Little Havens Hospices, Southend Hospital’s Keyhole Cancer Appeal and Turning Tides/SAVS, said: “We sought to benefit a wide range of local causes and have selected those which applied for specific items, for example wheelchairs, children’s gift boxes and certain courses of medical treatment, rather than those organisations who simply asked for money.”

The Disability Information Advice Line (DIAL) is one of the charities to benefit with£2,000. It will sponsor a specialised wheelchair with the money, which will be situated on Southend seafront and will enable disabled children to access the beach and lagoon areas safely.

Canvey Island’s Indee Rose Trust, which was set up in memory of Indee Rose Dopson, who died from a brain tumour in June 2009, aged three, will use the £500 donated to them to fund treasure boxes for children with brain tumours while Southend Hospital will use its £1,030 buy new furniture for patients and their relatives to use during treatment and when spending time in the Elizabeth Loury Cancer Ward Garden.

The hospital will also purchase a highly specialised chemotherapy treatment chair.

Rochford-based the Peaceful Place assists young people coping with dementia and will now be able to buy a lifting hoist for its minibus with £875 and the Storehouse in Southend will use the £500 it was given to provide essential support for poor and disadvantaged families living in the town.

The Project Shop in Westcliff was allocated £1,500 which will enable them to buy a pre-owned estate car, in which to transport tools, materials and plants as part of its service to help elderly people maintain their gardens.

Glyn Jones, chief executive of Stobart Aviation, said: “These latest charities are all great examples of the projects being run in the communities.

“I’m proud we can play our part in helping them continue their admirable and heartening work.”