A total of £400,000 will be spent on helping children in Wiltshire who live in rural areas of disadvantage.
Salisbury, Chippenham, Trowbridge and Amesbury will receive £100,000 each from the Wiltshire Children's Fund.
The Wiltshire Children and Young People's Services Partnership, which manages the Wiltshire Children's Fund, has identified areas of need in each location after a careful process of consultation and analysis.
Funding will start next April and the money will enable local partnerships of voluntary and statutory groups in each area to implement new and creative responses to children's needs and make sure they are not excluded from society.
The Children's Fund is part of the government's strategy to tackle poverty and disadvantage.
Consultation with children in each of the areas will begin this month and they will get the chance to put forward their own ideas on what can be done to make things better.
Local reference groups will be set up to work on priorities and plans for action. The aim is to build on community strengths to find long-term, sustainable solutions that children and their communities feel work best for them.
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