COMMUNITY mental health organisation BAND has opened a new Internet suite at the Victoria Halls, on Knowsley Street.

The group, in partnership with the church, will be able to offer support and training from the new facility called Band.it with workstations for up to five people to use.

The project's organisers have applied for funding from the Learning Skills Council to provide new equipment for the suite and is appealing to anyone with computers they no longer use to donate them to Band.it. BAND, the Bolton Association and Network of Drop-ins, is hoping to open the centre three days a week.

For more information, contact Stuart Thorp or Ruth Haigh on 01204 397976.