YOUR favourite local paper is giving local charities the chance to take a share of a whopping £125k cash giveaway.
Our parent company’s charitable arm, The Gannett Foundation, is providing £125,000 in cash to support local charities across the country and we are delighted to have a £20,000 share to give away in our area.
And we want YOU to decide where this money should be spent.
Today we’re asking readers to nominate their favourite local charities to be considered for a grant.
Previous recipients of a charitable donation from the Gannett Foundation have included Wyre Forest Talking Newspaper, Survivors Worcester, a drop-in centre for people with mental health difficulties, Malvern Youth and Community Trust and Disability Sport Worcester.
Making a nomination couldn’t be easier – just click here and fill in your nomination form. Or you can write to us, confirming the name and address of the charity you’d like to nominate and why to: Readers’ Choice Cash For Charity Nominations, Rear First Floor Office, Redhill House, 227 London Road, Worcester WR5 2JG by the closing date of Sunday, October 3, 2021.
Once all nominations have been received, our editor will select eight of the most popular local charities to be featured in this year’s grants scheme.
We’re then going to put the power to allocate the cash back into the hands of our readers – for four weeks, readers will be invited to collect tokens from our newspapers which can then be sent to collection points across our region or posted.
Each token collected will then be used to allocate cash to the nominated charity – so if your favourite charity collects 50 per cent of all to tokens collected, it will receive 50 per cent of the £20,000!
Tell us here who you think deserves a share of £20,000.
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