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Spar unveils £100k Community Cashback winners The scheme, which launched in April, received more than 4,000 applications during the application process.
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par has revealed the winners of the UK-wide £100,000 Community Cashback scheme launched in April. Consumers from across the UK applied for a grant for an organisation they felt deserved funding, by sharing the exceptional contribution they have made to their community and what the grant would be put towards. More than 4,000 applications were received during the process, which ran from 14 April – 4 May. The scheme has awarded 30 grants - 5 x £10,000, 5 x £5,000, 5 x £2,000, and 15 x £1,000 - to local voluntary or community organisations from all regions across the UK. The five worthy winners of £10,000 are: ● Voluntary organisation Northumbria Blood Bikes that provides a vital out-of-hours transportation service to the NHS and transport anything
Guy Swindell: staff appreciation
from blood to baby milk and equipment through to medication across
backpack filled with new clothing,
the entire Northeast area.
comfort, and personal care items
● Stoke & Staffordshire Downs
that they can call their own.
Syndrome Social Group offers
● Woodlanders Pre-school which
children and adults with Downs
provides early years care and edu-
Syndrome a safe, fun, and socia-
cation to children in Ashburton
ble place to meet with others who have Downs Syndrome.
and the surrounding area in Devon ● Community Rescue Service pro-
● West Dunbartonshire-based Bags
vides all aspects of search and
Full of Love that aims to pro-
rescue operated by volunteers
vide every child entering foster
from communities across North-
and kinship care receive a new
ern Ireland.
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Suzanne Dover, Spar UK Brand and Marketing Director, said: “Our Spar stores around the UK believe in nurturing their neighbourhoods and supporting the communities they serve, and we are delighted to be able to supplement their local efforts with this national campaign. “Times are tough for charity and support groups who are looking to fundraise at the moment, and it is great that the £100,000 Community Cashback scheme can provide deserving local organisations with some extra financial help at this time.”
