East Kilbride News

Chance to win a £25k community grant for your group

- Andrea O’Neill

Groups in East Kilbride and Avondale could benefit from a community grant to the tune of £25,000.

Nomination­s are now being accepted for the OneFamily Community Awards which gives local projects the opportunit­y to secure a financial boost for a special project or initiative.

There are several categories – health; disability and social care; lifelong learning; active living; and community groups.

Each category will have eight winners with four projects receiving up to £5000; three projects winning up to £10,000 and one project scooping £25,000.

Part of the OneFamily Foundation, the awards scheme was created to give customers the opportunit­y to support their local community and the good causes in their area that matter to them and their families.

Karl Elliott, customer strategy director at OneFamily, said:“We’re urging our customers across Glasgow and Lanarkshir­e to get involved and nominate a good cause that could benefit from a financial grant.

“As we are owned by our customers, we want to do more than just provide great products.

“We want to help our customers, their families and the communitie­s where they live in other ways and our OneFamily Foundation enables us to do just that.

“The Community Awards are a big part of the foundation’s work and each year we give hundreds of thousands of pounds to projects close to our customers’hearts.

“In 2016, we touched the lives of more than 100,000 people through the awards, and this year we want to help even more – giving even more people and communitie­s the chance to get involved.”

Entries for the Community Awards will be accepted until Wednesday, July 19.

OneFamily customers can nominate their local project by visiting www. onefamily.com/yourfounda­tion/communitya­wards/

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United Kingdom