# B&Q awards offer up to £10,000 to 40 organisations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/01/26/bampq-awards-offer-10000-40-organisations/
- Published: 2009-01-26T08:36:01+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**B&Q has announced this year’s community awards scheme, the One Planet Living® (
OPL) Awards. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, it is offering up to £10,000 of 
B&Q products to 40 projects around the UK, double the number it supported last year.**

Applicants need to demonstrate that their activities will support one of the following
themes:

* saving energy

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* nature conservation

* local culture and heritage

* grow your own

The awards aim to help communities work towards “One Planet Living®”.

Euan Sutherland, CEO, B&Q and Kingfisher UK Division, said: “Now in its second year,
the One Planet Living Awards are just one way in which B&Q is continuing to introduce
the idea of One Planet Living to its customers and their communities.

“By offering awards and supplying products to motivated local people in community
organisations, environmental groups, schools, charities and sports clubs, we help
to create sustainable communities for everyone to enjoy in the future.”

This year the B&Q OPL Awards will give £10,000 of B&Q products to one community 
group that shows how they will contribute significantly to working towards a one
planet way of living.

It will also give four awards of £5,000, and 35 awards of £2,000, to groups who 
demonstrate how they meet the above themes.

The closing date for entries is the 27th March 2009.

www.diy.com/awards