# Yorkshire Bank launches £150,000 Community Award Fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/07/16/yorkshire-bank-launches-150000-community-award-fund/
- Published: 2009-07-16T19:20:26+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Yorkshire Bank is launching a £150,000 fund to help support charities and community
groups which focus on environment, volunteering, education and regeneration across
its heartland.

 

The winning entry in each of the four categories will receive the ‘Colonel Akroyd
Community Award’, named after the bank’s founder, plus £10,000. Four runners-up 
will receive a certificate plus £5,000. In addition to the main category awards,
there will be a further 20 awards of £1,000 to projects that are considered ‘highly
commendable’. There will also be an extra £10,000 award for the best overall entry.

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Dean Cutbill, director for Yorkshire Bank, said: “As an organisation founded on 
community principles, Yorkshire Bank is proud to mark 150 years of continued support
with these awards. And it is only right that the awards take their name from our
founder, Col. Akroyd, whose vision of a bank to support local communities we still
hold today.”

 

These special awards come on top of the existing support Yorkshire Bank provides
for community and charity groups through its charitable foundation, the Yorkshire
and Clydesdale Bank Foundation.

 

www.ybonline.co.uk/awards

 

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