# Yorkshire Bank launches £150,000 Community Award Fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/07/17/yorkshire-bank-launches-150000-community-award-fund-2/
- Published: 2009-07-17T08:00:20+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Yorkshire Bank has announced a £150,000 fund to help support charities and community
groups across its heartland. The fund is part of the bank’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

 

The £150,000 fund will be used to make awards to projects in four categories – environment,
volunteering, education and regeneration.

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The winning entry in each category 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.

 

These awards are in addition to 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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