Yorkshire Bank’s community awards open for applications
Melanie May | 16 February 2016 | News
Yorkshire Bank is seeking community projects across the UK to share £75,000 in its fourth annual Spirit of the Community Awards.
The awards recognise and support community projects that are going the extra mile in one of three categories: projects which help people to have a healthy relationship with money, projects which help people to improve their local environment and projects which help people into employment.
Yorkshire Bank will award £75,000 in total, selecting five projects in each of the three categories, and awarding each winner £5,000. Yorkshire Bank’s sister organisation, Clydesdale Bank will also award £75,000 to support local projects in Scotland as part of the programme.
For further information or to enter, people can visit www.ybonline.co.uk/foundation or go into their local Yorkshire Bank branch to receive an application form. The closing date for applications is Friday 8 April 2016 with the winners announced in the summer.
Debbie Crosbie, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks’ chief operating officer and chair of the Yorkshire and Clydesdale Bank Foundation, said:
“Yorkshire Bank’s Spirit of the Community Awards aim to recognise and support the vital contribution that voluntary and charitable projects make to their local communities. It has been inspiring to see all of the fantastic work being carried out at grass roots level over the past three years and to see the difference our support can make to projects which provide such vital resources for local communities.”
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