T&A cash giveaway: Nominate your favourite charity

Starting today (August 8) The Telegraph & Argus’ parent company’s charitable arm, The Gannett Foundation, is providing £128,000 to support local charities across eight regions - and we are delighted to have a £16,000 share to give away in our local area.

We’re asking readers to nominate their favourite local charities to be considered for a grant - as we want you to decide how the funding should be spent.

Don't miss your chance to nominate a worthy cause

Any person may nominate a charity, including a representative of the charity itself, but they should always give contact details for a representative of the nominated charity and a brief but clear explanation of how the money will be spent - such as a specific project or item of equipment, and how it will benefit the community.

How to make a nomination

Making a nomination couldn’t be easier - visit www.telegraphandargus.co.uk/readerschoice and fill in your nomination form by the closing date of Sunday, September 11, 2022.

You can also write to us, confirming the name and address of the charity you’d like to nominate and why, by the closing date, to: Newsquest, West Wing, New Hall, Bradford, BD5 8FF

Applications must include an explanation of how the money will be spent, how it will benefit the community and how the project will be completed if the grant does not cover the full costs.

Joanne Ellerton, from the Telegraph & Argus, with Mike Conway, of the Bradford Cinderella Club

Once all nominations have been received, our editor will select ten of the most deserving local charities to be featured in this year’s grants scheme. 

We’re then going to put the power to allocate the cash back into your hands – for four weeks, readers will be invited to collect tokens from our newspapers which can then be sent to collection points across our region or posted. 

Each token collected will then be used to allocate cash to the nominated charity – so if your favourite charity collects 50 per cent of all tokens collected, it will receive 50 per cent of the £16,000.

The criteria

Entries must be registered charities and must not have received a grant from the scheme within the last two years.

Grants will not be awarded for payments such as salaries, professional fees or day-to-day running or maintenance costs or projects that do not bring benefits to local communities.

Last year, the charities chosen from our district were the Bradford Cinderella Club and Jacqui’s Million.