Gannett Foundation Cash for Charities 2021

Our parent company’s charitable arm, The Gannett Foundation, is providing £125,000 in cash to support local charities across the country and we are delighted to have a £20,000 share to give away in our area.

And we asked you to decide where this money should be spent.

You nominated in your thousands and our editorial team chose a shortlist of eight charities from these nominations that will share in the £20,000.

Rogerstone-based Sparkle was one of the charities nominated.

It supports children and young people with disabilities and/or developmental difficulties, and their families, living in Gwent.

Sparkle would like to create a woodland walk within the grounds of Serennu Children’s Centre, at High Cross, providing a variety of opportunities for Sparkle children and the local community to engage in outside activities, explore nature in a safe and accessible environment and learn about animals and the environment.

Helping Caring Team, which is based in Oakdale, provides an outreach service for people experiencing homelessness. It also runs a food bank providing food parcels, toiletries and cleaning products.

It is looking for help for the food bank in order to continue delivering parcels to vulnerable people.

The other charities nominated for the Wales and West region are:

• Motion Control Dance, Barry;
• St Giles Animal Rescue, Taunton;
• Phoenix Bereavement Support, Hereford;
• Ethos - @ The Living Room, Hereford;
• 2 Wish Unit 7, Magden Park, Llantrisant;
• Chard and District Museum, Chard.

Now we are putting the power to allocate the cash back into the hands of our readers – during November, you are 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 to tokens collected, it will receive 50 per cent of the £20,000.

Collection points in Gwent can be found at:

• South Wales Argus' Newport city centre office, Chartist Tower, Upper Dock Street, Newport;
• Bellevue Stores, Cardiff Road and Mendelgeif Road, Newport;
• AJS Stores, Pentonville, Newport;
• Premier Express, Church Road, Maindee, Newport;
• Ed Logan Stores, Ed Logan Way, Croesyceiliog, Cwmbran;
• Pontypool Post Office, Osbourne Road, Pontypool;
• Co-op, West End Shopping Centre, Newport Road, Caldicot;
• WH Smith, 16 High Street, Chepstow.

Newsquest terms and conditions will apply where relevant to the grants process; visit www.newsquest.co.uk/prize-competition-rules Personal data will be used by Newsquest and its agents solely for the administration of the grants process and will not be shared with any third party; our general privacy notice is at: www.newsquest.co.uk/privacy-policy. This campaign will be published in multiple Newsquest publications across this Newsquest region. The eight charities chosen by the local editorial panel will be voted for by our readers. The value of the grant awarded to each of the eight charities will be calculated pro rata according to their share of the vote. Only original voting coupons will be accepted, no photocopies. The cash grants will be sent by BACS transfer. Grants are conditional on completion of the relevant project and a successful nominee charity may be required to evidence its use of the grant. The top eight charities selected for the vote will be contacted to provide additional information for entry into the readers’ vote; should this information not be provided within the timescale provided then the editorial panel will select an alternative charity. The charity must be registered with the Charities Commission and have not received a grant from the Gannett Foundation in the last two years.