TO mark the launch of your bigger and better Star, we are giving charities in the borough the chance to take a share of a £125,000 cash giveaway.

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

And we want YOU to decide where this money should be spent.

Today we’re asking readers to nominate their favourite local charities to be considered for a grant. 

Making a nomination couldn’t be easier – simply log on to sthelensstar.co.uk/readerschoice and fill in your nomination form or you can write to us, confirming the name and address of the charity you’d like to nominate and why, to: Readers’ Choice Cash For Charity Nominations, Paula Jones, Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Deeside Print Centre, Zone 3, 10th Avenue, Deeside Industrial Estate, Flintshire, CH5 2UA by the closing date of Sunday, October 3, 2021.
Once all nominations have been received, our team will select eight of the most popular local charities from the region to be featured in this year’s grants scheme. 

We’re then going to put the power to allocate the cash back into the hands of our readers – 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 the tokens collected, it will receive 50 per cent of the £20,000.

Star editor Andrew Kilmurray said: “We know how incredibly difficult the coronavirus pandemic has been for charities across the town and how much they rely on grant funding, and the generosity of others, to be able to continue their vital work.

“We hope as many readers as possible will get on board and show support for the charities and their dedicated teams who work tirelessly to help others.”

Anyone can nominate a charity, including a representative of the charity itself, but please be sure to provide contact details for the nominated charity and a brief but clear explanation of how the money would be spent.

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Terms and conditions

NEWSQUEST terms and conditions will apply where relevant to the grants process; please visit 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 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 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 given, 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.