Basingstoke Gazette is giving local charities the chance to bag a share of a huge £16,000 cash giveaway.

It could be that you volunteer or work for a charity, or you may just want to support your favourite local charity by nominating it for a share of the £16,000 cash we’re making available to support great local courses.

Making a nomination couldn’t be easier – simply log-on to basingstokegazette.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, 5 Upper Brook St, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8AL by the closing date of Sunday, September 11, 2022.

READ MORE: The Safe from Basingstoke wins grants

Once all nominations have been received, our editor will select 10 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 to tokens collected, it will receive 50 per cent of the £16,000!

Last year, Basingstoke charity The Safe had won a share of the cash grants from the Gazette.

The Safe, based in Winchester Street at The Top of Town, won £217.68 after getting 50 votes.

SEE ALSO: The Chequers at Eversley Cross given £100,000 revamp

The £16,000 cash is being provided by our parent company’s charitable arm, The Gannett Foundation. This year the Gannett Foundation will donate £128,000 to charities across the country.

Qualifying Criteria

  • Applicants must be registered charities.
  • Applicants must not have received a grant from us within the last two years
  • Preference to be given to projects supporting those in our communities who are overlooked or under-served.

Grants will not be awarded for:

  • Salaries, professional fees or day-to-day running or maintenance costs of the charity (but this does not exclude such expenses where essential to a specific project)
  • General appeals as opposed to specific projects or items of equipment
  • Projects that do not bring benefits to our local communities
  • Political or religious objectives, or projects that discriminate in favour of particular ethnic or religious groups (but this does not exclude religious organisations offering charitable support to the sick or needy without discrimination)
  • State or privately run schools (other than special needs)
  • Hospitals (other than hospices)
  • Community Interest Companies that are not registered charities

Newsquest terms and conditions will apply where relevant to the grants process; please visit http://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:   http://www.newsquest.co.uk/privacy-policy.  This campaign will be published in multiple Newsquest publications across this Newsquest region.  The 10 charities chosen by the local editorial panel will be voted for by our readers. The value of the grant awarded to each of the 10 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 10 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.

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