Applications Flying in for Give Me Five Award
By admin
Issued on behalf of the Principality Building Society
CLUBS for the young and elderly, and a charity offering help and support for young victims of bullying are lining up for a special £5,000 community hand-out this summer.
Pant & Dowlais Boys’ and Girls’ Club, Treorchy Senior Citizens Club and the Cardiff-based Bullies Out charity have applied for the South Wales Echo-Principality Give Me Five award.
All three organisations are among the first to apply for the Give Me Five treasure chest being offered to community groups and charities.
Pant & Dowlais Boys’ and Girls’ Club in Merthyr is looking for the £5,000 to buy a digital karaoke singing machine, a pool table, dance mat and a TV and DVD for a new meeting room that is being renovated and due to open in November.
Formed 20 years ago, the club provides a place where young people can develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacity to prepare them for an active and positive role in the community.
The youth club is continuing to make a huge difference to the local community with the anti-social behaviour rate in the Dowlais Ward down by 80 per cent in the last 12 months But without funding to expand there’s a fear they may have to start turning young people away.
Treorchy Senior Citizens Club was established in the 1950s and aims to promote the welfare of the elderly within the Rhondda community. The group has asked for £5,000 to redecorate their hall, which hasn’t been decorated for around 25 years, to enable more events and social functions to take place.
The Cardiff-based Bullies Out charity offers help, support and information to children and young people suffering from bullying. The group is looking for the Give Me Five award to provide peer mentoring training to schools and youth organisations, and to launch an on-line support system to educate people on the effects of bullying and reduce the feeling of isolation a sufferer may feel.
Interest in the Give Me Five award has also come from community groups in Caerphilly, Bridgend, Penarth and Barry which are preparing their own applications.
Designed to help community organisations and charities make a real difference to the communities they serve, the Give Me Five campaign aims to give groups the chance to kick-start, complete or continue the good work of a worthwhile project close to the needs of its community.
The £5,000 award for the region covered by the Echo is one of five similar awards being given away this summer across Wales and the Borders by Principality Building Society to mark Principality’s achievement in reaching the significant milestone of £5 billion in assets.
Principality chief executive Peter Griffiths said: “We are delighted with the swift and positive response to the launch of the Give Me Five campaign in the South Wales Echo. The newspaper’s readers are already grasping the opportunity to apply for the £5,000 award on behalf of a local community group or charity, and we would encourage as many as possible to do so.
“The South Wales Echo-Principality Give Me Five £5,000 award will be given to a clearly-defined project which is making – or will make – a difference to the people within its community. It needs to be full of life, close to the community it serves, meets a defined need and is innovative.”
So, if you are involved in a project – or you benefit from or just know of one – that could do with a £5,000 injection of support to make a big difference to your community, then apply today for the South Wales Echo-Principality Give Me Five award.
Nominations can be made by filling in the form alongside and we’ll send you an application form; or you can download a form from the Principality website at www.principality.co.uk/givemefive; call Give Me Five awards co-ordinator Pat Ashman on Cardiff 029 2077 3318; or pick up an application form at any Principality Building Society branch. The closing date for applications is September 14, 2007.
