Daily Post Give Me Five Shortlist
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Issued on behalf of the Principality Building Society
THREE special community projects have been shortlisted for the £5,000 Daily Post-Principality Give Me Five award.
They were among more than 40 projects from the North Wales area put forward for the cash award offered up by Wales’ largest building society.
The three shortlisted by the Principality judging panel are Cwmni Cydweithredol Cymunedol Tafarn Y Fic project in Llithfaen, near Pwllheli, Henllan Football Club in Denbigh, and the Plas Madoc Communities First charity in Wrexham.
Cwmni Cydweithredol Cymunedol Tafarn Y Fic aims to keep the local pub open as a working community centre, providing a wide variety of entertainment, events and Welsh language courses for all ages. The project fears that as the local shop has closed and the future of the Post Office in the village is uncertain, there is no other community centre in the village.
Henllan Football Club plans to provide a community-based football club open to all the residents of the village and the surrounding area, as well as extending and landscaping the park to enable the club to improve the area for the benefit of the local community.
Plas Madoc Communities First charity project is looking for the £5,000 award to form a Plas Madoc children’s sports club to increase access to sport for the young people of Plas Madoc and surrounding areas in Wrexham.
The shortlisted three were among more than 150 applications received from all over Wales as part of a £25,000 Give Me Five giveaway to community organisations and charities in five separate regions to help celebrate Principality’s achievement in reaching the milestone of more than £5 billion in assets.
Designed to help community projects and charities make a real difference to the communities they serve, the Give Me Five treasure chest was offered by Principality 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 three projects shortlisted for the Daily Post-Principality Give Me Five Award will now be considered by the judging panel, with the final winner of the £5,000 award announced by the end of November.
Principality chief executive Peter Griffiths said: The sheer volume and quality of applications we received is testament to the success of the Daily Post-Principality Give Me Five award.
“It proved difficult enough to narrow down the entries to the three we have now shortlisted. We now have the unenviable job of having to decide between those three for the final winner who will receive the £5,000 award.”
Details of the Daily Post-Principality Give Me Five awards can be found on the Principality website at www.principality.co.uk/givemefive .
