South Wales Argus Give Me Five Shortlist
By admin
Issued on behalf of the Principality Building Society
THREE special community projects have been shortlisted for the £5,000 South Wales Argus-Principality Give Me Five award.
They were among more than 50 projects from all over South Wales put forward for the cash award offered up by Wales’ largest building society.
The three shortlisted by the Principality judging panel are the Cwmbran Rugby Football Club Community Sports Initiative, the Friends of Newbridge Memorial Hall restoration project, and the Monmouthshire, Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Trust.
The Cwmbran RFC initiative aims to bring a variety of sports activities for both sexes, young and old to the community – a scheme that will develop and grow when the club moves in to a new stadium in 2009.
The Friends of Newbridge Memorial Hall charity is looking for funding to help finance the refurbishment of the first floor function room as part of a major restoration project of the unique art deco building.
If the Monmouthshire, Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Trust is successful, the award would provide funding for equipment for the Fourteen Locks Canal and Community Centre to be used for a variety of community activities and by visiting schools and researchers.
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 shortlisted for the Argus-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 South Wales Argus-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 South Wales Argus-Principality Give Me Five awards can be found on the Principality website at www.principality.co.uk/givemefive .
