Eight local charities and community groups are sharing £6,500 from Bath Building Society’s Annual Charity Awards scheme.
Richard Ingle, chief executive of the society | Photo courtesy of Bath Building Society
The scheme was established in 2006 to support as many local initiatives as possible from the growing number of requests that the society receives each week asking for support.
Richard Ingle, chief executive of the society, said: “The Charity Awards are very important to us and a way for the society to ‘give something back’ to the local community.
“It is amazing the work some of these organisations and volunteers do and the local people that they help and on such little funding, I’m just glad we can help.
“I’d like to thank the judges for spending their time to help our team choose the winners – Alan Keeling, from the Rotary Club Bath, and Claire Wynne Hughes, from Quartet Community Foundation.
“It was tough to whittle down support to just eight charities, but we are happy to be supporting some incredible projects tackling very real issues in our community.”
The winners were:
- Oasis Bath (£1,500)
- Connect Bath (£1,000)
- Grow for Life (£1,000)
- Voices for Life (£1,000)
- Oldfield Park Infant School PTA (£500)
- Bath Foodbank (£500)
- Eddie’s Street Cuts (£500)
- SWAN Transport (£500)
