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Sport Relief: Win your share of £62,000
Cash-strapped community groups are in line for a much-needed windfall thanks to your YEP and Sport Relief.
We've teamed up to offer clubs and groups the chance to get their hands on a share of 62,500.
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Whether its new kit and equipment or a festival to bring your community together, the money is up for grabs for grassroots organisations.
Groups can apply for grants of anything between 500 and 1,000 and the giveaway is open to small, locally based community groups or organisations working in areas of disadvantage.
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The average income of the group needs to be under 50,000 a year and each group can only apply for one grant.
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YEP editor Paul Napier said: "This is a great chance for small organisations and groups across the region to get hold of much-needed money that could make a real difference."
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The Community Cash fund has come from money raised through Sport Relief, which brings together the worlds of sport and entertainment to raise money for vulnerable people in the UK and the world's poorest countries.
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At the heart of the campaign is the Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile, with people getting sponsored to walk, run or complete their mile in fancy dress up and down the country on Sunday March 21.
Leeds will be hosting its own event in Victoria Gardens, and YEP readers can enter now at www.sportrelief.com.
From today, groups can apply for a Sport Relief Community Cash grant on our website at www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk or fill in the form printed on page 29 and send it to Leeds Community Foundation, 51a St Paul's Street, Leeds LS1 2TE
Starting next week you can also download a version of the form from the Leeds Community Foundation website at www.leedscommunity foundation.org.uk or still via the YEP website.
Applications close at 5pm on March 5.
Groups will find out if they have been successful or not in the week beginning April 12. Grants need to be used within 12 months of being awarded.
Little Britain star David Walliams, who is backing the Sport Relief campaign, said: "Sport Relief has teamed up with the YEP to give the local organisations that help people living incredibly tough lives in Leeds the chance to apply for a grant of up to 1,000 – part of our 1 million worth of grants that will be awarded to groups working to improve their local communities all across the UK.
"I'm encouraging YEP readers to rise to the challenge to support poor and vulnerable people in Leeds, the rest of the UK and the world's poorest countries by entering the Sainsbury's Sport Relief
Mile in Leeds on March 21. Visit sportrelief.com today to take part."
stuart.robinson@ ypn.co.uk
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