Sport Relief gives cash to community groups

This is Nottingham1st January, 2009

NOTTINGHAM community groups will benefit from a £62,500 giveaway.

Sport Relief has teamed up with the Evening Post to give grants of £500 to £1,000 to organisations working in deprived areas of the city or which have an income of less than £50,000 a year.

Lunch clubs, parent and toddler groups, community festivals and sports, are just some of the activities that can receive a boost from the Community Cash fund.

Carl Froch is supporting Sport Relief in Nottingham and is visiting the Nottingham Forest Football Foundation Project today to launch the campaign .

He said: "Sport Relief has teamed up with the Evening Post to give the local organisations that help people living incredibly tough lives in Nottingham the chance to apply for a grant of up to £1,000 - this is part of £1million worth of grants that will be awarded to groups working to improve their local communities all across the UK."

Sport Relief started in 2002 and is one of Comic Relief's two public funding initiatives.

Nottingham is one of its 16 flagship cities for Sport Relief 2010 and will host a Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile event with around 4,500 runners.

Carl said: "I'm encouraging readers to rise to the challenge to support poor and vulnerable people in Nottingham, the rest of the UK, and the world's poorest countries by entering the Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile in the city on March 21."

The campaign runs for eight weeks building up to the Sport Relief Weekend of March 19 to 21.

Applications for grants must be in by midday on Friday, March 5.

Visit www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/sportreliefentry.html for an application form.

Log on to www.sportrelief.com to find out more about the campaign.

tanya.holden @nottinghameveningpost.co.uk

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