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Bakers boost community projects

Greggs Trust, the charitable arm of North East-based bakery chain Greggs, has awarded grants totalling just over £100,000 to three community projects in the region.

Escape Family Support in Blyth, Northumberland, which offers support to people and families affected by drug and alcohol addiction, received £12,000 to help fund its alcohol project. £45,000 went to Moving On in Durham, which offers housing and tenancy support services to single young people in the county. The West View Advice and Resource Centre in Hartlepool was awarded £43,986 to help provide Tribunal advice over the next three years.

Greggs Trust manager, Mark Wilson, said: “We have awarded these grants to organisations which help to improve people’s quality of life here in the North East, which is the aim of Greggs Trust. Each of the three projects offers very different services and, having visited them, it’s clear that they all make a significant difference to the lives of the people they support. I am delighted that we are able to support their future activities.”

In 2007, grants made by Greggs Trust amounted to over £1,011,750. This figure includes grants made by the divisional charity committees of Greggs and Bakers Oven around the UK.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .