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Douglas Macmillan Hospice needs your vote in Lloyds Bank Community Fund

Douglas Macmillan Hospice has been shortlisted for the Lloyds Bank Community Fund 2014 in the Newcastle under Lyme community.

By encouraging the public to vote, Douglas Macmillan Hospice has a chance to be awarded a grant of up to £3,000 from Lloyds Bank to enable it to continue doing good work in the community.

Karen McKenzie, Director of Income Generation commented;

“We are very pleased and honoured to be nominated as a finalist for The Lloyds Community Fund Award, given there are so many worthy causes locally. We have no links with any national charities and we are so very dependent on local people to keep on supporting us year on year.

“Without this support we could not maintain and develop all care services for over 2,500 patients and their families each year, in their own homes or at the hospice in Blurton. Your vote would be appreciated to help with our Day Therapy Developments”

The Lloyds Bank Community Fund was set up to help local people across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and Isle of Man to have a positive impact at the heart of their community by giving grants to up to 1,400 local good causes in 350 communities.

There are four good causes shortlisted in each community and Lloyds Bank is inviting everyone to vote for the causes they’d most like to support.

Members of the public can vote for their preferred community group on-line, by SMS or Twitter, or in a branch of Lloyds bank from 2 September to 10 October 2014. The local good cause that receives most votes in each community will receive an award of £3,000, with the other groups receiving £2,000, £1,000 or £500 depending on the votes received.

You can find out more about the Community Fund and Douglas Macmillan Hospice and cast your vote by visiting the Lloyds Bank Community Fund website at: www.lloydsbank.com/communityfund.

Alternatively text VOTE NBB to 61119 or vote via your twitter account using #CommFund NBB

Voting for the 2014 Community Fund is open until Friday 10 October.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Paul Downey .