The Kent Messenger Group has teamed up with the Charities Aid Foundation to launch a campaign to encourage people to give more to good causes.

Get Kent Giving aims to motivate people and businesses to make regular, tax-efficient donations to their favourite good causes, and has been launched through group's paid-for titles, which include the Kent Messenger and the Kentish Express, as well as the website kentonline.co.uk and radio station KM FM.

The campaign will run through to the end of October, taking in National Giving Week from October 17 to 23, with some Kent charities benefiting from a share of almost £50,000 from CAF, along with valuable publicity.

Nominations for the funds are being invited from readers, and charities can also enter themselves or encourage their volunteers and supporters to nominate them.

KM Group editorial director Simon Irwin said: "We are delighted to be piloting this worthwhile campaign, and we hope individuals and businesses will support Get Kent Giving to the benefit of the many good causes in the county."