The Yorkshire Evening Post has been proud to officially back the Can Do campaign, since it was launched in Leeds last summer.

Already the scheme, run by the Scarman Trust charity, is helping dozens of community projects across the city, with grants of £2,000 handed out to 50 people this year.

If an application for more than £200,000 in funding from the Millennium Commission is successful then 60 more grants – ranging between £2,000 and £5,000 – will be up for grabs.

Can Do co-ordinator for Leeds, Alison Haskins, said the spectacular results it has achieved were down in no small part to the backing it had received from the YEP.

“The publicity we got was so important right the way through,” she explained. “The paper’s help really played a vital role.”

Leeds Central MP Hilary Benn called the YEP’s work “fantastic”.

The newspaper also gave space to volunteer worker Joy Hart to write her own article about the difference a £2,000 Can Do grant had made to her efforts to bring a new look to two of Leeds’s most deprived areas.

To read what some other papers have highlighted during Local Newspaper Week, click on the links below:

• Hull Daily Mail
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Nottingham Evening Post
• Birmingham Evening Mail

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