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UK good causes get £300,000 Newsquest charity bonanza

Good causes across the UK are set to benefit from £300,000 worth of grants made by a regional publisher’s charitable arm.

Newsquest has announced the donations which are made annually from The Gannett Foundation following applications by charities to editors at its newspapers.

Among those to benefit this year was the Journalists’ Charity, which received £15,000.

Kendal Mountain Search and Rescue received £10,000 for a new all-weather control vehicle following an application made through the Westmorland Gazette, while charities in Scotland and Wales received more than they had in recent years.

Kendal Mountain Search and Rescue is among the good causes to benefit

More than £3m worth of donations have been made by the scheme in the last 10 years.

Chairman of the trustees Simon Westrop said: “It was good to see Wales and Scotland back on track after a couple of lean years.

“And we were glad to be able to give to some exciting projects making people’s lives better in all sorts of ways – like the Oxford Playhouse plan to wrap up theatre and take it out to isolated and disadvantaged communities in Oxfordshire in a tent donated by Newsquest.

“Year on year, we are seeing better applications with more focused attention on different ways of helping – caring for the present but also building for the future.”

The Gannett Foundation is the charitable arm of US-based Gannett, which owns Newsquest.

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  • December 13, 2017 at 4:45 pm
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    Charity and Newsquest – now those are two words not normally seen in a sentence, let alone a headline

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