Which Isle of Wight charity will you nominate in grant scheme?

Our parent company’s charitable arm, The Gannett Foundation, is providing £125k to support local charities across the country.

We are delighted to have a £20k share to give away across the Isle of Wight, Hampshire and Dorset area.

In previous years, the Gannett Foundation has supported Island good causes, including giving £5,000 to Havenstreet Community Association for a new roof and £3,000 to Pan Together.

Gannett Foundation £5,000 cheque presentation from CP editor Alan Marriott to Havenstreet Community Association

This year, we want YOU to decide where this money should be spent.

We’re asking readers to nominate their favourite local charities to be considered for a grant.

Making a nomination couldn’t be easier - but you need to submit yours by October 3.

• Visit countypress.co.uk/readerschoice and fill in the form
• Or write to us with the name and address of the charity you’d like to nominate and why to: Readers’ Choice Cash For Charity Nominations, Fleet House, Hampshire Road, Weymouth, DT4 9XD.

Once all nominations have been received, we will select eight of the most popular local charities to be featured in this year’s grants scheme.

We’re then going to put the power to allocate the cash back into the hands of our readers – for four weeks, readers will be invited to collect tokens from our newspapers which can then be sent to collection points across our region or posted.

Each token collected will then be used to allocate cash to the nominated charity – so if your favourite charity collects 50 per cent of all to tokens collected, it will receive 50 per cent of the £20,000.