RUGBY CHARITIES SHARE A SLICE OF FUNDING FROM THE HEART OF ENGLAND
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY’S HELPING HEARTS AWARD SCHEME

Charities and worthy causes in Rugby have been awarded a share of £2,185 from the Heart of England Co-operative Society.

The money has come from the Society’s Helping Hearts Award Scheme which donates every penny of the retailer’s tobacco profits to charities and worthy causes across its trading area.

Among those to benefit was the Rugby Borough Credit Union, which received £300 towards promotional leaflets advertising a change of address to Little Church Street, West Haddon Pre-School which received £100 towards its outdoor play area for the children, Friends of Cawston Greenway, which will use its £100 towards tools and equipment for turning part of the disused and overgrown Rugby to Leamington Railway line into a nature and butterfly reserve.

Rugby High School was awarded £25 towards a prize draw to raise funds for an extension linking the sixth form area to the main school. Kilsby School Association also received £25 which will be used towards a May fayre, raising cash for a new school building.

Jo Dyke, Community and Membership Adviser at the Heart of England Co-operative Society, said: “Every month we receive a good number of applications from a real mix of groups from across our trading area of Coventry, Warwickshire, south Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. This month is no exception and of course we were delighted to do what we can to help.

“Eighty-five per cent of the applications were successful. For those who were not this time there is no reason why the same groups should not re-apply when other projects come up. Next time they may be more successful.”

Anyone who would like to make an application for a donation from Helping Hearts can pick up a form from any one of the Society’s branches.

Alternatively contact Jo Dyke on 024 7638 2331.