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OUR COMPETITIONS DONATE TO CHARITY
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We don't always have cash to give but if we do have some, we like to donate to smaller charities rather than the massive, international, TV advertising, knocking on your door every five minutes, charities



TOTAL AMOUNT DONATED to charity as at August 17th 2020 - £420.00

August 2020 £25 donated to Hedgepigs, Beeston Charitable Org 1189906
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August 2020 Food and equipment delivery from their Amazon wish list made to Bramcote Animal Rescue, Bramcote,
Nottinghamshire (approx £25)
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The winner of our Open Short Story Competition 2017 Tony Oswick gave us his winning prize of £100 and we donated

£50 in groceries to Broxtowe Youth Homelessness, based in Stapleford, Notts
£50 in groceries to Long Eaton and Sawley Foodbank.


Thank you, Tony Oswick, much appreciated.

Message below is from Broxtowe Youth Homelessness


Hi Debbie and all at Erewash Writers

Thank you so, so much for your brilliant donation - it is exactly what we needed! Your kindness is hugely appreciated and makes a real difference to those who receive out food and toiletries parcels. I've attached a couple of pictures for you to use on your website. Thank you again, wishing you all a very merry Christmas!
From all of us at BYH 


Sharon Smith Senior Project Worker  
Broxtowe Youth Homelessness 1 Church Walk, Stapleford, Nottingham NG9 8DE
Tel: (0115) 939 6760
Office: (0115) 837 2710

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Erewash Writers' Group - Open Short Story Competition 2018

  ** Our 2nd prize winner has donated her £15 winnings to our 2018 fund** 
Thank you, Barbara Young, much appreciated.


Every year we provide a cash donation to a UK charity or voluntary group, funds raised from our annual Open competition.  

If you want to let us know of an organisation in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire you believe would make good use of our donation, please email Debbie with information when you send your entry.  We are particularly interested in hearing from voluntary groups with a reliance on donations to exist.  Although we are more than happy to support large, well-known charities, we are also very keen to donate our cash to groups with less visibility.  If you are a group which, for example, does not have a high street charity shop 
and can't afford massive TV advertising campaigns, then please do contact Debbie to make her aware of your existence.

If you would like to send us information about a charity or group which you think we may like to include in our next Open Short Story Competition, please include the following details with your entry:

Name of charity/group                
           
Charity/group website info and/or email address

Postal address (to where the donation cheque will be sent)


The more information you include about the group, the more we can list on our website for you.


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WE HAVE MADE DONATIONS SO FAR TO:

FIFTH DONATION 2015 and 2016 - £50 - donations of £25 each in 2020 to Hedgepigs and Bramcote Animal Rescue
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FOURTH DONATION 2014 - a cheque value £70 was presented to the RSPCA shop in Long Eaton in 2015.

http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/gallery.html
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THIRD DONATION 2013 -  Thank you to every entrant who helped us raise this cash because the entry fee
to our annual competition not only paid cash to our winners, it is also provided a donation of £60 to St Elizabeth Hospice, 565 Foxhall Road, IPSWICH, IP3 8LX.   See our blog for a picture of our donation having been received
(you'll need to scroll down to 31st July 2014).
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SECOND DONATION - Winter 2012 - We had a set amount of £40 to donate with our Creepy Christmas Chiller Competition.  We decided it was to be awarded to a UK charitable organisation or voluntary group within Notts/Derbys areas.    At the close of the competition, the charity that had received the most nominations was TREETOPS HOSPICE, RISLEY and Debbie handed Gay a cheque for £40.
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FIRST DONATION - Summer 2012

Erewash Writers' Group - Open Short Story Competition (Summer 2012)  DONATION

The amount of donation we raised from our summer competition amounted to £60. This was picked out by Audrey 
at Parklands Connexion, Stanhope Street, Long Eaton.  See our blog post 12th November 2012 for a piccie of this happy occasion.   http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/blog.html

We awarded this donation to Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice, Sheffield.





THANKS TO ALL ENTRANTS TO OUR INTERNATIONAL WRITING COMPETITIONS.  WE COULD NOT HAVE DONATED THIS CASH WITHOUT YOU.









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