DON'T miss your chance to make a big difference to a local organisation.
Foresight, located in New Market Street, Grimsby, has been nominated for a share of the People's Millions as part of the Big Lottery Fund, to help create a new community garden at a living complex in Stallingborough.
As reported Foresight, a local charity that provides education and support to people with disabilities as well as their families and carers, purchased Anne Askew House, in South Marsh Road. They redeveloped it into 26 self-contained apartments for vulnerable adults after it closed as a communal living campus for the elderly two years ago.
Foresight chief officer Paul Silvester is appealing for the community to get behind the organisation so it can secure the £25,000 needed to transform the derelict wasteland. He said: "The development is a superb complex, however, included in the deal for the building came a vast area of green space that has become overgrown and under-utilised.
"To transform this area would take a lot of money, it needs to be landscaped and cultivated.
"Winning the grant would enable us to create an area that would benefit the whole community.
"But we need people to pick up the phone and vote today.
"The more calls we get, the more chance we have of winning the money."
Each day this week one organisation will compete against another in a phone vote to win a grant from the Big Lottery Fund, and, today, Foresight is up against a Yorkshire-based charity.
Throughout the day on ITV both groups will feature in videos appealing for your vote.
"We are the only organisation from this area that is in the running and we are competing against a coal mining charity in Yorkshire. If we don't get the votes, we don't get the money," said Paul.
"The garden project will be a great asset to the whole community – not only those who use our services or live in the complex, but schools and other groups, too.
"The garden will have a vegetable plot and landscaping, making it a great place to enjoy the practical side of gardening or just enjoy the garden.
"It will be a great learning zone that will be available for schools in the local area to use as well."
The number, which was released at 9am today, can be called up to 10 times from the same number meaning that just 10 people voting could equal 100 votes for Foresight.
"We need at least 60,000 votes to be in with a chance of winning, so please pick up the phone," added Paul.
To vote you must the call the charity's number (which will be posted here later this morning) or go to www.peoplesmillions.org.uk
Calls cost 10p from a landline, but may vary from mobiles.
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