Village Aid

Candis Club

Candis (www.candis.co.uk) is a magazine with a difference. Its club element brings people together, promoting healthy living, community and family life, and supports a wide range of charities, as well as giving it’s members a whole host of benefits. For details of all the benefits of being a Candis member go to http://www.candis.co.uk/

Donating 10% of all subscription income to good causes, Candis has helped generate more than £50m for charity over the last 44 years.

In addition to the support of health-related charities, Candis Club also donates up to £8,000 every month to projects in local communities. It could be your community next!

Candis Club Community Awards

Candis Club members can help their community by nominating a local group for an award. Each month, a selection of nominated community groups and voluntary organisations are chosen by the Candis Club Committee to receive one-off awards of between £500 and £5,000.

For more information on how your village can benefit from the Candis Club Community Awards, or to fill out a nomination form, visit www.candis.co.uk/

Criteria

The Candis Club Committee has approved the following as criteria to follow when selecting groups to receive a Candis Club Community Award:

The organisation / project should: -

• Intend to use the donation for activities directly benefiting the people of a member’s local community

• Have direct or tangible benefits to those it aims to support (or provide a time-scale indicating when benefits are expected to take place)

• Be of benefit to a significant number of people in your community

• Disclose its objectives for spending a Candis Club donation

• Provide a copy of its latest Annual Report, where available

• Be charitable within the meaning of the law, whether or not the proposed recipient is a registered charity.

• Be able to bank a CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION (CAF) cheques. Further information on CAF can be found at www.cafonline.org and on the following page.

• N.B. Requests for items such as computer equipment, office materials and other items for marketing, advertising and the charity's day-to-day administrative costs will not generally be considered.

Nominations are considered by the Candis Club Committee on a monthly basis.

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