Make It Happen Awards

Combined’s Community Awards programme, called Make It Happen, aims to give away a shared prize fund of £10,000 in a particular local area to people, groups and charities who want to make something specific happen for the benefit of their local community.

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Winning ideas have included:

• Money for a youth theatre group to buy a stage and curtains for its new headquarters
• Sponsorship for Brownies to participate in a training scheme
• Funding for a youth worker to save an after-school club from closure
• Money to pay for a new ramp to allow access for disabled people

Clive Robinson, President of Europe & Asia/Pacific Operations for Combined Insurance, said: “The Make It Happen awards is a real chance to make communities better places to live, work and go to school and any scheme, group or charity in the area can apply for a share of the prize pool as long as the money is going to be used to benefit the community.”