Make It Happen Awards

One of Combined Insurance’s previous Community Awards programmes, Make It Happen, gave away a shared prize fund of £10,000 in a particular local area to people, groups and charities who made something specific happen for the benefit of their local community.

Derby	Southampton	Reading	Bolton

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