Reepham benefits from IFA charity awards

Reepham Chamber of Commerce has received a grant of £1,000 from Almary Green to help with the cost of a permanent wiring network for the town’s Christmas lights display.
 

Left to right: Carl Lamb, managing director of Almary Green, presents the award to Reepham Chamber of Commerce representatives Claudia Lowe (treasurer), Judy Holland and Michele Savage

 
The Norwich-based independent financial advisers recently handed out £10,000 to East Anglian charities and good causes. This brings the total number of good causes to benefit since the annual awards were inaugurated in 2011 to 89.
 
Cheques were presented to the 15 chosen applicants for the 2015 awards at receptions in Norwich and Cambridge.
 
Successful nominations were selected from applications received during the summer by a panel including the firm’s managing director, Carl Lamb.
 
“It is always difficult to decide who should be granted an award as there are so many good causes out there,” he said. “We have tried to select a range of charities and community projects so that our help can bring tangible benefits to people of all ages and abilities across the region.”
 
Reepham Chamber of Commerce treasurer Claudia Lowe said: “Organising the lighting for Reepham’s historic market place has given us problems every year in the past.
 
“This grant will enable us to put something in place that can be used again and again, and will ensure that we can continue to provide a magical Christmas atmosphere in the town. It really will make a difference.”
 
Other Norfolk awards went to the Griffon Area Partnership in North Walsham, the Bawburgh School, Norwich’s Holy Trinity Pre-School Playgroup, Norwich’s Chermond Trust, Great Yarmouth Haven Rotary Club, Norfolk & Norwich Scope Association (NANSA), Wymondham Fire Cadets, the Norwich Dragons Trampoline Club and Norwich Foodbank.
 
Awards were made at the Cambridge event to the Sick Children’s Trust, the Carers Trust Cambridgeshire, the Cambridge Family Mediation Service, the 1220 (March) Squadron ATC and the Woolverstone Project from Ipswich.
 

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