EVERY week during July, insurer Swinton is offering cash donations to help people who need financial assistance to complete an important project for themselves, their neighbours or their wider community.
Each week of the month will have a specific focus, such as neighbour or community, and at the end of each week a winner will be selected in that week’s category. The second week of the campaign saw Swinton contribute to a gardening project.
In the final week, beginning on Monday, Swinton wants to hear about an initiative that will benefit the wider community.
It could be building new facilities in a youth club, creating a kids play area in an unused space, giving the community centre a makeover or coming together to create a community garden filled with fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers year round - anything that will help the people in the entrant’s local area.
The winning neighbour project will all be awarded a cheque for £1,000. The community project will receive £5,000, with the person who nominates the successful community project also being given £250. Each winner will be announced at the end of the corresponding week and every entrant will be entered into a prize draw for £100.
For the first week of the Summer Project from Swinton Insurance campaign entrants were invited to seek a helping hand from Swinton with jobs around the house that, for whatever reason, they had not been able to complete.
Steve Griffiths, head of marketing at Swinton Insurance, said: “Following the success of our Great Britain’s Greatest Neighbour campaign last summer, Swinton wanted to return to neighbourhoods around the country and help do our bit for families and communities.
"We’re all aware of how, sometimes, a project needs to be completed but it can get put off again and again for a wide variety of reasons. Swinton’s Summer Project is our way of offering a helping hand in completing these jobs.”
To submit an entry for Swinton Insurance’s Summer Project and for full terms and conditions visit swinton.co.uk/in-the-know/project-summer/
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