NOTTINGHAM POST readers in Lambley are being encouraged to save tokens after the village was accepted as a beneficiary of the newspaper’s Cash for Your Community initiative. Starting next Wednesday (25 May 2011) until Friday 17 June, the Post will print a variable number of tokens each day. Each one is as good as cash for the Lambley Parish Plan Group.
The Cash for Your Community scheme was launched by the Nottingham Post and the Nottingham Building Society in April, with the initial intention of distributing £25,000 between 200 different community groups. Due to the high response from groups eager to claim a share of the cash, the sponsors have increased the fund to £35,000 and allowed the first 300 organisations registered to take a share. The size of that share will be determined by the number of tokens each group collects.
All money raised by the Lambley campaign will be used for community projects in the village, says campaign coordinator Lawrence Milbourn. He asks everybody to collect as many tokens as they can and deliver them to 12 Main Street, Lambley, before 20 June 2011. Local paperboy Fred Swan has volunteered to collect tokens as he delivers papers, if these are left for him.