The Co-operative has announced it has £60,000 up for grabs for community groups and charities in the Dorset area thanks to the generosity of its customers over the last year.

The Co-operative’s Community Fund is raised by member customers opting to donate all or part of their annual dividend to good causes. The latest calculations reveal that £60,000 of the total £420,000 raised across the South West region is available for distribution in the Dorset area during the first half of the year.

Last year 62 groups in the area benefited from cash from the Community Fund, including the You Trust Art Group, which received £500 towards an exhibition showing the impact of homelessness at Weymouth Library, which will run from 1pm on 13 February until 18 February during library opening hours.

Jacqueline Redfern, from You Trust Art Group, said: “The Community Fund grant has made such a difference to us and I’m sure the exhibition will do a great job of raising awareness of homelessness in the area.

“The donation is made even more special by knowing that even in tough economic times, ordinary people have decided to give away their dividend to groups to make a…

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ODT Business Interiors is thrilled to hand over another two buildings for a regional charity. YOU, which helps thousands of vulnerable people in the South,had recently asked ODT to create its new HQ in Fareham; YOU was so pleased with the outcome that we were invited to create new offices in Winchester and Dorchester.

YOU was recently voted one of the Top 100 companies to work for by The Sunday Times and focuses on the needs and aspirations of individuals so that they can achieve and maintain independent lives. It promotes life skills among services users, such as budgeting, confidencebuilding and cooking,and has 450 employees working at 50 sites,last year touching the lives of 12,000 people in Hampshire and Dorset.

(From ODT Business Interior’s Winter Magazine

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