The Roald Dahl charity helping seriously ill children has made the final selection of ten charities in chance for a £16,000 cash prize.

Bucks Free Press is giving local charities the chance to take a share of an amazing £128k cash giveaway.

Our parent company’s charitable arm, The Gannett Foundation, is providing £128k in cash to support local charities across the country and we are delighted to have a £16k share to give away in our area.

Support poured in from across Buckinghamshire for the Amersham- based Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, who are “excited” to be nominated.

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The charity’s corporate partnership’s manager Helen Nelson said: “It’s all about the children.

“Caring for a seriously ill child is tricky and financially burdening for a lot of the families.

“Things like having to go to extra hospital appointments, taking the children out of school, missing time of work, the extra cost of heating and electricity are all there anyway, but now coming out of Covid and the financial pressures on families.  

“The support we can give by providing a Roald Dahl nurse can alleviate some of those worries.

“It won’t obviously alleviate everything, but it will make a difficult and tough situation a bit better.”

If given the cash prize, the charity is looking to boost the training of its most valuable resource, the nurses.

Tens of thousands of children and their families rely on the support and care by the charity’s dedicated team of 86 specialist nurses, who look after children with complex conditions across the country.

Ms Nelson added: “The nurses provide the clinical, emotional and practical all-round care for families.

“These children are living with lifelong, complex conditions.

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“We support over 25,000 of these children, but we need more nurses for more children.

“All the funding will go towards that specialist nurse provision to establish more Roald Dahl nurse specialists.”

While many people nominated the local charity to get to this stage, now the power to allocate cash to them is in the hands of our readers.

You are now invited to collect tokens included in each copy of Bucks Free Press newspaper, and drop them off at the collection boxes for Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity located here: 

  • Bulldog News & Booze, Red Lion Street, Chesham
  • Ricki’s News, Wycome Road, Beaconsfield
  • J Walsh Newsagents, Holmer Green Bucks
  • Chiltern Leisure Centre, Amersham
  • Downley News, Littleworth Road, Downley, High Wycombe
  • RM Terry Newsagents, Sycamore Road, Amersham
  • Bucks Free Press office in Loudwater, HP10 9TX 

You can also send tokens by post to Redhill House, 227 London Road, Worcester, WR5 2JG 

Each token collected will then be used to allocate cash to the nominated charity – so if your favourite charity collects 50% of all to tokens collected, it will receive 50% of the £16,000!