THIS year’s Airbus/Leader Community Awards have received a whole host of entries from good causes hoping to be in the running for a share of £20,000.

Those entries have now been shortlisted down to 10.

Each group will be featured over the next two weeks, with a voting form set to appear in the paper and online after each entry has been featured.

So make sure the group/organisation you think is the most deserving of the large cash prizes up for grabs gets your vote....

A NORTH Wales organisation looking to alleviate period poverty is a finalist in the Airbus and Leader Community Awards.

NW Nappy Collective CIC are an organisation involved in several projects in the community, including supporting the use of reusable nappies and sanitary products.

The organisation has applied for the awards funding, primarily to help with their Given to Shine project to bring sanitary products into primary and secondary schools.

A recent Wrexham Council survey discovered that 28 per cent of secondary school girls and 38 per cent of primary school girls have missed school at some point due to a lack of sanitary products.

The funding will allow the organisation to provide free sanitary products into schools in Wrexham, with the aim of expanding the project into Flintshire, Denbighshire, the Wirral and West Cheshire.

Director Hayley Williams said: "We introduced the project into a Wrexham school at the start of February and we've had a 99.7 per cent uptake.

"We came in to do an assembly, and honestly expected maybe a 20 per cent turnout, but we were literally mobbed.

"The plan is to hit at all the schools in North Wales. The funding will go towards supplying schools in Flintshire, because we need to prove the project works."

Director, Lucy Spencer added: "We are overwhelmed at being shortlisted. Our goal is to eradicate period poverty locally, and eventually nationally, it is something which we have been working very hard towards.

"This opportunity will ensure available access to menstrual products for more schoolgirls."

Meanwhile fellow director Natalie Harrop said: "I'm absolutely delighted to hear that we've been shortlisted for the Airbus awards.

"As a resident of Broughton, it's nice to know that local businesses are supporting such valuable, life changing and worthy causes."