TESCO shoppers are being invited to cast their votes to help community projects in North Wales bag up to £25,000 this autumn.

The supermarket is marking its centenary with two special Bags of Help funding rounds, with a huge £100,000 funding pot in North Wales.

After a successful first round, customer voting begins for the second raft of shortlisted groups this month.

Bags of Help, run in partnership with Groundwork, sees funding awarded to thousands of local community projects every year.

In North Wales, customers can cast their votes for the shortlisted groups using blue tokens handed out at checkouts. Grants of £25,000, £15,000 and £10,000 are up for grabs.

Keith Jackson, Tesco’s Bags of Help manager, said: “We have been celebrating a century of delivering great value for our customers throughout 2019. And central to that have been our Centenary Grants, which aim to support groups and organisations who are helping to make a difference across Britain.

“We’re calling on our customers to vote in stores from October and show their support for these fantastic community causes.”

The projects include: Hope House Children’s Hospices which is looking to purchase a wheelchair adapted vehicle to bring terminally ill children to Hope House and Ty Gobiath for vital respite care.

Ty Croeso, Dawn Elizabeth House – for the provision of more facilities for families with sick babies in the North Wales Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Welsh Women's Aid / Cymorth i Ferched Cymru – looking to provide life changing support for survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence in North Wales.

So far in Wales, Bags of Help has awarded over £5.5m to nearly 2,000 local projects.

The funding will reach more than 30 regions during each round, with £3,300,000 up for grabs in total.

Groundwork’s National chief executive, Graham Duxbury, added: “This is an exciting time for Bags of Help, with many more communities given the opportunity to apply for larger amounts of funding that can make a positive, long-lasting legacy where they live.”

Find out more about Bags of Help, visit www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp.