Insurer Benefact Group has handed 150 charities £1,000 each as part of its Movement for Good Awards.
The funding is the latest set of awards through the scheme, which is worth £1m a year to good causes.
For this latest round member of the public were asked to nominate charities.
Among those to benefit is London based Bipolar UK , youth homelessness charity Gloucestershire Nightstop and Scotland’s Saturday Café Club, which runs activities for children with disabilities.
A total of 15,000 charities shared 245,000 nominations from supporters. The winning charities were picked at random from those nominated.
This year a total of 420 charities have been handed £1,000 donations through the insurer’s award scheme.
“We would like to thank every single person who took the time to nominate a good cause as part of our Movement for Good Awards,” said the insurer’s group chief executive Mark Hews.
“We know that £1,000 can make a huge difference to the incredible work that charities do and we’re looking forward to seeing how this financial boost will change lives for the better.”
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