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 CHARITY which supports children whose parents have cancer has been shortlisted for an Airbus and Leader Community Award.

The Osborne Trust brings children together during a parent's cancer treatment to show them they are not alone.

According to the charity, it is now supporting more families than ever before and the largest number of its referrals in the last six months have come from within Flintshire.

It is now one of 10 projects which have been shortlisted for the awards - the top prize for which is £7,000.

Emma Osborne, founder and manager of the charity, said she was delighted to hear the news.

Speaking of the charity and the impact the funds could have, she said: "A cancer diagnosis impacts both emotionally and financially on a family.

"After-school activities may be cancelled and weekend trips abandoned due to finances.

"We aim to alleviate some of these things with our support programmes and the new 'Together Time' project.

"The funding would enable us to do so much more. It is about focussing on the kids' needs to get out of the house.

"We get them away from what is happening at home for a while.

"The feedback we get from the kids is that they feel like they are the only ones going through it and they feel quite isolated.

"We bring them together so they can see there are others who have parents going through it and they don't feel so alone."

The funding would help to provide Together Time activities and respite for the children and young people accessing the charity's services, as well as alleviating financial burdens on families during a cancer diagnosis by funding activities.