Morrisons in Kirkham is giving away cash grants to help the local environment as part of the volunteering campaign, which runs until July 31, 2008.

Morrisons nationally has agreed to provide grants to 900 voluntary groups across the country to help kick-start community environmental projects – and the Kirkham store is getting right behind the campaign and requesting that local people get involved.

This is the second year that Morrisons has supported the national environmental volunteering campaign run by CSV, the UK's largest volunteering charity.

Last year, more than 15,500 people took part in 750 CSV Action Earth projects in the UK, giving over 300,000 volunteering hours while planting more than 4,000 trees; collecting nearly 7,000 sacks of litter; cleaning nearly 7,000 metres of river bed and overall improving nearly 2,000 acres of land.

A spokesman for Kirkham Morrisons said: "We are pleased that the sponsorship we have given CSV is going to help kick-start many excellent community environmental projects. More than one in 10 volunteers choose to give time to help the environment. We think CSV Action Earth offers an opportunity to support big ideas by local people keen to make changes for the better where they live"

Mike Williams, director of CSV Environment, says: "Helping the environment can seem like a monumental task, but volunteering in your local community, whether collecting dumped material for recycling, planting trees or clearing up an untidy area is something we can all do.

"We believe that local people themselves are best placed to decide what needs doing in their area and thanks to Morrisons' grants they can now do something about it."

n To register a project, apply for a grant or get more information, call CSV on Tel: 0121 328 7455 or visit www.csv.org.uk/actionearth.