THE Community Chest involves 10 deserving groups bidding for a slice of a £15,000 bonanza.

This year the chest is bigger than ever, offering almost £5,000 more than last year. It has been sponsored by Barclays Bank, which has a main branch in Huddersfield town centre and others in Milnsbridge, Fartown, Holmfirth and Skelmanthorpe.

All 10 organisations are now being profiled in the Examiner. Then the business of collecting voting slips starts, with the groups with most votes winning cash.

Organisations shortlisted can enlist family and friends to collect voting slips.

The public will be asked to vote on which causes they think are most deserving by collecting the slips and taking them to their nearest Barclays branch, participating newsagents, the Examiner office on Queen Street South or posting them to our office.

More than 60,000 tokens were sent in last year and the overall winners were the Friends Of Beaumont Park.