Cheers: John Galer, centre, branch director of Chandlers Building Supplies, presents the Windmill Allotment Project with £500 from Chandlers' Community Fund.

After being inundated with votes from the public, the Windmill Allotment Project has been chosen as the next winner of the Chandlers Building Supplies Community Fund, supported by the Thanet Extra.

More than 200 votes were cast and John Galer, branch director at Chandlers in Margate, presented a cheque for £500 to the project. They will be using the money to buy essential items such as tools, seeds, extra ingredients that are not grown on site and to pay for staffing costs to support the Windmill Allotment’s Cabbage Patch Parent and Toddler Group.

The Windmill Allotment Project’s Lorna Kane said: "We are absolutely delighted to receive the donation and would like to thank everyone that voted, and Chandlers for their generosity. The money will go a long way to ensuring that the Cabbage Patch Parent and Toddler Group can continue."

Throughout 2010, Chandlers has been donating £500 a month to local projects, charities and community groups as part of the Community Fund Campaign. With the year coming to an end, this will now be the final vote of this year’s campaign.

We are asking our readers to choose who they would like to receive the £500 from the three nominations below:

Reflections Support Group for the Blind

Reflections is a club for the visually impaired who meet at St Christopher Church in Newington. Members are able to mix with others with similar sight problems, giving them an opportunity to have a normal life, rather than living in isolation as so many do.

As all the members have a visual impairment, they cannot drive and are unable to use public transport without the assistance of a sighted person, so Reflections provides transport to and from the meetings. So that distance or cost is not a factor in attending the club, the transport is free to members, and Reflections would use the Community Fund donation to help towards this cost.

Thanet Wildlife Rescue

Thanet Wildlife Rescue provide a 24-7 service for injured wildlife run by a group of volunteers. One volunteer, Fran Partridge, has treated just under 1,000 wildlife patients in 2010, paying for the majority of the animals’ care herself. Fran’s home and garden is also used for intensive care treatment.

The work provided by the rescue team is held in high regard and they are known to the majority of rescue services in the area, such as Kent Fire and Rescue, harbour and port staff and the police. If Thanet Wildlife Rescue were to be successful, the £500 donation would help to ensure that the work carried out by Fran and the team of volunteers could continue.

St Lawrence College

Based in Ramsgate, St Lawrence College is a registered charity. It will be teaching a stone-carving course to its 11 to 18-year-old pupils, which is a specialist art skill that very few secondary schools offer in England.

The college has been fortunate to receive sponsorship from Canterbury Cathedral and is also being supported by The Marlowe Academy. However, it would like to be able to buy its own tools and tables so that in the future it could provide the course not only for its students but also for others in the local community.

To place your vote, simply email chandlersthanet@pmwcom.co.uk with the name of the project you want to win in the subject box, or call Sally Bason on 01403 783400. Voting will last from Wednesday December 1 until Tuesday December 7 and only one vote per person will be counted.