DO YOU want to make a difference to your community? Do you know somewhere in need of a makeover or a place near you that is desperately in need of a clean-up? If the answer is yes, we may be able to help.

The Daily Echo has teamed up with Barclays Community Investment Programme , which has given us £10,000, to help local people make the most of their area.

We want to motivate everyone to help improve their own community. Is there somewhere near you that is desperately in need of a clean up to bring it back to the use for which it was always intended?

It might be a vandalised youth club, a local playgroup, a school playground, a Girl Guide or Cub Scout Hall, an overgrown public space, a local bingo or dance hall, which desperately needs jazzing up or maybe you need us to pick up our paintbrushes to remove graffiti?

The good news is that the Daily Echo and Barclays Community Investment Programme are here to help.

The winning project will receive £5,000 to spend on their makeover, second place will receive £3,000 and the third place project will receive £2,000.

But which project is most deserving of this treatment? This is where Daily Echo readers come in. We want you to tell us where our DIY team should be put to work and here's how to go about it...

STEP ONE

Simply choose which project you would like us to come and makeover, complete the nomination form appearing in the Daily Echo from January 12-26 or in the Advertiser on the January 17 and 24 January 2008 and send it to; £10,000 Community Makeover Competition, Daily Echo, Promotions Dept. Richmond Hill, Bournemouth. BH2 6HH and received by no later than 28/01/08.

Please note that projects must be able to accept CAF vouchers as payment for their prize. No cash alternatives will be given. If you wish to check your organisations eligibility, you can call David Bond at Barclays on 07766361446.

STEP TWO

Once entries have been received, the Daily Echo & Barclays Community Investment Programme representatives will select a number of finalists. The Daily Echo will then come out and take pictures of these entries and publish them in the paper on February 11.

STEP THREE

This is where Daily Echo readers & community supporters come in again as we need you to support your favourite project.

Tokens will be printed in the Daily Echo everyday from February 11-23. Bonus tokens will also be appearing in the Advertiser on February 14 and 21 and on this website from February 11.

  • Please note only one bonus token from the Advertiser and website will be accepted per entry.

You will also be able to vote for your favourite project by phone or text...

The project that collects the most amount of tokens/calls/texts will be the winners!

Making the most of your region, locally.

All normal Daily Echo rules apply and are available on request.

Organisations must be CAF registered in order to receive their prize as no cash alternative is available.

Barclays has a community investment exclusions policy which identifies types of initiatives and causes that they do not fund.

The community investment budgets cannot be used to support: Political parties or bodies, Promotion of religious beliefs (we do consider projects lead by religious organisations providing the whole community benefits,) Sponsorship of individuals, Rotary, Lions Clubs and other third-party giving organisations, Hospital costs, Medical charities and medical research, Capital appeals (for example, for buildings,) Educational institutions (unless the donation provides direct support to a disadvantaged group,) The Arts (unless the donation provides direct support to a disadvantaged group,) Micro-finance loan fund capital (donations can be used to support the establishment and operation of community motivated micro-finance programmes, but cannot be used as capital for on-lending direct to clients.

Any unsuccessful entries will automatically be entered into the Gannett Foundation Fund Draw & contacted directly should they be a successful applicant.