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More nominations than ever before came in for this year’s Believe in Gloucester Awards, giving the judges picking the short list something to think about. Now’s your chance to vote.

Dear readers,

I hope you had a great weekend. Today’s edition is given over almost entirely to this year’s Believe in Gloucester Awards - and letting you know you can now vote on the shortlisted entries.

We were lucky enough to be involved in last year’s relaunch and invited along to report on the event (you can read that here).

This year The Raikes Journal is honoured to appear among an illustrious list of sponsors who are yet again making the Gloucester BID event possible.

It’s a list led by headline sponsors Gloucester Quays and WSP Solicitors. Raikes is backing one of the 15 awards - the Heritage or Regeneration Award, somewhat fitting for a business named after one of the city’s most famous fathers, Robert Raikes.

Another of those 15 awards is for charity of the year, and there are four shortlisted - all of which you can now vote on. We focus on one of those below in our regular charity of the week feature.

If that piece, and the article on the young Chris Hancock who won last year’s y…