MORE than 10,000 charities across Essex are set to benefit from a new campaign encouraging people to give to causes they care about.

The What Do You Believe In? campaign encourages people to actively support organisations striving to make a difference to their local community or wider society.

Its website whatdoyoubelievein.org.uk offers tips on how people can help their local charities such as using websites thebiggive.org.uk and cafonline.org to search through thousands of charity projects.

The project is supported by the Essex Community Foundation which provides grants to charities across the county.

Among its recent recipients Youth Plus, based in Ongar was granted £1,150.