Community groups are calling for votes to bag the largest grant from a supermarket chain.

Three community groups are in the running to bag a cash injection from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative.

The supermarket chain has teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme which will provide grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 raised from Bags for Life sales in Tesco stores.

The groups chosen across Waltham Forest are The Limes Community & Children’s Centre, Leyton Community Gardening Club and Hornbeam Centre.

Customers visiting Tesco stores in the borough are able to vote with blue tokens for who they think should take the top grant.

Participating stores include Tesco Express and Superstores in Walthamstow, Highams Park, Leyton, Lea Bridge Road, Chingford and Leytonstone.

The Limes Community & Children’s Centre is hoping to secure funding for communication and design workshops for disabled young people. The organisation intends to run workshops to show young people how to harness their potential and develop skills in artwork design, copywriting, website design and marketing, with industry professionals on hand to make the course accessible and engaging.

Leyton Community Gardening Club is a local community group made up of Leyton families aiming to expand its garden. For the past two years, local children and their families have tended the beds in weekly gardening sessions and share the product that is grown on site. The group wishes to take advantage of an opportunity to expand the site.

The third group in the running for a grant is Hornbeam Centre, looking for funding for its RoyRiders Women and Family cycle club. This involves fun, social bike rides to local green spaces in order for women and children to make new friends from other communities, overcome isolation, get fit and build confidence in cycling.

Voting is open until the end of February.

Tesco's head of community Alec Brown said: ""Bags of Help has been a fantastic success and we’ve been overwhelmed by the response from customers. Local people get to decide how the money will be spent in their community and there are some fantastic projects on the shortlists. We can’t wait to see these come to life in Waltham Forest."

So far the Tesco's Bags of Help project has raised more than £67 million for more than 21,000 projects across the UK.

Groundwork's national chief executive Graham Duxbury said: ""Bags of Help continues to enable local communities up and down Britain to improve the local spaces and places that matter to them. The diversity of projects that are being funded shows that local communities have a passion to create something great in their area. We are pleased to be able to be a part of the journey and provide support and encouragement to help local communities thrive."

Three groups in every Tesco region are nominated for the grants.

Anyone can nominate an organisation online at: www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp.