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Midcounties Co-operative edges closer to £500,000 charity target

Midcounties Co-operative edges closer to £500,000 charity target

The Midcounties Co-operative is close to smashing its £500,000 target for charity partner Teenage Cancer Trust after chief executive Ben Reid launched a 12 Days of Christmas fundraising drive across its food stores. Reid kicked off the Society’s programme of festive

11/12/2014 | Convenience and independent retailers, Retail News, Retailer News | Read More

Carrefour partners with PowaTag to facilitate donations to top French charity event, Telethon

Carrefour has partnered with PowaTag to introduce a new channel for donations to the Telethon, one of the most important charity events in France, in the retailer’s 50 biggest supermarkets across France on 5 and 6 December. This innovative solution enables the public

05/12/2014 | Retail News, Retail Technology, Retailer News | Read More

Retailers’ charity efforts go unnoticed by consumers, Give as you Live survey finds

A massive 87% of Britons believe their favourite retailers are failing to support good causes, according to a study by Give as you Live, which works with stores to help online shoppers donate a percentage of their bill to a worthy cause. Research

05/11/2013 | Data Time, Research | Read More
Spar and P&G raise £5,421 for ChildLine with donations from sales of Daz Auto Powder

Spar and P&G raise £5,421 for ChildLine with donations from sales of Daz Auto Powder

Spar UK and P&G have teamed to raise a fantastic £5,421 for ChildLine, thanks to sales of Daz Auto Powder. P&G donated 48p to ChildLine for every case of Daz purchased by four Spar wholesalers – Appleby Westward, James Hall

04/11/2013 | Convenience and independent retailers, Manufacturer news, Retail News | Read More
AF Blakemore fresh foods directors swim channel for Breakthrough Breast Cancer

AF Blakemore fresh foods directors swim channel for Breakthrough Breast Cancer

Two AF Blakemore Fresh Foods Directors have taken the plunge for the third year running and completed a two way swim of the English Channel in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer. The six man relay team, known as Pips Channel

31/07/2013 | Retail News | Read More

The Co-operative Food ties with P&G to raise £300,000 for charity, Carers Trust

The Co-operative Food is teaming up with consumer goods manufacturer, Procter & Gamble (P&G), to raise £300,000 for The Co-operative’s Charity of the Year, Carers Trust. From 17 July to 27 August 2013, money generated from the sales of a wide

18/07/2013 | Convenience and independent retailers, Retail News, Retailer News | Read More
Blakemore Foodservice raises £6,000 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Blakemore Foodservice raises £6,000 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Employees from Blakemore Foodservice have donated £6,000 to Birmingham Children’s Hospital through 12 months of fundraising initiatives. Employees nominated Birmingham Children’s Hospital as their charity of the year for 2012/13 and held a number of fundraising activities throughout the year

02/07/2013 | Food service, Retail News, Wholesaler news | Read More

Electronic charity box, Pennies, raises £3m and produces promotional video

Pennies, the electronic charity box, is celebrating its second anniversary and reports it has grown 100% in the last year and raised over £3m this year. The scheme is backed by major UK businesses, MP Nick Hurd, ex-BBC broadcaster and CEO

04/12/2012 | Retail News, Retailer News | Read More

MandMDirect helps Teenage Cancer Trust via sales of clearance Olympic stock

Online fashion retailer, MandMDirect, claims it is set to give a significant boost to Teenage Cancer Trust by donating 10p from each sale of Official Olympic merchandise to the charity. The discounted fashion and sports brands retailer is the official

07/11/2012 | Online retailers, Online retailing specialist, Retail News, Retailer News | Read More

Co-operative to fundraise for young carers charity, Carers Trust, in 2013

The Co-operative has chosen the young adult carers charity, Carers Trust, as its Charity of the Year, 2013. The charity was formed in April this year when The Princess Royal Trust for Carers and Crossroads Care came together. It is now set

05/11/2012 | Convenience and independent retailers, Retail News, Retailer News | Read More
Primula donates £25,000 to school for children with learning difficulties

Primula donates £25,000 to school for children with learning difficulties

Primula, the squeezy cheese brand, has donated £25,000 to two deserving projects at Gibside School in its home town of Gateshead. The donation, raised by Primula’s owner, The Kavli Trust, through sales of products has funded a disabled access minibus,

28/11/2011 | Retail News | Read More

Co-operative teams up with Cadbury Twirl to raise money for Mencap

The Co-operative has teamed up with Cadbury Twirl to raise £50,000 for Mencap and ENABLE Scotland, the retail group’s charity of the year. Cadbury Twirls, featuring a Mencap fundraising message, will be available in around 3,900 Co-operative food stores across the

15/06/2011 | Convenience and independent retailers, Retail News, Retailer News | Read More

Tesco raises £7.2m for children’s cancer charity

Tesco has raised a record £7.2m to help leading children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent, Tesco Charity of the Year 2010, pioneer new ways of caring for children with cancer. Tesco said the partnership, which ended in February 2011, has exceeded

08/04/2011 | Retail News, Retailer News | Read More
Domino’s Pizza celebrates 25th anniversary

Domino’s Pizza celebrates 25th anniversary

Domino’s Pizza, the UK’s number one pizza delivery company, has celebrated its 25th anniversary, and marked the occasion by giving away pizza at its Luton store, the first branch opened by the chain in 1985. The local community in Luton

08/10/2010 | Food service, Retail News | Read More

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