***Marks and Spencer Community Programme

Archived Community and neighbourhood development Community development Education and learning good relations Health, wellbeing and sport Overseas aid and development World issues Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales Micro (up to £1,000)

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Overview

Donations of products and equipment

Donate unsold clothing, food and unwanted equipment to a range of charity partners including Shelter, Oxfam, Newlife Foundation and FareShare.

National fundraising partners

Help raise funds for a range of national charity partners covering environment, poverty and exclusion and health & wellbeing through a calendar of activities. These currently include: Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Butterfly Conservation, Groundwork, Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Keating Foundation, Oxfam, Prostate Cancer UK, Shelter and WWF. They select these partners to fit with our business. They select the recipients of funds raised from our charitable Christmas cards from these existing partners.

Local charities

They support a large number of local charities through an annual Charity Challenge fundraising event as well as store charity budgets. Store charity budgets can provide small (up to £50) donations to local charities including schools and hospitals that are within their policy.

Marks & Start

Launched in 2004, Marks & Start, provides work experience opportunities for disadvantaged parts of society.

Supporting employees

They encourage employees to become involved in their local communities. They provide one day’s paid time off for volunteering, matching funds for fundraising groups (of five or more), employee volunteer awards and payroll giving facilities.

Major disasters

Before they make any commitment to supporting a major disaster, they consider the real needs, the requests from customers and employees and whether the disaster has occurred in a region of the world where they have strong links either through our stores, offices or suppliers. They decide what to do for each major disaster on an individual basis.

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