22nd September 2016: Local supermarket is making massive
contributions to its community.
It is fairly unheard of, supermarket chains making massive
contributions to the charities and people that are local to their store. I
spoke to community champion, Liz Beddall, who is in charge of organising all things
charitable at Morrisons in Gamston, West Bridgford and there is a lot more
going on than you’d think.
Morrisons have a whole range of ways that they can support
organisations. Liz told me “It isn’t just fundraising events that we do, we can
lend our meeting rooms out to people and even provide tea and biscuits, you
could come in a pack bags to raise money, we can do tours of our shop and if
that isn’t convenient, we can even come to you”.
Over the years, Morrisons have supported a wide range of
charities, including The Friary homeless shelter in West Bridgford, Emmanuel
House, Dannielle’s Flutterbyes and The Ear Foundation. Liz has had the role of
community champion for the last three years and in that time she has helped
raise over £11,000 for Sue Ryder. Every month, Morrisons also raise money for
an employee-chosen charity. “It has been really rewarding to be able raise a
little bit of money for 12 charities a year, especially when they all mean so
much to a different employees”.
“I just really enjoy getting involved, all of the events that we
take part in are really fun. It is great chatting to a range of people and
finding out why they have got involved in the charity themselves” Liz told me.
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