Tag: Asda

Asda donates £100k to FareShare support Muslim community groups, across the month of Ramadan

Stuart Mitchell

Supermarket retailer Asda has announced that during Ramadan it will be donating thousands of pounds to FareShare to support Muslim charities and community groups across the country. Through its charity partnership with food redistribution charity FareShare, Asda is enabling hundreds of vulnerable families access to food which might otherwise have gone to waste, through the 11,000 charities and community groups FareShare supports. On top of this donation, our community champions will be able to donate £10,000 worth of food and goods to support Muslim communities local to our Asda stores.…

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George at Asda teams up with historical charity to encourage kids to get outside and grow

Stuart Mitchell

George at Asda have collaborated with the UK’s leading gardening charity, The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), to create a new kidswear clothing and accessories range for kids aged 1-7 years The collection has been designed to encourage kids to get outside and ‘grow’ and features unique prints with joyful, hand-drawn illustrations of smiling vegetables, bright garden tools and colourful tractors. The kidswear range, which starts from age 1 and runs up to age 7, features slogans encouraging kids to reconnect with nature and to grow their own plants and veg,…

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Asda removes more than 100m pieces of single use plastic from its stores

Stuart Mitchell

Supermarket Asda is removing 101m pieces of single use plastic from its stores each year by switching from plastic to reusable fruit and veg bags. The move follows a 9-store trial and following positive customer and colleague feedback, Asda has now decided to remove all single-use plastic fruit and veg bags from its stores across the UK, instead offering customers a reusable alternative. Priced at just 30p each, Asda’s reusable bags offers customers an affordable, reusable alternative to single-use plastic fruit and veg bag, which are made from 100% recycled…

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George at Asda launches clothes recycling scheme which rewards customers for bringing back unwanted clothes

Stuart Mitchell

In partnership with Yellow Octopus Group, Asda has launched a new ‘Take Back’ scheme which supports customers to recycle their unwanted clothes and textiles with ease. Customers will receive a 10% off voucher for George.com when they pack up their old and unwanted clothes, returning them to one of the retailers participating stores which can be located through the store locator page. The ‘Take Back’ scheme provides customers with a label or QR code so they can drop their clothes through Asda’s ‘toyou’ click and collect service. The move is…

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Asda donates over half a million meals from its depots

Stuart Mitchell

In partnership with food redistribution charity The Bread and Butter Thing (TBBT) Asda has donated nearly half a million meals to support those in need. Supporting those most in need across the region, Asda has donated surplus food equating to 534,848 meals, which have been distributed to thousands of families. In April 2020, TBBT experienced a 460% increase in need year-on-year due to the Coronavirus pandemic and, in the following months to December, membership grew by 50% from 8,000 to 12,000 members with the charity providing 3.2m meals, which have…

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