Asda will be donating £100,000 to FareShare to support charities and faith groups during Ramadan. Asda has donated over £10 million in five years to help FareShare support over 10,500 charities across the country. “We’re extremely grateful for Asda’s ongoing support and we’re proud to be working hard to get good food to communities and faith groups throughout Ramadan and all year round.”Lindsay Boswell, Chief Executive, FareShare The donation will support food contributions made by Asda, with the equivalent of 6.6 million meals donated by its stores depots and home…
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New data from iStock shows an increase in UK businesses supporting Ramadan in 2021
As the Holy Month of Ramadan ends, iStock, a leading global source of visual content, can reveal more UK businesses are searching for content for advertising campaigns in support of “Ramadan” and “Eid”. Year on year iStock customers increased searches by 20% for visuals of “Ramadan” and an increase of over 80% for searches of the traditional Arabic greeting “Eid Mubarak”. UK businesses are also increasing their searches for visual content that represents the UK Muslim community as a whole. From 2019 to 2020 iStock saw an increase in searches…
Read MoreAsda donates £100k to FareShare support Muslim community groups, across the month of Ramadan
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.…
Read MoreChildren Help Create Babyshop’s Ramadan Message During COVID-19
The month of Ramadan is a time when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk, meet families and their communities, give to charity, remember the year gone by and resolve to be better as individuals. This year, Ramadan across most parts of the world began on Friday, April 24. But it’s going to be an unprecedented Ramadan due to COVID-19 crisis. Families won’t be able to get together, people are unwell and anxious, doors previously open are closed and cities previously bustling with Ramadan markets and gatherings are locked down. An…
Read MoreUNHCR launches global #HandinHandcampaign, a powerful message of unity urging the world to remember the plight of refugees this Ramadan
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, this Ramadan intensifies its efforts to support the overwhelming number of families torn apart by war and violence and who are struggling to provide for their families. The agency has launched today its global campaign #HandinHand to raise awareness around the pressing need of refugee families, particularly women and children, for vital support and cash assistance. In line with these efforts, UNHCR has kicked off a visual campaignthat will air across the globethroughout Ramadan. “Projections of Hope” aims to connect families throughout the region with…
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