waitrose giving money away to local charities

[Janeyk]

well done Waitrose 

[Pinkbear (Julie)]

The Waitrose in Ramsgate chose a local group Cats In Crisis to be one of their monthly charities a while back. 

[Dawn F]

ooh good, I hope some of the smaller charities give it a try as well

[Reynard]

Ah well in our Waitrose one of this month's charities is Ely & District CP! 

Mind, I think they got bombarded with requests from just about all the committee and all the volunteers (including yours truly) so guess they had to relent in the end.

Me, well I've been saving up my till tokens for just this kind of occasion...

Oh yeah, and it's on our website too: www.ely.cats.org.uk 

[clarenmax]

I went into my local Waitrose this afternoon, and one of the charities is Woking Cats Protection 

Can you guess which one I chose 

[Christine (Blip)]

From The Grocer, 9 August 2008:

'Waitrose is rolling out its community initiative nationwide [my emphasis] following a successful trial at four stores.  The Community Matters scheme will raise £2.3m for almost 7000 local charities and other good causes in the next 12 months. Each store is allocated £1,000 a month to donate to three local community projects...'

[Dawn F]

I've posted about his in the general section and i know not everyone has a waitrose locally but if you do

http://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/Display.aspx?MasterId=a4e17b78-fb5b-40d2-9499-46154da7dd91&NavigationId=1235

basically they are splitting £1000 every month between three charities voted for by shoppers, might be worth looking into