CHARITY
MAKING A DIFFERENCE LOCALLY PROUDFOOT GROUP
Proudfoot stores reaches £100k charity landmark The Scarborough-based retail chain is celebrating a fundraising milestone donation made through Nisa’s Making A Difference Locally charity.
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carborough-based retailer Proudfoot Group is celebrating a fundraising milestone donation this month after recently supporting a number of local causes. The independent supermarket group, which operates four stores in the area, has to date donated more than £100,000 to almost 200 local charities and other good causes through Nisa’s Making a Difference Locally (MADL) charity. The charity raises funds in Nisa-affiliated stores from the sale of Co-op and Heritage own-brand products. Funds are also raised via in-store collecting groups and musicians, gallery space stronger relationships with good causes tins and coin spinners, such as those for local artists, and meeting space for and the local community, and enables situated in Proudfoot stores. The charity us, as an independent retailer, to support community groups. has raised almost £13m to date some very worthy local groups and supported charities and other Proudfoot raises funds in Nisa-affiliated in need of extra funding. good causes with around 15,000 stores from the sale of Co-op and Heritage “I have had the pleasure of own-brand products. Funds are also raised seeing first-hand the differdonations. Proudfoot’s latest donation was via in-store collecting tins and coin spinners ence our donations can make of £5,000 to Scalby and Newby and am delighted that we have Village Trust, to help complete a new, Proudfoot stores have also supported been able to support some fantastic inifully accessible front entrance to the good causes with over £65,000 in funds tiatives and services with these funds Temperance Hall in Scalby. With the raised via the carrier bag charge in its over the years – huge thanks to our new access in place, plans are afoot to wonderful customers who make these stores. use the upstairs space to create a regular Valerie Aston, Proudfoot Direcdonations possible and for their conpop-up cinema, rehearsal space for local tor, said: “MADL allows us to develop tinued support.”
WEDNESDAY 25TH AUGUST 2021 / ISSUE 70 / SLRMAG.CO.UK / 19
