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Making A Difference Locally
by 55 North
CHARITY: 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.
Scarborough-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 tins and coin spinners, such as those situated in Proudfoot stores. The charity has raised almost £13m to date and supported charities and other good causes with around 15,000 donations.
Proudfoot’s latest donation was of £5,000 to Scalby and Newby Village Trust, to help complete a new, fully accessible front entrance to the Temperance Hall in Scalby. With the new access in place, plans are afoot to use the upstairs space to create a regular pop-up cinema, rehearsal space for local groups and musicians, gallery space for local artists, and meeting space for community groups.
Proudfoot stores have also supported good causes with over £65,000 in funds raised via the carrier bag charge in its stores.
Valerie Aston, Proudfoot Director, said: “MADL allows us to develop stronger relationships with good causes and the local community, and enables us, as an independent retailer, to support some very worthy local groups in need of extra funding.
“I have had the pleasure of own-brand products. Funds are also raised seeing first-hand the differvia in-store collecting tins and coin spinners ence our donations can make and am delighted that we have been able to support some fantastic initiatives and services with these funds over the years – huge thanks to our wonderful customers who make these donations possible and for their continued support.”
