Doing Good Together Fund launches today
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Published 11 Sep 2024 in Colleagues
From today, members can make an even bigger difference to local good causes through the Doing Good Together Fund. Find out more about the change and what it means here.
We are thrilled to announce even more support to communities, giving a helping hand to local causes with our new Doing Good Together Fund.
The Doing Good Together Fund (DGTF), which launches today, means that more money will be made available to good causes local to you.
Here’s how it works…
What is the Doing Good Together Fund?
Before we launched Doing Good Together, we asked our members what they wanted from their membership. As well as getting better value when they shop, they also wanted to give back more to their local community.
With our members’ agreement, we’ve introduced the DGTF to do just this.
Every time a member spends with us, they earn points, the first 1,000 Share of the Profits points a member earns will be donated to the DGTF and distributed to local good causes.
A helping hand for local causes
Our Doing Good Together Fund provides small grants to community causes in need of support.
How does it work?
It’s all about supporting local good causes that are important to our members and empowering our site managers to make the decisions to direct funds to those who need it most.
Our colleagues know better than anyone where there is the greatest need for funding in their local community. That’s why our site managers are now empowered to allocate the money raised by members by trading at their sites.
Members can apply directly for grants through the members’ app. Site managers then decide who will receive grants of up to £100 (overseen by the DGTF Committee, made up of senior leaders and Board/MEC members). Larger grants will be approved by the DGTF Committee.
Launching the fund
All our sites will be displaying point of sale materials to promote the fund, this includes posters and on shelf messaging as shown here.
Members will be able to find out more and apply for a grant by scanning the QR code in-store, visiting our website or the members app.
If you know of a local good cause that would benefit from a grant from the Doing Good Together Fund or you want to find out more click here.