Asda Spaces and Places

‘Spaces’ may be Asda stores, where we encourage community connections and giving, while ‘Places’ are in the surrounding neighbourhoods, where we build community resilience through Community Champion outreach activities, colleague volunteering and grants from our charity, the Asda Foundation. 

Small grassroots organisations play a vital role in their community, making positive change and improving people’s lives every day, but the challenge for many is having the appropriate space and place to bring people together to deliver their fantastic work. To address this issue, we have launched new spaces within our stores, providing access to safe and inclusive spaces for community groups to meet and bringing people together. 

We opened eight new community rooms in Bristol Whitchurch, Beckton, Maryhill, Antrim, Livingstone, Runcorn, Barnsley and Llanelli in 2023 giving us a total of 18 community rooms. We have further community rooms planned in 2024. The provision of rooms, alongside additional store space, helped us deliver 9,174 donations of space in Asda stores across 14,111 days to groups such as the Loneliness Network & Breast Cancer Now support groups.