Thank you to everyone who supported our Tickled Pink weekend at Asda Hartlepool. We have an amazing team who joined in by baking cakes, making afternoon tea, dressing up in pink and donating prizes for our colleague tombola.
I'm proud to support our local community in delivering food parcels to families affected by Covid-19 in so many ways. As community colleagues we can play our part in being the heart of our communities and being there to link groups together and help build a stronger network so in times of crisis we can join together to be proactive and reactive where necessary to help in any way we can to make a change for good.
We donated food to Gosport Trash Cafe who are offering free children's meals this week. They offer free children's meals in all of their cafes during all school holidays and have done so for years.
We donated food and drink to Loving Hands community outreach team to give out to local families they support throughout the week with food parcels. They have 33 kids who potentially wouldn’t have had lunch this week.
A massive thank you to our bakery section leader Emma and her team for once again sorting the barmcakes for St Leonard's packed lunch initiative this week.
I was pleased to be able to team up with YMCA, Free food in Sandown and The Beach Hut Bembridge to supply food to be made up into free packed lunches for children this half-term.
We teamed up with our Burnden Park store to help St Matthew's C of E Primary School receive a Healthy Holidays grant for £500 from the Asda Foundation.
Lynda and her team at Stratton Baptist Church have been amazing throughout the pandemic supporting families in the Swindon area with food parcels, meals in bags and activities for children. During the school holidays she asked if we could donate items to support families who usually are entitled to a free school meal ... we were more than happy to help.
I recently teamed up with Elaine from Asda Colchester to make an extra-special donation to Colchester Hospital. Sarah and Jenna are specialist play therapists at the hospital. They had a wish list and between our two stores we managed to get them almost everything they wished for.
We have sticker and activity books to promote healthy eating to donate to local schools. Philippa from the admin team at Whinfield Primary School came to collect some for the children to use in their lessons.
We're donating almost £100,000 to provide families with access to food during the school holidays.The donation, which is funded jointly by Asda and the Asda Foundation, will be given to our community…
Unfortunately, this Christmas we can't have local choirs and bands in store. However, to make sure we're bringing some festive spirit to our store this year we will be inviting local groups to appear on Asda Radio in December.
We've had a really positive start to our networking events with over 40 groups signing up to join and it’s been great to see people and find out how they are getting on.
Jane, a Post Office colleague, is celebrating five years' service and while Post Office manager Richard is celebrating 13 years'. Richard has worked various departments and recently just become our manager. Massive congratulations to you both from all colleagues and team leaders in store.
