All Community articles – Page 21
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Features and analysisCoronavirus: Bruce and Donna Morgan discuss reaching out to the community
Bruce and Donna Morgan of Brownlies of Biggar in South Lanarkshire discuss how they’ve helped vulnerable people in the local area during lockdown.
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NewsNisa retailers raise £280,000 for charity
Nisa retailers have supported good causes with almost £280,000 since the start of the UK pandemic.
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NewsGroceryAid launches School Essentials Grant scheme
GroceryAid has launched the School Essentials Grant to reduce the financial impact on parents working in the industry when children go back to school in September.
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NewsSpar Marie Curie fundraising hits £1.5m milestone
Charity Marie Curie has announced that fundraising for families living with terminal illness by Spar UK has reached £1.5 million in the past three years.
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NewsA.F. Blakemore to donate £30,000 to local charities
A.F. Blakemore has launched a Community Cashback Grant scheme worth £30,000 across its Spar stores to thank local charities and community groups for their work during the coronavirus crisis.
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NewsConvenience stores support ‘Stay at Home’ VE Day celebrations
Retailers across the country have helped their customers to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day on 8 May, supporting residents in their bids to hold ‘Stay at Home’ parties in accordance with social distancing rules.
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NewsCoronavirus: Stores support VE Day celebrations despite virus lockdown
Convenience stores across the country are supporting community efforts to mark the 75th Victory In Europe (VE) Day on 8 May, when the Second World War came to an end in Europe.
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NewsWork on Hisbe’s second store starts following crowd-funding drive
The team behind ethical supermarket Hisbe are hopeful that their second store on Portland Road in Worthing will open for business by June, after they secured the £450,000 they needed through a crowd-funding campaign.
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NewsSpar seeks to sell 250,000 bunches of daffodils in Marie Curie charity drive
Spar stores across the UK are selling bunches of fresh daffodils for £1 in support of Marie Curie and its 2020 Great Daffodil Appeal.
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NewsWelsh c-stores’ vital community role highlighted in Local Shop Report
The vital role that convenience stores play in local communities across Wales has been highlighted in the 2020 Welsh Local Shop Report.
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NewsRegional Southern Co-op stores raise £10,000 for local hospice
Southern Co-op stores across Bristol and North Somerset have raised more than £10,000 for a regional children’s hospice so far this year – helped by some inter-store competitiveness.
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NewsSpecialist food shops top list of most-wanted local services, ACS reveals
UK consumers have identified specialist food shops and banks as the most-wanted services in their local area, highlighting opportunities for convenience stores to meet such demand, according to new research by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS).
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NewsCentral England Co-op reports Easter food bank appeal success
Central England Co-operative has donated enough food to create over 11,000 meals and emergency care packages for people in need, as part of the society’s two-week Easter food bank appeal.
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Dear Jac
60 years of service to the local community
They’re shouting it out loud in Leicestershire’s Great Glen
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AwardsCRA 2019 Community Retailer of the Year (sponsored by Camelot): Family Shopper, Blantyre
Colin Ayres from Camelot with Mo Razzaq of Family Shopper, Blantyre
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NewsFiona Addis crowned Sales Assistant of the Year
Staff and customers of Eurospar Ardglass in County Down are celebrating after customer advisor Fiona Addis was crowned Sales Assistant of the Year at the 2019 Convenience Retail Awards (CRA) held in London last week.
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NewsACS calls on government to protect rural c-stores
The government is being urged to ensure a level playing field for the UK’s rural convenience stores, whose owners invested over £271m in providing essential services over the past year.
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Features and analysisHungry for change
Living in food poverty is a harsh reality for a growing number of people in the UK. C-Store talks to c-store retailers trying to help those in need, and looks at what more can be done.
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NewsCommunity-owned shop growth falls for first time
Community-owned shops are in need of a new support package to halt the sudden fall in the sector’s growth, campaigners say.
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NewsWelsh convenience stores invested £44m in 2018, says ACS
Convenience retailers in Wales invested over £44m in their businesses in 2018, with the vast majority coming from retailers’ own reserves despite rising costs, according to the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS).