Co-op

As a member, every time you shop at Co-op, 1% of what you spend on selected own-brand products and services goes to the local community fund.The money raised by all the members in your community, together with money from shopping bag sales, helps to fund local projects in the area where you live. Since September 2016, we've raised a total of more than £20 million. You can choose which cause you want your own 1% to go to. Any money raised by members who don't select a cause is added to the money raised from shopping bag sales and shared equally between the causes in their local area.  We choose new causes every 12 months. 

The support of our local Coop store on Long Furlong Drive has been a tremendous help to us for almost two years.  The staff has tirelessly promoted our activities to customers and even made a Halloween Hamper for a raffle prize in 2017.  Last year’s donations from Coop members 1% to us alone raised over £4,900!! During Xmas 2018, they raised over £240 for us from a collection bucket as well as a Xmas Hamper raffle which was donated to us from Borras Construction.  They to have rallied behind us and it is the support of the local community in little ways like this that make all the difference to us as a small charity.