Company of the Year winner cuts back on community programme

Howard Lake | 26 July 2004 | News

According to The Guardian Marks & Spencer is cutting back its community programme, including staff secondments to charities and the 10% top-up on staff donations to charities.

Only two weeks ago, as reported by UK Fundraising, Marks & Spencer won the award for Company of the Year in the Business in the Community awards.

The company itself denies that it is reducing its commitment to corporate social responsibility. A spokeswoman told The Guardian that the company was consolidating its activities, that it would remain a member of the 1% Club, and that some of the activities being closed were being replaced by other new activities.

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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.