# Tesco raise over £6.1 million for Marie Curie Cancer Care

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/04/01/tesco-raise-over-61-million-marie-curie-cancer-care/
- Published: 2009-04-01T10:02:27+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The most successful Tesco Charity of the Year partnership to date has seen Tesco
staff and customers raising over £6.1 million for Marie Curie Cancer Care.**

The total follows 14 months of fundraising in stores, distribution centres and offices
across the UK.

The money raised will help fund over 300,000 hours of nursing care for over 5,000
terminally ill patients and their families in their own homes.

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Lucy Neville-Rolfe, Corporate and Legal Affairs Director, Tesco, said: “Our partnership
with Marie Curie Cancer Care has been so successful because working with our local
communities is important to our staff and customers. That’s why we chose Marie Curie
Cancer Care as our Charity of the Year – Marie Curie Nurses provide nursing care
in homes across the UK and everyone can understand the difference that they make
to local communities”.

Staff fundraising accounted for £3 million, half of the total raised for Marie Curie
Cancer Care.

The Tesco Charity Trust added a 20% ‘top up’ to all staff fundraising, boosting 
the total by over £500,000.

Collections held at Tesco stores on February 29 and March 1 2008, as part of Marie
Curie Cancer Care’s Great Daffodil Appeal, raised £536,000 for the charity. Staff
volunteered their time to collect and customers donated more than ever before.

Two clay pigeon shoots organised by Tesco Distribution workers raised over £133,000.

Two hundred stores in the North of England and Scotland held a lottery draw which
raised £80,000 for the charity.

Throughout the partnership a range of products was available in Tesco stores where
a donation from every sale went directly to the charity. These generated £1.2 million.

Every time staff and customers withdrew cash, checked their balance or changed their
PIN at all ATMs at Tesco, a donation was made to Marie Curie Cancer Care – at no
cost to the customer. Over £40,000 was raised.

www.mariecurie.org.uk

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