Marks & Spencer's Your Green Idea competition offers £100,000 to winner's chosen charity

Howard Lake | 18 March 2010 | News

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Marks & Spencer’s new ‘Your Green Idea’ competition is now open for entries, and offers the chance for someone to win £100,000 to spend on ‘greening’ an organisation of their choice, such as a school, a local community group or a charity.
‘Your Green Idea’ invites people to share their ideas for new, positive ‘green actions’ that M&S could implement under Plan A, its environmental and ethical plan.
Entries must be received by the end of 16 May 2010. M&S’ panel of experts will select the best three green ideas which will be put to a public vote later in the year. The final winning idea will be implemented by M&S and rolled out across its over 700 UK stores within the next year.
M&S has launched several Plan A customer-led initiatives over the last three years. For example, the Oxfam Clothes Exchange has seen M&S’ customers recycle four million garments, and carrier bag charging means that over 80% of customers now bring their own bags to M&S when shopping, saving over 600 million food bags.
www.yourgreenidea.co.uk

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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.