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

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/03/18/marks-amp-spencer039s-your-green-idea-competition-offers-100000-winner039s-chosen-charity/
- Published: 2010-03-18T01:21:09+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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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.

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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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