Nominations for Sainsbury’s local stores’ charity of the year close on 14 May

Howard Lake | 4 May 2013 | News

Over 1,000 Sainsbury's stores are each inviting nominations of local charities to be their charity of the year. Nominations are open from 1 to 14 May 2013.

For the past five years Sainsbury's stores have partnered with a local charity of their choice for 12 months. Each charity benefits from fundraising and volunteering by staff. Each store chooses its charity in May.

How to nominate

Nominations for Sainsbury's Local Charity can be made by Sainsbury's staff or customers by:

• filling out the nomination forms in local stores and posting it in the nomination box
   
• downloading and completing the nomination form and posting it in the local store
   
• emailing your nomination to lo***********@***********co.uk. Include the name and address of your local store, the charity's contact details, and the reason you are nominating that charity.

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Over the past four years these partnerships have raised over £5 million for local charities, and generated over 7,000 days of volunteer support from staff.

Last year over 100,000 nominations were made.

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