# Sainsbury’s stores seek local charity partners

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/06/02/sainsburys-stores-seek-local-charity-partners/
- Published: 2014-06-02T17:00:13+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Sainsbury’s stores across the UK are once again inviting their customers to nominate
their favourite local registered charity to become the branch’s charity of the year.
Each selected charity will benefit from fundraising and volunteering from that store’s
staff and customers

Over the past five years, Sainsbury’s stores have raised over £6 million for these
local charity partnerships.

PR Ambassador & Community Representative, Jason Elton from the Kempshott store in
Basingstoke said:

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> “The voting started last Wednesday and our customers have nominated over 70 charities
> via the online nominations. With our post box in the store getting more and more
> suggestions, it will give us a busy selection process when voting finishes on 
> June 8th.”

 

**Editor’s note:** _the video previously embedded here (https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=jtBIXDupwFI) is no longer available._

 

## How to nominate a charity

[Nominations can be made online](http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/localcharity) or within
your local shop. The form is very basic, requiring just the charity’s name, registration
number, contact details, and a reason in no more than 500 words.

**Nominations close on 8 June 2014**.

Each store will then shortlist three charities, who will be invited in to pitch 
to staff.

What are your chances of getting selected? The competition is certainly popular:
last year 110,000 nominations were received.

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