# John Lewis Partnership launches £1 million community support fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/03/20/john-lewis-partnership-launches-1m-community-support-fund/
- Published: 2020-03-20T12:14:22+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**John Lewis Partnership has launched a £1m community support fund to be distributed
across the country “at this time of national crisis”.**

 

 

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The John Lewis Community Support Fund will be available to communities across the
UK “to help those in need in their local communities”. No date of its availability
or confirmation of whether or how charities could access it has been published.

 

 

 

[At launch it was stated](https://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/media/press/y2020/jlp-announces-new-measures-to-support-customers.html)
that the distribution of funds will be determined by teams of staff or ‘partners’
in each shop, working together with their communities.

 

 

 

Help might include setting up additional local delivery services to support the 
self-isolating, the vulnerable, the elderly and those looking after them. It could
involve delivering boxes of staples to local care homes and community groups, and
donating products to create care packages for customers to share with vulnerable
neighbours. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

## Other community support

 

 

 

The John Lewis Partnership is also planning to support communities by exploring 
ways in which its staff can provide services to customers isolated in their homes.

 

 

 

For example, expectant parents seeking important nursery advice for example could
book an online session with a specialist nursery advisor to help them plan the key
things to think about before their baby arrives. Other services could include wellbeing
advice; craft and cookery classes provided by Partners online, or on one-to-one 
calls.

 

 

 

The partnership is also instituting actions to support its staff. For example they
will be offered free meals at work during the crisis.

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