Product Giving Alliance distributes £68m worth of goods & services in a year
Melanie May | 28 June 2021 | News
The Product Giving Alliance, founded in May 2020 by In Kind Direct, FareShare, Charity Digital and International Health Partners, has distributed £68m worth of goods and services in its first year.
The Product Giving Alliance was founded to help distribute donated products, services and surplus in an efficient way to people in communities around the UK and overseas.
So far, it has supported over 16,700 charities and communities throughout the UK and overseas.
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- In Kind Direct has distributed 8m hygiene products, including handwashes and toilet roll and continues to support nearly 250,000 people every week with essentials
- Charity Digital has helped save £13m on discounted tech software including Zoom and Microsoft
- FareShare has provided 131.9m meals to vulnerable people and has donated 5.2 tonnes of food
- International Health Partners has provided 9.1m medical treatments, supporting around 3m people including the support of Covid-19 patients in low and middle-income countries
In Kind Direct’s network of charitable organisations have seen an 80% increase along with continued demand for their services since the beginning of 2020. To meet this growing need, the Alliance is calling on more businesses around the country to make donating products and services a key part of their sustainability development and business strategies, with more information available here.
The CEOs of the organisations involved in the Alliance: Rosanne Gray, In Kind Direct CEO; Jonathan Chevalier, Charity Digital CEO; Lindsay Boswell, FareShare CEO; and Adele Paterson, International Health Partners CEO commented:
“For those families, and individuals that have struggled to access food, toiletries, medicine or technology during lockdown, the continued work of the thousands of charitable organisations the Product Giving Alliance supports is vital. We make donating the easy option for companies, as well as giving them the confidence that their products achieve real impact.
“We encourage more businesses to see what is possible and step up however they can. The Alliance proves that coming together really can make an enormous difference. Using the combined expertise from food, healthcare and technology charities means we can reach an enormous amount of people who need these products . We want to keep up this momentum, and encourage any businesses in these areas to come forward with products or services to donate.”
Main image: FareShare
About Melanie May
Melanie May is a journalist and copywriter specialising in writing both for and about the charity and marketing services sectors since 2001. She can be reached via thepurplepim.com.