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Annual
Review
Theodora Children’s Charity
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2017/18
£
£ Our focus
Grant funding Match funding
£ 10m
Our grants help registered Match funding boosts
charities deliver projects which the money that Morrisons
make a positive difference in colleagues raise for their
DONATEDS
IN G R ANT local communities. chosen charities.
550+ Our income
Nationwide funding, £550k We receive all of our
C HAR income from Wm Morrison
BE NE FITIES
ITE D Supermarkets PLC, which
DONATED IN MATCH FUNDIN G
local support
founded the Morrisons
Foundation in 2015.
The Morrisons Foundation supports charities making a positive
difference in local communities. In the last year our funding has
helped more than 550 charities across England, Scotland and Wales. Our trustees
We have a board of eight trustees who set the direction of the Foundation,
Martyn Jones decide its strategy and ensure it fulfils its charitable purpose.
David Potts
Morrisons Foundation
Morrisons CEO
Chairman
“It’s been another good year for the Foundation. “The Morrisons Foundation continues to
In September we reached the milestone of support a range of vital causes. Last year I
donating over £15 million since launch and you had the privilege to attend the opening of
can read about some of the fantastic projects new apartments for wounded veterans at the
we have been involved with in this review. We Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI) village Martyn Jones Guy Mason Kath Tunstall David Scott
have also supported the fundraising efforts of in Aylesford. Funding from the Foundation
Morrisons colleagues from across the business. helped to ensure that these are homes fit for
From national initiatives to projects which true heroes with specialised equipment and
make a positive difference to people in local high quality furnishings. The RBLI is just one of
communities, our funding has gone to charities many inspirational charities the Foundation has
of all sizes. I would like to thank everybody assisted, supporting our commitment to make
John Holden Jonathan Burke Sharon Mawhinney Andrew Clappen
involved for making this possible.” a difference in the communities we serve.”
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Grant funding
Grant funding From children’s charities to homeless shelters,
Our community grants help charities to deliver projects which make and veterans’ groups to hospices, our grants
a positive difference in local communities, and our high value awards have helped charities working in many
support larger initiatives which can reach more people. different fields. Here’s an overview of the type
of causes we have supported in the last year.
47%
Health
29%
Social Investment
14%
Education
5%
Arts & Culture
5%
Other
• Hospices • Community transport • Reading support • Community choirs • Search and rescue
• Specialist equipment • Foodbanks • Employment programmes • Creative arts • Veterans’ groups
• Support groups • Homeless shelters • Special needs schools • Music in hospitals • Children’s charities
From Newquay to
Norwich, and Portsmouth Championing local communities
to Peterhead, in the Every Morrisons store has a Community Champion who
last twelve months our supports charities and community groups in their local
grants have helped good area. As well as championing local causes they also act
as ambassadors for the Foundation by organising cheque
causes across the length
presentations, helping to raise awareness and encouraging
and breadth of England, charities to apply for funding.
Scotland and Wales.
Here Myra Smith, Community Champion from the Morrisons
store in Dumfries, gives her thoughts on the Foundation:
How has the Foundation What does the Foundation How has the Foundation
supported your local mean to you? helped you to work with
community? local groups?
Handing over a cheque to a
The Foundation has awarded local charity is a pleasure and Through the Foundation
grants to a number of good knowing that the donations I have met new charities
causes in Dumfries, and make such a difference is a which I will continue to
matched the fundraising great feeling. It makes me feel support in my role as
of colleagues in my store. proud to work for Morrisons. Community Champion.
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Community grants
Community Grants
Our community grants focus on smaller projects
ranging from a few hundred pounds up to
£100,000. The next few pages offer a glimpse
of some of the projects we supported:
FareShare – Greater Manchester Theodora Children’s Charity
Northern Ballet
FareShare Greater Manchester used We donated £26,466 to Theodora
Our £19,550 donation helped
our £22,495 donation to buy a new Children’s Charity to fund giggle doctors
Northern Ballet to run a dance van and redistribute surplus food for young people with serious illnesses
programme for young people to local community groups. in Nottingham.
receiving support from Martin House
Children’s Hospice in Wetherby. Centrepoint
With our £62,910 donation Centrepoint
delivered a learning programme for
young homeless people in Barnsley.
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Community grants
Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity
We awarded £48,100 to Manchester Children’s
Hospital Charity to create a new sensory room
so that young patients can enjoy a short break
away from the hospital ward.
Downright Special
Our £9,980 donation to Downright
Special provided resources which
help families in East Yorkshire
understand Down’s Syndrome.
Jessie May Trust Brecon and District Mind
With our £22,832 donation, the Jessie May We awarded £28,776 to Brecon and District
Trust has delivered activity sessions and family Mind to run an outreach programme for
fun days for children with serious illnesses and people who are struggling with their
their loved ones in Wiltshire. mental health.
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Community grants
St Gemma’s Hospice
St Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds
used our £7,500 donation to buy
new kitchen equipment, so that
patients, staff and families can
enjoy good quality, healthy meals.
Friends of East Preston School Dover SmART Project
Our £5,000 donation helped Friends of Dover SmART Project received £3,256
East Preston School to replace their old to run a social group for people who
and dilapidated outdoor trim trail. have been diagnosed with dementia.
Groundwork London Wessex Heritage Trust
Our £11,578 donation helped Groundwork We donated £5,000 to the Wessex
London to run a series of activities for Heritage Trust to fund a memory box
people at risk of social isolation. reminiscence project.
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Community grants
Variety, the Children’s Charity Combat Stress
Variety, the Children’s Charity used our Combat Stress received an £8,000
£27,750 donation to buy a new Sunshine donation to run a support programme
Coach for Ysgol Maes Hyfryd School in Wales. for armed forces veterans in Ayr.
London Air Ambulance
We donated £9,625 to fund a new ultrasound machine, which will enable
London Air Ambulance teams to identify life-threatening conditions and
provide vital pre-hospital treatment.
The Bread and Butter Thing Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice St. Andrew’s First Aid
A £39,000 donation to The Bread and Butter Our £20,000 donation to Forget Me Not St. Andrew’s First Aid used our £70,258
Thing bought a new chilled van to provide surplus Children’s Hospice in Huddersfield helped donation to set up two new mobile first
food for disadvantaged families in Manchester. them to buy a new minibus and run activity aid posts in Scotland.
trips for young patients.
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Community grants
London Youth
We donated £49,222 to London Youth
to run a leadership programme for
young people from disadvantaged
local communities.
Blood Bikes Scotland
Blood Bikes Scotland used our £20,000
donation to buy a new motorbike for
their out-of-hours transport service
for local hospitals.
Stepping Stones
Our £5,000 donation helped Stepping
Stones in Fleet to run dance and
drama classes for children with
Down’s Syndrome.
Nell Bank Trust
Applying is simple – charities can visit We donated £20,000 to Nell Bank
morrisonsfoundation.com and follow in Bradford to help them refurbish
the steps to apply for a grant.
their activities centre, which is used
by disadvantaged young people.
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High value grants
High value grants Great Ormond Street
Hospital Children’s Charity
In the last twelve months we have awarded a number
of high value donations to support larger projects and Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity raises “We’d like to say a big thank you
funds to support the hospital’s most urgent needs. As part to the Morrisons Foundation
initiatives. You can find out more about some of the of their child and family support programme, the charity who have donated a fantastic
bigger donations we have made over the next few pages. funds accommodation for parents and families so that they £300,000 to Great Ormond
can stay overnight, nearby when their child is receiving Street Hospital Children’s
treatment. This accommodation provides a home away Charity. These vital funds have
from home for parents from across the country. enabled us to create brand new
communal areas and kitchens
We have donated £300,000 to fund the communal areas at
in our parent accommodation
the charity’s brand new accommodation, which is just a short
facilities, which are making
walk away from the hospital. The accommodation will provide
a real difference to seriously
a vital lifeline for people like Barry Day and his family. Barry
ill children treated at
is a Morrisons Store Manager whose daughter Rosie was
the hospital.”
diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy and received
extensive treatment at the hospital.
Amit Aggarwal
“I don’t know what we would have done without parent Director of
accommodation whilst Rosie was on intensive care for all Corporate Partnerships
those months. It means a lot to me and my family to know
that the Morrisons Foundation is helping to fund something
so important to us all and it makes me really proud to work
for the store.” – Barry Day, Morrisons Witham Store Manager.
£300,000
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High value grants
“We are delighted that
St John Ambulance the Morrisons Foundation
is supporting local
communities across
In October last year we donated £507,000 to St John
the country by funding
Ambulance, to support a nationwide rollout of fully
such important lifesaving
automatic defibrillators in Morrisons stores across
devices. These simple
the country.
to use defibrillators
These sophisticated devices can dramatically improve can help give people
the survival chances of a person suffering cardiac arrest. the best possible
Voice prompts guide users every step of the way and chance of survival
help rescuers deliver potentially life-saving care correctly following an occurrence
and confidently. of cardiac arrest.”
Each defibrillator is available for community use, so that
Mark Farmer
help can be on hand should an emergency occur.
Director of
£507,000
First Aid Services
“We are very excited about
Marie Curie the redevelopment and
incredibly thankful to the
Marie Curie provides care and support for people living Morrisons Foundation.
with any terminal illness, and their families. Last year the Their generosity will allow
charity cared for over 40,000 people across the UK through us to improve the lives
its hospice care, nursing services and volunteer support. of many more people in
Bradford. Our hospice is
We supported Marie Curie’s hospice in Bradford with
a place of peace, comfort
a £487,000 donation to help create a state-of-the art
and respite. It’s about
outpatient unit which will improve the lives of terminally
enabling people to live
ill patients and their families.
as well as possible for as
The existing day therapy unit will be extended to provide long as possible.”
a larger space with new and improved facilities and a brighter,
more welcoming environment. The new outpatient unit will Jo Whincup
have an extended lounge, rehabilitation kitchen, larger gym Hospice Manager
and new consultation rooms.
£487,000
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Walking With The Wounded
Walking With The Wounded supports ex-servicemen
and women back into independence after they leave the “The very generous grant
armed forces, helping to provide long-term security and from the Morrisons
employment for themselves and their families. Foundation is allowing
us to launch our regional
With our £332,000 donation, Walking With The Wounded
presence in the North
has developed a project in Gateshead which provides early
East. For us it is crucial
intervention services to ex-servicemen and women who are
that we have this hub
homeless, without a job or struggling with their mental health.
in the region. Out of
The hub will also provide short-term accommodation and
this hub we can support
professional employment support.
vulnerable veterans and
The development in Gateshead follows the success of the their families who live
charity’s hub in Manchester, which has supported more than in the North East. Our
200 men and women since launching in 2015. thanks to the Morrisons
Foundation for making
FareShare
£332,000
this happen.”
FareShare redistributes good quality, in-date We have donated £107,000 to support
Edward Parker
food that would otherwise go to waste, FareShare’s move to a larger site and
Co-founder and CEO
to charities and community groups that provide more food for more people, and
support vulnerable people. By ensuring that it is anticipated that over 140 local charities
good food is not wasted, FareShare turns an will be supported from the new premises.
environmental problem into a social solution.
The FareShare Southern Central operation “The opportunity to move to a larger premises
has experienced rapid growth to support the will be transformational for communities in
number of people affected by food poverty Hampshire, Wiltshire, Surrey and Dorset and
and currently works with charities providing we’re delighted to be able to support more
food to more than 11,000 people every week. people with good food thanks to the
Morrisons Foundation.”
Lindsay Boswell
CEO
£107,000
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Noah’s Ark Children’s
Hospital Charity
Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital Charity raises funds The incubators help to protect babies
for the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales. from the sensory bombardment of a
noisy intensive care unit and ensure
The charity launched its Tiny Lives appeal with the
that the correct temperature can be
aim of raising £1 million to support the neonatal
kept to support their individual needs.
unit at the hospital, which provides life-saving
The X-Ray machine works with the
treatment for over 560 premature and critically
incubators and allows hospital staff
ill babies from across Wales each year. It is also
to X-Ray their young patients without
the only place in Wales which provides treatment
removing them from their incubators.
for neonatal babies in need of surgical care.
They also provide instant results so
We supported the Tiny Lives appeal with a that babies’ needs are resolved far
£208,000 donation, which will provide state-of- quicker than was previously possible.
the-art incubators and a new X-Ray machine.
£208,000 “The new equipment has been
invaluable to us in treating the
extremely vulnerable babies in
our care. X-Ray imaging is used
on a daily basis and the new
incubators help us nurture the
most unwell babies in our care.
We’d like to say a big thank you
to the Morrisons Foundation”
Michelle Phillip
Ward Manager
21 22Match funding
Rachel Clapham Simon Galvin
Match funding
From Morrisons
Rachel Clapham from Simon Galvin from
stores, depots, factories
Wakefield ran the London Keighley raised
and head office, our
Marathon and raised £2,215 £2,065 for Brain
match funding has helped
for the Stroke Association. Tumour Research
Match funding supports the charities that colleagues’ fundraising
by completing a
Morrisons colleagues spend their time fundraising go further.
Tough Mudder.
for, and provides a cash boost to their efforts.
Richard Daniels Deborah Bye
Richard Daniels from Deborah Bye from Blyth
Catcliffe raised £2,010 completed a skydive for
for the Sheffield Hospitals Muscular Dystrophy UK,
Charity by taking part in raising £2,137.
a wing-walk challenge.
Val Gaughan Rosie O’Connor
Val Gaughan from Malton Rosie O’Connor from
completed the Great Bradford raised £2,255 for
North Run, raising more The Ear Trust by completing
than £1,100 for Yorkshire the Manchester Marathon.
Cancer Research.
Jo Bothamley
Katie Lycett
Jo Bothamley from
Buxton raised £1,400 Katie Lycett from
for Scotty’s Little Soldiers Barnsley completed the
by running a 5k. Bubble Rush, raising £620
for Barnsley Hospice.
2 Sarah Tilly
£ 1k x
PER
PE R
YE AR
Match funding for up to £1,000 per application
is available for Morrisons colleagues twice a
Sarah Tilly from Sittingbourne
raised £1,570 for the National
APPLICATION year. Find out more and apply online Society for Phenylketonuria by
running the Brighton Marathon.
at morrisonsfoundation.com
23 24Match funding Nicola Cole Courtney Skinner Adele Whorton
Nicola Cole from Courtney Skinner from Adele Whorton from
Northampton raised Hartscliffe survived a ‘Jail Idle raised £1,510 for
£1,934 for the Cynthia and Bail’ event raising £1,514 Sue Ryder by finishing
Spencer Hospice by for the Children’s Hospice the Great North Run.
completing a skydive. South West.
David Thompson
David Thompson from
Stamford completed the
NightRider London 2017 raising
£1,410 for the Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation.
Mark Ricketts
Heather Johnston Effie Sampson
Mark Ricketts and the
Heather Johnston from Effie Sampson Worsley PCUK cycle team
Bellshill took part in the from Bacup finished completed a 276 mile trip
Kiltwalk Glasgow raising a colour dash to raising over £3,800 for
more than £1,780 raise £340 for Prostate Cancer UK.
for the Les Hoey Rossendale Hospice.
Dreammaker Foundation.
Rob Mandry
How you can get involved
Phil Payne
Shaun Schofield Everyone Charities Colleagues
Let more charities Complete a grant Apply online for
Rob Mandry, Phil Payne
know about us and direct application to apply for match funding to give your
and Shaun Schofield from
them to our website. funding for your project. fundraising an extra boost.
Bognor Regis rode their
bikes from London to Paris
raising over £6,000 for the
How to apply
Chestnut Tree Hospice. To complete an application simply head to morrisonsfoundation.com
and follow the steps for either a grant or match funding.
25 26Find out how we can help at morrisonsfoundation.com Registered charity England and Wales (1160224) and Scotland (SC045634) Company number: 09104264. Registered address: Hilmore House, Gain Lane, Bradford BD3 7DL
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