We’re rounding off 2024 with another round of supermarket shopping to support more foodbanks where our customers live.
Efficiency East Midlands (EEM) invited Futures to its community Christmas event for a festive get together and opportunity to collectively donate to local foodbanks. Futures was one of 60 local businesses who helped fill a whole stage full of shopping bags and boxes of essential food items and toiletries.
We were able to fund the almost £100 supermarket shop by spending the Nectar points our colleagues had collected from topping up their work vans.
Scott Bacon, Plumbing Engineer at Futures who came up with the company Nectar card idea said: “The reality is, life and circumstances are hard and sometimes you find you or your family are in situations that are out of your control.
“Foodbanks are a lifeline for a lot of our customers, so while we have to fuel the vans anyway, the upside to that is indirectly we’re putting food on the tables of families that are struggling to eat.”
One of the foodbanks EEM’s donation is going to is South Normanton Area foodbank, which will support our customers and community around South Normanton and Alfreton.
Janene Haywood, Community Engagement Project Delivery Officer at Futures said: “Colleagues regularly use this foodbank to support our customers, so we know how important it is for the community.
“EEM kindly make a community contribution towards our customer projects each year, so their event made it the perfect opportunity to spend the remainder of this year’s Nectar points and give something back to them and our customers.”
