Branch

Each month every Waitrose branch donates £1,000 (£500 in Convenience shops) between three local good causes that you choose. At the checkout, you’ll receive a token. Just place it in a box of the good cause you’d most like to support. The more tokens a cause gets, the bigger the donation they receive. Find your nearest branch.

Online

Every three months, Waitrose.com shares a donation of £25,000 between three national causes - and we ask for your help to decide who gets what. At the end of your shop, you will be asked if you’d like to nominate one of three good causes who will receive a share according to the number of votes - just as we do in our branches. Click on the ‘vote’ button to make your selection.
Start your online shop here.

Age UK

Marine Conservation Society

Mencap

New technologies have transformed the way people live, learn, work and play. For many, the use of technology and access to the internet is fast becoming a basic part of daily life. Yet 6 million people in later life have never used the internet.

Age UK provides free information, advice and support to over 5 million people; products and services to over 1 million customers; and we research and campaign on issues that matter to people in later life.

We believe that older people should be supported to effectively engage with technology.

Age UK manages a number of UK-wide digital inclusion programmes, including the Digital Inclusion Network, consisting of 200+ partner organisations; Connect with IT, a comprehensive digital inclusion campaign involving itea and biscuits week; myfriends online week; Internet Champion of the Year; and IT Volunteering.

Our IT training ranges from basic taster sessions to gaining a nationally recognised qualification. We currently help 200,000 people in later life each year to learn more about the benefits of technology.

By selecting to support Age UK, your money will enable us to expand our reach and ensure more people are digitally included.

The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is dedicated to protecting our seas, shores and wildlife. MCS acts as a voice for our seas to ensure that consumers understand that sustainable seafood is the right choice, more people than ever know the dangers of marine litter, and sea users understand why protection of certain marine sites is so vital.

With your help MCS is starting a sea change that will benefit our oceans for generations.

Your support will help us stop the senseless waste of fish that are being thrown back in to the sea, dead, after

trawler crews land catches on deck, which contain hundreds of surplus stock.

More than 1 million fish are discarded like this every day in European waters. Bycatch or discards, include species that could be bought and cooked in the same way as cod and haddock – gurnard, pollock, dab, pouting and whiting for instance. This is a diabolical waste of food that could be on our plates.

Waitrose has been taking action on the crisis in our seas by working with MCS to ensure the seafood they sell is as sustainable as possible.

As a result, they were awarded a ‘silver’ rating in the 2011 Marine Conservation Society Supermarket Seafood Survey and received a commendation for the Best Wild Caught Policy among the leading supermarkets. Waitrose also sells no fish on MCS’ ‘Fish to Avoid’ list.

Now you can take action by voting for the Marine Conservation Society. With your help we can continue to work hard to make the changes needed to secure the future of our seas.

The excitement of becoming a new parent is a feeling that thousands of people experience every year. Imagine the worry parents feel when their baby is diagnosed with a learning disability. The days that follow the birth can be a traumatic time for parents.

They must begin to come to terms with the idea that their child has a lifelong disability.

From birth, parents have to fight for the specialist therapies and extra educational support their child needs. Finding it harder to learn and communicate often means that children with a learning disability become socially isolated, lose all confidence in themselves and their future.

As teenagers and young adults, when the time comes to finding their first job, they face widespread discrimination leading to endless rejections.

Mencap believes every person with a learning disability should have the chance to get a job. Our employment and training services enable them to develop the skills they need for the workplace. We support people to find, and stay in, employment, and to make the most of their experiences as employees.

With your support, Mencap will maximise these kinds of opportunities for people with a learning disability. Through our Employ Me project, we can provide people with a learning disability with training and help

prepare them for employment. We will also work closely with local businesses to identify work opportunities and provide practical on-site support to each company looking to recruit.

Most people with a learning disability just want to work, and would be enthusiastic about any opportunity to do so. The impact on any one individual can be life-changing – an increase in confidence, for example, could help them become an active member of their community. Families as a whole will also benefit – those living on low incomes, for example, from increased earnings.