Spar Scotland pledges £26,000 to green charities during COP26

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Spar Scotland has this week launched a project to donate £26,000 to environmental schemes chosen by their customers during the COP26 Glasgow climate change conference.

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The effort will run until 12 November and involve the Scottish retail group contributing £1000 each to 26 different green groups.

Colin McLean, Spar Scotland’s chief executive, said: “We are asking customers, employees and the general public to nominate charities, community groups or projects.

“We are looking for local litter picking groups, planting trees and recycling initiatives, community social projects, green space developments and many more green ideas that happen in local communities around Scotland to support.

“They will then be in with a chance to receive a £1,000 cash donation from Spar Scotland.”

Spar has already started many of its own permanent green initiatives in Scotland, including not sending any of its waste to landfill and recycling cardboard.

It is also a green world ambassador, planting 100 trees this year in partnership with the Green Earth Appeal and it washes 5,000 trays a week for suppliers, which reduces plastic in the supply chain.

McLean said: “Corporate social responsibility sits at the heart of our transformation journey and with COP26 taking place in Scotland this year, we wanted to use the event as a platform to focus on improving the environment and social matters within the communities in which we operate.

“Our donations will hopefully help local communities and if successful we intend on making this an annual initiative and building on what we donate this year.”