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Local Retailer Donates Money to Groarty Integrated Primary School

06/07/2010

Local retailer Whitehouse Retail Group of Buncrana Road, Derry, Belfast, has donated £1,495 to local good cause Groarty Integrated Primary School, which will use the funds to purchase garden equipment to enable the children to grow flowers and vegetables in the school’s grounds to encourage them to take an interest in the environment.

Whitehouse Retail Group has been raising money for its local community through the sale of specific products in store and has been able to donate the money raised with the help of the charity Making A Difference – Locally (MADL). The MADL charity was formed in May 2008 with the intention of assisting more than 2,000 independent retailers throughout the UK with raising money for their local communities. The charity works by a specified amount of the cost of certain products promoted instore being allocated to the retailer’s MADL charity fund. For instance, this month for every 2.5kg bag of Heritage white potatoes purchased in store, 3p of the sale will go into the retailer’s MADL fund to be donated to their chosen charity.

The charity was created by Nisa-Today’s and Costcutter Supermarkets and the stores participating in the scheme are all members of Nisa-Today’s or independent retailers who are part of the Costcutter Supermarkets Group.

Lisa Ryan, store manager, commented: “Whitehouse Retail Group is very pleased to make this donation to the local school. Getting the children interested in growing their own flowers and vegetables will aid their development and help them to gain an understanding of the importance of nature and the environment. The MADL charity enables us to help the local community and we look forward to making many more donations in the future.”