Month: July 2017

The group was chosen by customers and colleagues in 2016/2017 and received support from the store for the past year including fundraising and awareness raising.

Customers and colleagues took part in a range of activities to raise money for the charity including awareness stands, bag packing, bucket collections and charity pot collections in store. The money raised will be used to help with charity events and help with patient care.

Andy Robins, Store Manager at Sainsbury’s Nine Elms Point said: “We’ve really enjoyed working with Royal Trinity Hospice over the past 12 months. Our customers and colleagues worked really hard to help raise vital funds for the charity and we’re really proud with everything we’ve achieved.”

Caitlin Austin, Fundraising Manager, added: “We’d like to thank the Sainsbury’s customers and colleagues in Lambeth/Wandsworth for their support over the past year. It has made such a difference to the charity and we’re extremely grateful for the donations and awareness we’ve been able to raise.”

At the end of June, customers were given the chance to vote in store and online for the store’s new charity partner with Tooting and Balham Sea Cadets receiving the most votes.

The Local Charity scheme is now entering its ninth year and has raised over £13 million to support local charities since 2009.

With live music, cake and dog shows, sports and spoken word.

All in a relaxed picnic environment to end the Pride Festival.

More info – www.prideinlondon.org/pride-in-the-park/

From 12:00 – 21:00

This year we will be putting a perimeter fence around our event site. It will go up on Friday 7th July and be taken down on Monday 10th July.

You will be able to use the park as normal on Friday and Saturday using the multiple entrance points in the fence.

This is our schedule for Sunday:

• 06:00 – 11:30 Perimeter fence entrances are closed and event is set up
• 11:30 – 12.00 Final checks on event site
• 12:00 Event starts
• 21:00 Event finishes
• 21:00 – 23.30 Event packs down

We would like to make all visitors coming to the Picnic or wishing to walk through the fenced event space, on their way to another destination, aware that we will be operating bag searches. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. It is important to note that the bag searches and perimeter fences are measures that do not relate to any specific threat, but are part of our enhanced security procedures.