Fundraising from Spar NI store teams and shoppers has broken through the milestone amount of £1,000,000 for Marie Curie, enabling even more community nursing for those who need it the most.
The partnership between Spar NI and Marie Curie NI has been active since 2017 and has seen the retail brand put its full support and its own creative ideas behind some of the charity’s biggest campaigns, including The Great Daffodil Appeal and the Blooming Great Tea Party.
In fact, it was the recent Blooming Great Tea Parties in stores which raised £52,975 and pushed the fundraising total to £1,024,167.
With stores in every community across Northern Ireland, fundraising is led by local retailers, store managers and their teams who value and enable accessible services for their neighbourhoods, which includes care from Marie Curie community nurses.
Paddy Doody (above left), sales and marketing director at Henderson Group, which owns the Spar brand in Northern Ireland, said: “We’re thrilled to reach this monumental milestone for Marie Curie. Over the past eight years, we’ve been so proud of the passion and support our retailers have given to this partnership, while engaging with the many fundraising initiatives our marketing team has rolled out.
“Sadly, so many have had their own friends and family members rely on support from Marie Curie’s community teams and at the east Belfast Hospice, which only serves to drive them to help even more.”
Peter McBride (right), who owns 16 Spar stores in Northern Ireland and has contributed significantly to the partnership added: “I’m incredibly proud of the store teams for the passion and pride they have for our local communities and the organisations that mean so much to us all.”
Conor O’Kane (centre), senior partnership manager at Marie Curie, added: “This is such a special milestone to reach with Spar NI, and it’s the result of the commitment and engagement of every store across Northern Ireland. To have received over one million pounds from one corporate partner in just eight years is incredible, especially as Marie Curie marks 60 years in Northern Ireland.”
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