Sainsbury's Local Fundraising
Sainsbury’s is committed to making a positive difference in our local communities by working with Comic Relief and Neighbourly to tackle food poverty now and in the future. We fund initiatives that help communities access balanced, nutritional, and sustainable food, as well as supporting projects that help prevent people and communities falling further into food poverty. One of the key ways we do this is through our in-store fundraising efforts.
Sainsbury's Store Support Centre Volunteering
We launched our Store Support Centre (SSC) colleague volunteering programme in 2024.
Our volunteering supports our community strategy and Plan for Better ambitions, with SSC colleagues playing a hands-on role in supporting local communities and good causes.
Our colleagues are passionate about making a difference in our communities, and there are lots of ways for teams to get involved. Whether it’s sorting food in the warehouse to be redistributed to communities, using cooking skills to prepare food parcels or getting their green fingers busy on a nature reserve.
Sainsbury’s Good food for all of us school kitchen grants
As part of Sainsbury’s ongoing commitment to make good food easy and accessible for everyone, working to ensure no child or family goes hungry, we have allocated a new community grant fund specifically for schools. The grants will support schools to upgrade their kitchen facilities, to help them provide healthy and nutritious meals for children.
Sainsbury's Good food for all of us Stardust Grants 2025-26
Sainsbury’s has launched a new Good food for all of us stardust community grant fund 2025-26 to support communities to become more food secure.
Food is at the heart of our business, and we strive to make good food joyful, accessible and affordable for everyone, every day. We believe everyone should have access to balanced, nutritional, and sustainable food, but unfortunately that’s not always the reality. Our community and partnerships work aims to address the key drivers of food poverty, which continue to be exacerbated by increasing costs of living.
Sainsbury's Good food for all of us community grants 2026-27
Sainsbury’s Good food for all of us community grants help support communities throughout the UK. The fund involves Sainsbury’s and Argos stores, depots and store support centres nominating good causes to apply for grants of £500 or £1,500. The grants help good causes, charities, schools, CICs and community groups with projects helping people access food and/or tackling the issues and causes of food poverty.
Since 2021, the grants have donated more than £5 million to local good causes.
Food Donation
In 1998, we launched our Food Donation Programme, so our stores can give surplus food to local charities and good causes. Working with Neighbourly, our Sainsbury’s stores will continue this great work in order to support local communities gain access to food. This is part of our commitment to providing Good food for all of us, that includes helping tackle food poverty.
Sainsbury's Good food for all of us community grants 2025-26
Sainsbury’s Good food for all of us community grants to help support some of the most vulnerable people and communities throughout the UK. The fund involves Sainsbury’s and Argos stores, depots and store support centres nominating good causes to apply for grants of at least £500. The grants help food-related good causes, charities, CICs, and community groups with projects that aim to tackle the issues and causes of food poverty.
Sainsbury's Good food for all of us community grants 2024-25
Sainsbury’s Good food for all of us community grants (previously known as Helping Everyone Eat Better Community Grants launched in 2021) to help support some of the most vulnerable people and communities throughout the UK. The fund involves Sainsbury’s and Argos stores, depots and store support centres nominating good causes to apply for grants of at least £500. The grants help charities, CICs, and community groups support projects that aim to tackle the issues and causes of food poverty. Through this fund, we will work with local organisations to support projects over the next few months that directly support their beneficiaries using their service.
Sainsbury's Helping Everyone Eat Better Community Grant Fund 2023-24
Sainsbury’s has launched a Helping Everyone Eat Better Community Grant Scheme to help support some of the most vulnerable people and communities throughout the UK.
The fund involves Sainsbury’s and Argos stores, depots and store support centres donating grants of at least £500 to help charities, CICs, and community groups support projects that aim to:
- Help people to access food, and/or
- Tackle the issues, barriers and causes of food poverty
Through this fund, we will work with local organisations to support projects over the next few months that directly support their beneficiaries using their service.
Sainsbury's Volunteering 2023
In 2023 Sainsbury's is trialling an employee volunteering programme to help support some of the most vulnerable people and communities throughout the UK. Open to the Property and Procurement teams, volunteering will support the Nourish The Nation community programme, by supporting good causes that are helping to tackle food poverty in the local community.
Sainsbury’s Helping Everyone Eat Better Community Grant Fund 2022-23
Sainsbury’s has launched a Helping Everyone Eat Better Community Grant Scheme to help support some of the most vulnerable people and communities throughout the UK.
The fund involves Sainsbury’s and Argos stores, depots and store support centres donating grants of £500 to help charities, CICs, and community groups support projects that aim to:
- Help people to access food, and/or
- Tackle the root causes to help lift people out of food poverty
Through this fund, we will work with local organisations to support projects over the next few months that directly support their beneficiaries using their service.
Help Brighten a Million Christmases 2021
Between 1st-24th December 2021, Sainsbury’s and Argos stores across the UK raised money for a range of good causes as part of their Help Brighten a Million Christmases campaign.
The money was raised via fundraising by store staff, as well as customers who were invited to offer financial and food donations both in-store and online.
Sainsbury’s Argos has matched all financial donations and physical food donations, donated between 1st-24th December, up to a maximum of £1.5 million across all Sainsbury's and Argos locations. For physical food donations, Sainsbury’s has matched items with a cash equivalent.
The money will be distributed to FareShare and other local food donation partners. Neighbourly is one of the third-party organisations we are working with to support with the disbursement of funds to local store partners, with a portion of the overall total paid via Neighbourly to the good causes listed below.
Sainsbury’s Helping Everyone Eat Better Community Grants Fund 2021-22
Sainsbury’s has launched a £1 million grant fund to help support some of the most vulnerable people and communities throughout the UK.
The fund is donating grants of £500 to help charities, CICs, and community groups support projects that aim to:
- Help people to access food, and/or
- Help lift people out of food poverty
Through this fund, we will work with local organisations to support projects over the next few months that directly support their beneficiaries using their service.
