Leading positive change for children and their education in the UK. The Findel Foundation will focus on positively impacting children, their education and their environment, because we care and are passionate about future generations. Follow our brave progress right here.
The Findel Foundation is part of our ESG commitments: ten things we are doing to help make the world a better place by 2025 – and beyond.
Six things we are doing to lead positive change
1.Breakfast clubs.
Ambition:
We will expand our support of the Greggs Breakfast Club Foundation Programme, to support over 500 children per year, focusing on areas of deprivation across all parts of the UK.
Breakfast clubs not only deliver a benefit through providing a meal at the start of the day; evidence suggests there is a direct correlation to improving attainment as a result. Club attendance can also enable parents to secure employment.
We commit to supporting the following through the Greggs Breakfast Club Programme for the next 2 years, with an ambition to expand this even further in future years.
Supporting those areas that need it most to support the wider levelling-up programme.
• Moston Lane Primary, North West/Manchester
• Nottingham
• Scotland
• Wales
• Northern Ireland
• London
Our progress so far
We support one Greggs Breakfast Club and we are in the process of signing up an additional five clubs by the end of March 2023. To date we have now successfully signed up three schools including Moston Lane.
2. Leading positive change.
Ambition:
Our customers have a desire to become more sustainable, however they are time poor. Through our brands, Findel Foundation will help by providing thought leadership, encouragement and incentives.
We will achieve this by:
• Educating our employees.
• Providing guidance, acting as a trusted advisor to our customers, schools and nurseries.
• Working with experts.
• Implementing an eco-dashboard.
• Producing green certificates to reward behaviour.
• Introducing an awards scheme.
• Sponsoring eco-schools accreditations or similar.
• Making it easy to make good choices (e.g. better baskets).
• Facilitating access to green energy solutions and better recycling information.
• Child-led eco-council, providing input into our strategy.
We will lead positive change by actively supporting our customers, schools and nurseries to become more sustainable.
Our progress so far
We have launched our eco-dashboard which sets out the ambitions for the ten things we are doing to help make the world a better place by 2025 – and beyond.
3. Careers.
Ambition:
We will provide experiences of work to 300+ children over the next 3 years. We will support schools in achieving the Gatsby benchmarks by providing experiences of workplaces and encounters with a local employer. This will give young people an insight into future career opportunities, as well as raising aspirations throughout areas that require additional social support. Opportunities include:
• Workplace safaris.
• Work experience.
• Attendance at careers fairs and webinars.
• Participating in mock interviews.
• Mentoring.
• Bring your child to work days.
Our progress so far
We have hosted several workplace safaris, careers fair stands and webinars, plus mock interviews with schools close to our headquarters in Greater Manchester. We have plans in the pipeline to roll out our careers offering in Nottingham which is home to our distribution centre.
4. Charitable support.
Ambition:
Children’s charities are a cause close to everyone’s heart and they are in desperate need of support. We will commit to fundraising on behalf of our nominated charity which supports children and their education in the UK. Any amounts raised by our employees will be matched by Findel.
Additional support in the UK will be funded where a demonstrable purpose and benefit to children and their education is identified, such as:
• Accepting appropriate requests for donations to support delivery of a positive outcome for children.
• Supporting ad hoc charitable donation requests or activity programmes.
• Employee nominate a school or nursery scheme (termly).
• Allowing nominations for appropriate community projects to share part of the Findel Foundation Fund (termly).
We will also potentially work with other charity partners to deliver activities in the community to support children’s wellbeing for example.
Our progress so far
We have held fundraising activities for Derian House including skydives, & sponsored walks. We also provided sponsorships of school sports teams and donated goods and vouchers to schools close to our main locations in Greater Manchester and Nottingham.
5. Volunteering.
Ambition:
So many causes need support within our communities, none more so than education.
By 2028 we will ensure over 30% of our colleagues in permanent locations are engaged in 15 hours or more volunteering to positively contribute to the lives of children and their education in the UK by supporting volunteering projects in these fields:
• Supporting those areas that need it most to support the wider levelling-up programme.
• School governors.
• Community and charity events/projects that directly impact children and their education.
• Assisting with children’s groups and clubs.
• Careers guidance.
• Reading in schools.
• Green volunteering.
Our progress so far
Since launching our volunteering policy in January 2022, 24% of our colleagues have taken part in community volunteering activities, which has positively impacted over 3,100 young people.
6. Findel forest.
Ambition:
To reduce the carbon footprint of those directly impacted by our activities – our people and our customers.
We will achieve this by planting a tree or funding climate projects with our partner Ecologi in the following scenarios:
• Every employee every year.
• Every employee anniversary.
• Every new starter and leaver.
• Customers who switch and save to, or purchase sustainable alternative products.
Our progress so far
We have signed up to Ecologi and this builds on the number of trees we have already planted over past years for a similar scheme. Find out more here
Six things we are doing to lead positive change
1.Breakfast clubs.
Ambition:
We will expand our support of the Greggs Breakfast Club Foundation Programme, to support over 500 children per year, focusing on areas of deprivation across all parts of the UK.
Breakfast clubs not only deliver a benefit through providing a meal at the start of the day; evidence suggests there is a direct correlation to improving attainment as a result. Club attendance can also enable parents to secure employment.
We commit to supporting the following through the Greggs Breakfast Club Programme for the next 2 years, with an ambition to expand this even further in future years.
Supporting those areas that need it most to support the wider levelling-up programme.
• Moston Lane Primary, North West/Manchester
• Nottingham
• Scotland
• Wales
• Northern Ireland
• London
Our progress so far
We support one Greggs Breakfast Club and we are in the process of signing up an additional five clubs by the end of March 2023. To date we have now successfully signed up three schools including Moston Lane.
2. Leading positive change.
Ambition:
Our customers have a desire to become more sustainable, however they are time poor. Through our brands, Findel Foundation will help by providing thought leadership, encouragement and incentives.
We will achieve this by:
• Educating our employees.
• Providing guidance, acting as a trusted advisor to our customers, schools and nurseries.
• Working with experts.
• Implementing an eco-dashboard.
• Producing green certificates to reward behaviour.
• Introducing an awards scheme.
• Sponsoring eco-schools accreditations or similar.
• Making it easy to make good choices (e.g. better baskets).
• Facilitating access to green energy solutions and better recycling information.
• Child-led eco-council, providing input into our strategy.
We will lead positive change by actively supporting our customers, schools and nurseries to become more sustainable.
Our progress so far
We have launched our eco-dashboard which sets out the ambitions for the ten things we are doing to help make the world a better place by 2025 – and beyond.
3. Careers.
Ambition:
We will provide experiences of work to 300+ children over the next 3 years. We will support schools in achieving the Gatsby benchmarks by providing experiences of workplaces and encounters with a local employer. This will give young people an insight into future career opportunities, as well as raising aspirations throughout areas that require additional social support. Opportunities include:
• Workplace safaris.
• Work experience.
• Attendance at careers fairs and webinars.
• Participating in mock interviews.
• Mentoring.
• Bring your child to work days.
Our progress so far
We have hosted several workplace safaris, careers fair stands and webinars, plus mock interviews with schools close to our headquarters in Greater Manchester. We have plans in the pipeline to roll out our careers offering in Nottingham which is home to our distribution centre.
4. Charitable support.
Ambition:
Children’s charities are a cause close to everyone’s heart and they are in desperate need of support. We will commit to fundraising on behalf of our nominated charity which supports children and their education in the UK. Any amounts raised by our employees will be matched by Findel.
Additional support in the UK will be funded where a demonstrable purpose and benefit to children and their education is identified, such as:
• Accepting appropriate requests for donations to support delivery of a positive outcome for children.
• Supporting ad hoc charitable donation requests or activity programmes.
• Employee nominate a school or nursery scheme (termly).
• Allowing nominations for appropriate community projects to share part of the Findel Foundation Fund (termly).
We will also potentially work with other charity partners to deliver activities in the community to support children’s wellbeing for example.
Our progress so far
We have held fundraising activities for Derian House including skydives, & sponsored walks. We also provided sponsorships of school sports teams and donated goods and vouchers to schools close to our main locations in Greater Manchester and Nottingham.
5. Volunteering.
Ambition:
So many causes need support within our communities, none more so than education.
By 2028 we will ensure over 30% of our colleagues in permanent locations are engaged in 15 hours or more volunteering to positively contribute to the lives of children and their education in the UK by supporting volunteering projects in these fields:
• Supporting those areas that need it most to support the wider levelling-up programme.
• School governors.
• Community and charity events/projects that directly impact children and their education.
• Assisting with children’s groups and clubs.
• Careers guidance.
• Reading in schools.
• Green volunteering.
Our progress so far
Since launching our volunteering policy in January 2022, 24% of our colleagues have taken part in community volunteering activities, which has positively impacted over 3,100 young people.
6. Findel forest.
Ambition:
To reduce the carbon footprint of those directly impacted by our activities – our people and our customers.
We will achieve this by planting a tree or funding climate projects with our partner Ecologi in the following scenarios:
• Every employee every year.
• Every employee anniversary.
• Every new starter and leaver.
• Customers who switch and save to, or purchase sustainable alternative products.
Our progress so far
We have signed up to Ecologi and this builds on the number of trees we have already planted over past years for a similar scheme. Find out more here