Amazon Chesterfield team packs essential kits for charity
Added by Love Business East Midlands | 25 July 2024
UPDATED: 30 July 2024
Amazon employees at the Chesterfield fulfilment centre have packed and donated 300 kits of essential items worth £1,500 to a charity that supports people impacted by poverty.
The kits, which contained water bottles, plasters and activities, were donated to In Kind Direct. In Kind Direct is a charity who support over 520,000 people each week across the UK with products they need to keep clean and well. Amazon has had a long-standing partnership with In Kind Direct.
One of the employees from Amazon in Chesterfield who took part in the packing event is Chloe. She said:
“In Kind Direct is a fantastic organisation and I’m proud to join forces with my colleagues to support the charity. I enjoyed packing the kits and I’m happy to contribute to something making a real difference in our community.”
Kaitlin Marian, Corporate Partnerships Manager from In Kind Direct added:
“Many people are having to make the decisions between heating, eating or staying clean. Unfortunately, toys and games for children tend to go to the bottom of the list when other essentials take priority. These kits will go straight to organisations supporting children to ensure they have access to the products they need to keep happy and healthy during the summer months and help relieve some of their stress. Thank you to the Amazon team for their support.”
Outside Global Month of Volunteering, Amazon supports the communities where it operates and has delivered free computer science and STEM education programmes to more than 700,000 students across the UK through Amazon Future Engineer.
Amazon helps community organisations transport meals and other essentials to families in need through its pro bono logistics programme, Amazon Local Good, including more than seven million healthy breakfasts to children at risk of hunger in partnership with Magic Breakfast. And through its Multibank initiative, co-founded with former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Amazon has supported more than 200,000 families experiencing poverty, with the donation of more than 2 million surplus essential goods.
Amazon partners with Comic Relief to help people tackle poverty and is the official home of the charity’s iconic Red Nose. Together with its employees, customers, and partners, Amazon has raised over £4.8 million to fund projects that support people who struggling with the cost-of-living crisis and tackle issues such as homelessness, mental health problems, and food insecurity across the UK, and around the world.
