Pride Month

Pride month and fundraising for Rainbow Youth

Unfortunately, COVID-19 restrictions meant that many of Aotearoa’s usual Pride events had to be put on hold or cancelled this year. While clearly disappointing news for us all, this turn of events made it even more heartening to see our team bringing Pride celebrations to life in our stores and helping to raise money for Rainbow Youth’s incredible mahi. It’s incredibly important that we continue to demonstrate our commitment to inclusion and creating a workplace (and supermarket!) where everyone feels welcome. Supporting organisations like RainbowYOUTH is an important part of this, so we kicked off things with a $30,000 donation and thanks to our customers rounding up at checkout, we were able to raise another $91,000 of funds to support queer, gender-diverse and intersex young people in Aotearoa.

Growing for Good

For the fourth round of our annual Growing for Good grants, we put a call out for innovative, climate change focused projects, and for the first time ever we opened up applications to secondary schools. We received over 150 applications for the grants and were absolutely blown away by the care and consideration each school took in applying. We love that our youngest Kiwis are some of our strongest advocates for climate change action and we’re really proud to support that kaupapa with $63,000 of grants to bring to life projects that will help tackle climate change in early childhood centres, schools and their local communities.

We’ll be announcing the schools that have been awarded grants very soon - keep an eye out!