CYSTIC FIBROSIS HOLIDAY FUND
- Every year we help to fund holidays and short breaks for children and young people (under 25) with Cystic Fibrosis
- As many as 9,000 people in the UK suffer from this debilitating disease
- CF dominates their everyday routine and halves their life-span
- Going on holiday also gives respite and relief to their families, friends and carers
- With your help more CF-sufferers could enjoy the holiday of a lifetime and do something they have always wanted to do – from taking a round-the-world trip to spending a weekend in London or Paris
- They all need our help and we need yours
Daniel and his girlfriend Mary travelled across America
Thank you Waitrose shoppers!
Each month, under its Community Matters scheme, every branch of Waitrose donates £1000 which is shared by three local charities. The scheme works like this:
- All three charities produce a poster, advertising what they do, which is placed above a collection box near the exit of the supermarket
- At the checkout customers receive a green token which they place in the collection box of one of three local charities as they leave the supermarket
- The more tokens a cause gets, the bigger the donation they receive
- We are delighted to report that Waitrose Edgware Road presented the CF Holiday Fund (a local charity – we are based in nearby Bell Street) with a Community Matters cheque for £398 in December
- We would like to thank all the customers who put their tokens into our box for helping to support the CF Holiday Fund
- On 6 January this year the Prime Minister presented the Big Society Award to Waitrose for its Community Matters scheme which has now raised £10 million for charities nationwide