Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation
The Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation aims to raise money to support a range of good causes – national and local, helping adults and children alike.
We have traditionally chosen a lead Charity of the Year each year as the focus for our main fundraising efforts. In 2011 our Charity of the Year was Alzheimer’s Research UK, for which we raised more than £1.2 million for research into early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. In 2010 we supported Help for Heroes, and raised £1.5 million to help them provide direct support to those service personnel wounded in the service of their country in current conflicts. Between 2005-2009 our adopted charity was the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Imagine Appeal, for which Iceland raised more than £3 million.
Iceland was a founder member of the Per Cent Club in 1986, pledging to donate 0.5 per cent of its profits to charity each year. Our long track record of support for good causes includes:
|
Year |
Donations |
Principal beneficiaries |
|
2011 |
£1,570,000 |
Alzheimer’s Research UK, Prostate Cancer UK |
|
2010 |
£1,616,500 |
Help for Heroes, Prostate Cancer UK, Save the Family |
|
2009 |
£890,000 |
Alder Hey, Prostate Cancer UK |
|
2008 |
£1,013,000 |
Alder Hey, Prostate Cancer UK |
|
2007 |
£526,000 |
Alder Hey, Prostate Cancer UK |
|
2006 |
£140,000 |
Alder Hey |
|
2001-2005* |
£216,000 |
Childline, Breast Cancer Campaign |
|
1999 |
£390,000 |
Alder Hey |
|
1998 |
£105,000 |
|
|
1997 |
£119,000 |
|
|
1996 |
£307,000 |
|
|
1995 |
£409,000 |
Petö UK |
|
1994 |
£369,000 |
Petö UK |
|
1993 |
£335,000 |
Petö UK |
|
1992 |
£280,000 |
Petö UK |
|
1991 |
£254,000 |
Petö UK |
|
1990 |
£232,000 |
|
|
1989 |
£178,000 |
|
|
1988 |
£49,000 |
|
|
1987 |
£36,000 |
|
|
1986 |
£14,000 |
|
|
Total 1986-2011 |
£9.0 million |
Over £3 million to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital £1.5 million to Help for Heroes £1.2 million to Alzheimer’s Research UK £1 million to Petö UK’s new National Institute of Conductive Education Over £400,000 to Prostate Cancer UK |
* Iceland’s ‘Dark Ages’, during which the company was under different management, profits collapsed and support for good causes was curtailed.
In 2012/13 we have pledged to raise a further £1 million for Alzheimer’s Research UK, to help fund a crucial study to improve early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. Any funds raised during the year in excess of that £1 million, up to a further £1 million, will be donated to Walking With The Wounded for their work in the re-training and re-education of wounded servicemen and women.
