left to right: Zoe Moat (Co-op Member Pioneer), Catherine Kirkham (Northumberland Wildlife Trust Fundraising Manager) and Michael Craven (Store Manager, Co-op Wideopen). Image by Fiona Dryden.
Cash boost from Co-op Community Donation Fund
Northumberland Wildlife Trust has received a £150 donation from Co-op Food in Wideopen in support of its Better Health at Work award qualification.
The very generation donation comes from the Co-op Community Donation Fund that allocates £150 to each of the company’s stores and will be used to purchase healthy snacks for the wildlife charity’s staff and volunteers to keep them fuelled as they work to conserve wildlife on its nature reserves.
Two of the Trust’s reserves - Big Waters and Weetslade Country Park - are within a stone’s throw of the Great North Road store and visited regularly by many of its thousands of customers.
The decision to donate to the Trust was made by Wideopen Co-op Food store manager Michael Craven and Co-op Member Pioneer Zoe Moat.
Run by NHS England and supported by ten local authorities and TUC Northern, the Better Health at Work Award recognises the efforts of employers in the North East and Cumbria in addressing health issues within the workplace.