It’s a little too cold in our warehouse in January, but throughout 2019, 140 corporate volunteers helped us get great product donations ready to be delivered across the UK.

Spring saw the launch of our new online catalogue! Your feedback helped us improve key features like showing new arrivals and making it easier to update your basket.

We were delighted to join forces with Directory of Social Change to bring exclusive benefits to our network, with savings on training, events and funding resources. Click here to find out more.

The response to our photo competitions was fantastic – filling our office with amazing photos of product giving in action. Thank you to everyone who got involved, we can’t do it without you!

Flying Tiger Copenhagen donated 10 lorry-loads of new housewares, toys and craft supplies in February! By May, almost 750 organisations had placed orders, supporting carers in London, families in the Scottish Highlands, school groups in Gloucestershire and more!

“In Kind Direct allows us to extend the work we do reaching more people in the community.” Thanks to the 971 organisations that responded to our annual survey. We published our Impact Report, Providing Life’s Essentials in June. Click to find out more.

Our newest partnership with Enterprise began, bringing extra savings on vehicle hire. You spoke and we listened, helping to lift the barrier that transport can be for people to access available support. Click to find out more.

Our 3rd Big Picnic welcomed hundreds of children, carers and volunteers, check out the highlights. This year was our greenest ever - recyclable water cartons, paper decorations and a ban on plastic and cellophane in our food bags.

Free to download, we launched our Impact Assessment Guide for Charities with PwC, providing practical steps wherever your organisation is on its impact journey. Shaped and piloted by five of our partners – click to get your copy today.

Our 10,000th charity partner received their first order this month! Together, our network supports thousands of people across the UK and overseas. If you’re not already with us, join for free today!

99 generous companies donated goods in 2019, including 39 new donors joining our community this year. A huge thank you to them for providing a range of essentials and more for you and those you support.

We bid farewell to our founding CEO, Robin Boles LVO after 22 years in post and welcomed her successor, Rosanne Gray: “I am delighted to have joined In Kind Direct as we move into a new decade. Thank you to all our donors and charity partners for the incredible impact you are having on people’s lives.”