From lolly moulds to toilet roll – how product giving can positively impact your organisation
Thursday 27th August 2020, 15.00 – 16.00, Online
Are you a charity, school or community group providing practical care and support?
Are you a manufacturer or retailer striving to make more impact and with goods to donate?
Do you want to know more about In Kind Direct and how you can help?
We launched a new series of virtual events to bring together manufacturers, retailers and charities to celebrate the power of product giving. At In Kind Direct, we believe everyone deserves access to life's essentials and no usable product should go to waste. We work alongside hundreds of companies and thousands of charities and together provide vital supplies to millions of people each year.
In our first session we heard from Flying Tiger Copenhagen, our lead donor from our recent ‘Holiday at Home’ Summer campaign and Renewal Trust, one of our charity partners delivering amazing services across Nottingham. You’ll also find out more about In Kind Direct’s COVID-19 response and impact, including initial findings from our latest research.
Over the last 10 weeks, the generosity of the companies we work with has been immense, but we are all too aware that the need for products will grow as the longer term impact of the crisis is felt by many. The charities we work with are delivering vital services tirelessly and with fewer resources than before. The coronavirus pandemic has been a huge test for everyone. With announcements of recession, and growing unemployment figures, financial uncertainty is affecting more and more people and organisations across the UK. Our latest research tells us the families and communities our network supports are managing tighter household budgets and are struggling to access essentials like handwash and nappies, as well as toys, stationery and laundry supplies.
This Summer, we’ve launched initiatives to meet the need for vital supplies to keep people clean, safe and entertained. Whether that’s toilet roll, hand sanitiser and cleaning sprays, or toys, games, toiletries and even lolly moulds! Our current campaign ‘Back to Basics’, provides life’s essentials for school, work and home as children go back to school and community centres start to re-open.
Couldn’t join us? Watch the recording below
In this webinar we talked about:
- In Kind Direct’s COVID-19 response and impact, including initial findings from our latest impact research
- Why manufacturers and retailed should embrace product giving and the positive impact it brings
- The story of Flying Tiger Copenhagen’s work with In Kind Direct to achieve their social responsibility goals
- A sneak peek at our future campaigns and how to get involved
Featured Speakers
Rosanne Gray
CEO, In Kind Direct - Rosanne Gray is our new Chief Executive. For the past eighteen years she has worked in a variety of organisations from large corporations such as Shell, entrepreneurial start-ups to foundations focused on developing solutions to social and environmental problems. From founding CottonConnect, a global business transforming the world’s cotton supply chains, leading the Virgin Foundation (Virgin Unite) for one of the world’s best known entrepreneurs to most recently running a tech start-up that empowers small companies to get online, she has harnessed the power of business to transform people’s lives. When not at work Rosanne can most often be found swimming in the lochs of Scotland, finding a hill to climb or returning to Southern Africa which is her second home.
Trine Pondal
Trine Pondal is the Sustainability Manager for Flying Tiger Copenhagen, where she oversees everything from social compliance audits over circular economy to charity projects. Before Flying Tiger she worked in a similar role for PANDORA. She sees herself as a circular economy ambassador and is adamant to optimize the use of resources in the complex supply chain of Flying Tiger. The company has stores in 30 countries and warehouses in 5 locations on 3 continents. Flying Tiger has worked with In Kind Direct for several years.
Chris Morling
Business Development Manager, In Kind Direct - Chris attended Durham University and led several charitable initiatives with students in Northumberland and County Durham. On graduating he continued his charity work both where he grew up in the West Country and abroad. Before working at In Kind Direct, Chris worked for the largest social integration charity in the UK, working on youth development but later moving into a role focusing on public affairs and networking. At In Kind Direct Chris manages a portfolio of our corporate partners including some of the UK’s best known manufacturers and retailers.
Nic Williams
Community Lead, Renewal Trust - Nic joined the Renewal Trust as Community Lead in September 2019, following a 23 year career in education. The Renewal Trust is a nationally-recognised regeneration charity working with people of all ages in Nottingham. The charity supports people in the way that’s right for them, at different times in their lives. Sometimes that means giving people practical support, like helping them to find the right job, other times it means giving people the opportunity to shine, by helping them discover a new sport, nurture talent, fund passion or to just simply feel inspired.