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My, we’ve grown!

Its official.  Like a beautiful spring flower, we’ve blossomed and grown recently. We’re delighted to welcome two new members to the team; namely Jo Laker, our new Fundraising Manager and Barbara Howland, our new Grants Administrator. This gives us a more focused approach to fundraising and communications and gives us more potential for more events, more fundraising, developing social media and the opportunity to tell you more about what, how and why we do what we do. For more information on all the members of The Body Shop Foundation team, check out http://thebodyshopfoundation.org/what-we-do/meet-the-team/.

Check out what our USA volunteers are doing NOW!

Read all about it!  Well, that’s certainly what our volunteers and friends over at Wake Forest, North Carolina have been doing!  The Body Shop is the presenting sponsor of Bookmarked! , a two-week series of events to benefit Lucy’s Book


Introducing another remarkable volunteer; Sandy Tompkins

Yes, gather around all, its that time again – time to recognise and set off a rocket of recognition across the sky for one of our USA volunteers; Sandy Tompkins. Sandy, like so many of our USA volunteers, works at our


Introducing Glenna Pierce, USA volunteer extraordinaire!

This week, we’re shining a light on the work that our volunteers do.  Not only do they juggle a busy workload but they ALWAYS find time to volunteer for The Body Shop Foundation at our Wake Forest Head Office. So let


Our volunteers are the BEST!

Okay, we’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – our volunteers are the absolute best!  Not only does Dania volunteer for The Body Shop Foundation but she’s a real softie when it comes to our four legged friends. So


We work with some pretty amazing people….

Let me tell you about Janina….Janina works in the HR Department at our Americas Head Office in Wake Forest.  Janina is a keen supporter of The Body Shop Foundation but that’s not just where her charity giving ends…no siree. So let’s


Asia Pacific nominations for 2011

What a great start to the nominating year!  HUGE thanks to all The Body Shop staff from the Asia Pacific region for your nominations; we have been in contact with all the great groups you’ve suggested and you will be


20th birthday promo with the UK: we’re in store and we’re online!

Sound the birthday trumpets and bring forth the cake – today sees the launch of our brand new 20th birthday celebration with all UK stores! We’re all wearing our party dresses as we’ve got ALOT to celebrate; this promotion through the


Celebrating our 20 years of caring with The Body Shop UK – 2 more days to go!

The Body Shop Foundation celebrates its 20th birthday this year! And to celebrate, we’ve joined forces with The Body Shop UK, promoting The Foundation in stores and asking our customers to vote on how £20,000 of the Foundations money is


Celebrating our 20 years….Peter Saunders, CEO of NAPAC

From the moment the people at the Body Shop Foundation contacted NAPAC, I knew it was the start of something very special. And it wasn’t just about the prospect of receiving some financial support from them. It was so much more.