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The Body Shop Foundation Impact Report 2010/2011

Please find attached The Body Shop Foundation’s Impact Report for 2010/2011 for your information and pleasure : impact-report-final ‘Information’ because it is jam packed full of facts and stats about the impact and success of the grants awarded over the last financial year.  We really have changed lives and habitats. ‘Pleasure’ because it is thanks in large part to your contribution that we have enjoyed such success over the past year.  There are so many factors to this success; the company donation, direction from the trustees,  staff nominations, administering the programmes, our Zone Panels deciding on grants, selling of products through the

NEW exciting opportunities!

The Body Shop Foundation is the charitable trust of The Body Shop International.   We give money to innovative, global projects working for social and environmental change. Since 1990, we’ve funded over 2,500 projects around the world, donating just over £18.3 million. We


Update: Award Winning Southern Task Educational Trust (STET)!

MASSIVE congratulations to a project supported recently by The Body Shop Foundation – step up award winning Southern Task Educational Trust! STET aims to educate and train young people in vital work and life skills, by arranging work experience placements.   


Blog: Michael Richardson talking his walk prior to Sahara Challenge

Expectations: Well here we are again, another little blog. I thought it might be interesting to try and capture a few thoughts about expectations.  As I write this we have 119 days to go, or 17 weeks, until departure for


Results: 20th birthday promo in US & Canadian Stores

Well, we HAVE been busy this year!  In conjunction with Anita Week and to celebrate its 20th anniversary, The Body Shop Foundation donated $40,000 to split among six U.S. and Canada charities through an in-store and social media voting contest


Monitoring & Evaluation: Womankind Worldwide

Introduction This six month report relates to the generous grant (pledged in November 2009) by The Body Shop Foundation to WOMANKIND Worldwide. This grant of £25,850 is supporting our work from April 2010 to March 2011 with one of our partners


UK news: Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse (CAADA)

One of our UK 20th birthday promotion groups – CAADA have updated us about a documentary due to air on BBC 1 next Monday evening at 10.35pm. Blackpool Advocacy’s (one of their Leading Lights accredited services) Children’s IDVA was filmed during


Guess who is charity of the month for ‘Green Cuisine’ in Worthing?

We’re very lucky to have loyal supporters, friends and donors indeed.  One of our ‘angels’ is local business woman, Clare McIvor, Company Director and Chief Proprietor of the new addition to Worthing’s cafe scene – Green Cuisine. Opened in Summer 2010,


10 questions we ask everyone….introducing Michael Jarvis, Local Community Grants Programme

I work in Accounting and Reporting as Market Support Accountant. The main part of my job is to support my markets(France and Monaco) with submission of statutory returns such as VAT and annual accounts as well as providing ongoing


10 questions we ask everyone…introducing Michael Richardson, Local Community Panel

I am the EMEA Zone based Senior Buyer for Indirect  Purchasing (it’s complicated) I wanted to get involved with The Body Shop Foundation having  seen reports over the years and thought I could help with the decision making this time around And