We are often asked about our policy on charity recycling banks in our car parks. Here is a summary of our current approach.

Where allocated space permits, we will provide customers with facilities to recycle textiles – clothing, sheets and bedding (no pillows or quilts) & shoes. The value of the material will be donated to Asda’s charity partners. Asda’s current textile recycling operator partners are The Textile Recycling Association (TRA) and The Salvation Army.

In this way, we raised over £621,285.64 for Salvation Army in 2009. Our customers generated 2,644.6 tonnes of textiles, contributing 10% of the textile volume collected by the SA in 2009.

In Sept 2009 ASDA chose Children in Need as a textile recycling charity partner. The Children in Need logo’d banks collected by the Salvation Army raised £24,869.30, generated from customers disposing of 181.636 tonnes of textiles in the months of Sept through to end of Dec 09.

We aspire to raise over £200,000.00 for Children in Need this year through textile recycling alone.

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Asda colleagues are at liberty to choose the charity (or charities) to which they and their team wish to donate. If there is no preference as to the good cause, the money should be donated to one of Asda’s national charities:

• Children in Need
• Tommy’s
• Tickled Pink
• Caravan

...or to the Asda Foundation (ASDA’s charitable trust), where the trustees will distribute the funds to charities nominated by our store colleagues.

The Asda Foundation is Asda’s charitable trust. It supplements the good causes that our colleagues support locally, as well as a number of bigger ad-hoc projects that make a real difference to local communities. It also manages all funds raised for national charities and monies raised in Asda House.

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