Project Description
Building stronger, healthier communities
From Aberdeen to Cornwall, projects in 109 communities are doing good with #Greggs4Good!
The #Greggs4Good network brings together awardees from the various community programmes of the Greggs Foundation, which aim to make a difference at the heart of Greggs’ local communities. The awardees share updates and stories of their project’s progress to demonstrate impact.
To view the Greggs Foundation website, visit:
www.greggsfoundation.org.uk
Campaign updates
Here you’ll find the latest news regarding the progress of the campaign.
#Greggs4Good photo competition
What would you do if you had an extra £250 to spend on your project? We are very excited to announce that the second #Greggs4Good photo competition of 2019 is now open! It has [...]
#Greggs4Good Photo Competition Winner Announced!
We have been so impressed by the standard of blogs posted and have loved hearing about how each of your projects have developed. The team at the Greggs Foundation have found it incredibly inspiring [...]
#Greggs4Good photo competition
We are very excited to announce that the first #Greggs4Good photo competition is now open! It has been so inspiring reading the updates from all Greggs Foundation grant awardees or scheme beneficiaries. We love [...]
Blogs from supported projects
LLANSILIN OVER 60 CLUB: The...
Llansilin Over 60 Club provides a meeting point for the elderly of the community. The majority of club members are single and live alone in an isolated rural community. Whilst [...]
ADAPT Youth Inclusive Dance Company
Wow! what a busy year ADAPT Youth Inclusive Dance Company have had so far. ADAPT Youth Inclusive Dance Company have received numerous funding over the course of the year from [...]
Making Group Memories
Memories are the sole of conversation at our Bunting and Banter groups and craft sessions. BUT not everything is about crafting, thats just one of the visual end products. Our [...]
Llansilin Over 60 Club –...
The project makes provision for 4 coach trips (Spring/Summer/Autumn). The first coach trip on Tuesday 14th May 2019, with 35 people participating, was via Oswestry, Shropshire and Welshpool, Powys and [...]
Combats Loneliness in the elderly...
Llansilin Over 60 Club provides a meeting point for the elderly of the community. The majority of club members are single and live alone in an isolated rural community. Whilst [...]
Blackwood Stroke Support Group trip...
Blackwood Stroke Support Group braved the wild weather reports and took to the water on board the Seren Party Boat for a trip around Cardiff Bay and up the Taff [...]
Dementia Woodland Wellbeing Sessions from...
Woodland Wellbeing provides a space for people with dementia and their carers to spend quality time together in the relaxing environment of a local woodland. Our groups meets every other [...]
Up and Running!
The 'It's Better Together' Project funded by #Greggs4Good is now in full swing. Having purchased new Audio Visual equipment we are having a weekly coffee morning which has grown from [...]
The children take over The...
The children take over the Berry Maze It's been a year and a half since the Berry Maze was planted, in November 2017. It was the result of a one [...]
We love the new equipment!
Our funding from the Greggs Foundation has been spent on new physical activity equipment across three of our Hampshire clubs. Our weekly clubs see older people come together and reminisce [...]
Butterflies Transforming lives
Our grant to develop friendship group for the bereaved is making a real difference to the lives of people of all ages who have lost loved ones either recently or [...]
Memory Boxes with Rotherham Social...
As usual we have had the most wonderful day creating Memory Boxes specifically for a fabulous group of ladies and gents from Rotherham Social Days. Forteas which is the name [...]
Let’s Get Active
We have had the most amazing time over the last few months getting active with the Greggs Foundation Grant we received. Our Young People went swimming during Half Term and [...]
Families enjoy a fun filled...
Our amazing families spent a great evening at Techniquest in Cardiff, as the event was closed to the public it provided a safe and sensory aware space for all the [...]
Thank you message
Always so lovely to receive thank you messages from patients and know that the care packs made a little difference in brightening someone's difficult day 🙂 #Greggs4Good
2000th care pack milestone!!!
Today Touch of Sparkle donated its 2000th care pack! 💜 To mark this special milestone, 50 care packs for boys and girls were donated to the Teenage Emergency Department at the hospital, [...]
Blackwood Stroke Support Group learn...
Our first visit to Brecon Museum in April was so interesting that we decided to revisit it again in June. However this time we all brought packed lunches to eat [...]
Sporting Memories – Hampshire projects...
Through funding received from the Greggs Foundation three of our Sporting Memories clubs (Eastleigh, Southampton and Winchester) have been playing with new equipment as part of their weekly club. After [...]
Nanas that knit
Since receiving money from Greggs, AList have been able to purchase wool to continue with our knitting for different charitable causes. These are school v-neck jumpers for students in India, [...]
Our residential trip
Thanks to the Greggs 4 Good grant that we received, we managed to subsidise a residential trip for 10 of our deaf children and their families. They had an amazing [...]
What a fabulous day!
Well, we've had a fantastic day down in Eastbourne! We weren't too lucky with the traffic, but once we got there the weather was glorious, hot and sunny, but a [...]
Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust School...
The second day put the young anglers to the test by getting a hands on experience of fishing at Carman Fishery. They all set up the rods and despite the [...]
Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust School...
Last week was the premiere of our summer angling school, providing an opportunity to young people of West Dunbartonshire to explore the local aquatic environment and learn how to fish. [...]
Horseriding and train journies delight...
Ready Steady Go supports young children with autism in Monmouthshire, South Wales. The children who attend the weekly activity and school holiday club are now enjoying regular horse riding small [...]
Greggs-funded initiative scoops award in...
An initiative aimed at providing IT training for older people has led to an Oxford student winning a Vice Chancellor's Social Impact Award. In 2016 a group of students started [...]
Not long now…
We're off to Eastbourne in the morning! The weather forecast looks good, we've all packed our suncream and hats, and we're looking forward to fish and chips for lunch tomorrow. [...]
Connected Conservation
🐟🦟🌿 Connected Conservation Project 🐟🦟🌿 During June, we had the pleasure of working with Nat 4 Biology students from the Vale of Leven Academy to connect them to their [...]
Wild Trails
The River Leven has a number of paths and trails running along its length. In fact near the Strathleven estate, there is a lovely network of trails that locals and [...]
Another lovely thank you message
Another lovely thank you message received from a patient who received one of our cancer care packs at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge 🙂 #Greggs4Good
Thank you message
What a lovely thank you message 💜💜💜 #Greggs4Good
Preparing for our 2000th care...
Our next donation will be our 2000th care pack! 💜 To mark this special milestone, we have been asked to provide care packs for teenagers at the hospital’s Emergency Department who are [...]
Thank you messages
Amazing to receive such lovely thank you messages already following our donation of care packs yesterday 💜💜💜 #Greggs4Good
60 cancer care packs donated
Today 60 care packs (for both female and male patients) were donated to the oncology department at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. Thank you to everyone who donated and big thanks [...]
Generous supporters!
What generous supporters we have! This week we received 4 parcels packed with goodies for our cancer care packs, including parcels all the way from Poland! They include everything from [...]
First purchase from #Greggs4Good
Today we received our first batch of goodies purchased with our amazing donation from the Greggs Foundation! 384 pairs of bedsocks, 108 playing cards, 120 notebooks, 96 chapsticks, 72 puzzle [...]
Plant A Welly
Our St Ann’s Partnership Youth Club children designed & painted ceramic wellington boots before our plant a pot day for the local communities, some fab & creative designs 😄🎨
May Half Term Funday
Our St Ann’s Partnership Youth Club children had a fab Funday in the half term holidays!! 😀
Funshack Youth Club Trip
The Willows Centre where we hold our Youth Club Sessions is used a a polling station so rather than cancel our session with the help of Greggs we took them [...]
We’re all going on a...
My goodness but we're getting excited! Yes, June is turning out to be miserable and rainy, but we're confident that by the time July rolls around and we're on that [...]
Blackwood Stroke Supports Group takes...
Blackwood Stroke Support Group became the first Stroke Group to visit the Rhondda Heritage Centre on 22nd May. After prior discussions with the Heritage Centre and an onsite risk assessment [...]
Edward Kemp Community Garden, Ashville...
Thanks to the grant from the Gregg Foundation the raised beds are now completed and we have started filling them ready for our disabled plot holders. Andrew Sim is coming [...]
Half-Term Excitement
It's less than a week to go until the start of May Half-Term and we have lots of incredible things happening here at the project! Greggs Charity Foundation have funded [...]
Welcoming the newest member of...
We are really chuffed to introduce Jessie Kidd, the new member of Cae Tan’s team. She is a dynamic & enthused representative of Cae Tan. Jessie has a BSc in [...]
Thank you Greggs Foundation!
CHAT - Chat2Us would like to say a big thank you to Greggs Foundation for their wonderful support for the Gosport community! CHAT help by engaging the local community in [...]
Update from the Community Gardens...
The gardens seem to have survived the recent storms relatively unscathed which has meant we've been able to crack on with sowing and making the new raised beds as the [...]
Spring Conservation Weekend at Hazel...
I can’t believe that spring is here. Bluebells, primroses, hellebores and wood anemones are all poking their heads through the soft, wet leaves that cover the ground at Hazel Hill [...]
Splashing into 2019
Well, following on from our amazing award from the Greener With Greggs fund we've been able to equip ourselves with some fantastic equipment to help us keep our river free [...]
Greenhouse now built!
The Premises Manager has done a fabulous job erecting the flat pack greenhouse ready for our children at Barmston Village Primary School to begin sowing seeds!! Thank you Greggs. [...]
Dormouse Day at Hazel Hill...
Hazel Hill Wood, 7 miles east of Salisbury, is about to embark on a survey to look for the adorable and elusive hazel dormouse – and they need your help! [...]
They’re in
On a cold January morning, members of Bilbrook community gathered in the Jubilee Wood to plant an orchard. Using money donated by the Greggs Foundation, 13 fruit trees were purchased [...]
January News from Grow Chichester
Update from the Community Gardens January 2019 Building the new raised beds Update [...]
Happy Christmas from the Community...
Happy Christmas from the Community Gardens December 2018 Brussels sprouts ready to be picked. Update With Christmas nearly upon us [...]
News from the Community Gardens...
News from the Community Gardens November 2018 Pumpkin harvested from the no-dig bed. Update With winter feeling like it might arrive any day we have been [...]
First outing
Our first event as 'Keep Ystradfellte Tidy Community Group' was on the 28th April 2018. We were greatly assisted by Rachel Palmer, local rep for 'Keep Wales Tidy', who supplied [...]
Greggs signage added
We've now "planted" the new Welcome to Woodcroft Wildspace sign
Thank-you to Greggs!
Thanks to Greggs, we are looking forward to replacing the gardening shed at St.Andrew's CofE Primary School! The doors don't currently shut properly and it is soon becoming part of [...]
Rusty wheelbarrows
Our gardening teacher is also looking forward to replacing the rusty wheelbarrows?!
Thank you to Greggs Foundation!
The Clean up Tarbolton woods campaign are delighted to announce we have been awarded a whopping '1850 from Greggs Foundation for our project 'Wild for Life at Brownies Parlour' Thank [...]
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New trees planted. Thank you...
On a cool spring day 2 trees a blue atlas cedar and a japanese cedar were planted.
Greener with Greggs – Science...
There was a great response to the house at the recent 'Science under the stars' event in Heswall. The event attracts a mix of families and educators and has a [...]
Greener with Greggs – Raising...
Much model making and another public outing under our belts and it's time for a belated update. First a piece of board was cut to size... Then strengthened... A box [...]
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GREGGS grant for OASIS –...
We are delighted to tell the world that we have been given a grant from GREGGS to help our Flowers for Life project. We will be able to do some [...]
Greener with Greggs – a...
Our second outing with the energy house was to Blackberry Fair in Whitchurch. Building on the first 'live' test in West Kirby the model has been adapted and further developed. [...]
Greener with Greggs – Earth...
Our first 'live ' outing at a public event went well. We arrived in good time but in damp conditions. Heavy rain before the event and further showers during [...]
Greener with Greggs – Preparing...
With an event coming up on 9th September it is all hands to the pump to get the exhibit ready for its first live test. It won't be the finished [...]
Greener with Greggs – testing...
With some key elements in place, testing has now begun. We need to start looking at the model through the thermographic camera in order to find out how well different [...]
Greener with Greggs – Wrapping...
Time for another update on the model making. Alan has been working hard wrapping one of the two semis with insulation. Previous the side wall and top floor ceiling had [...]
Greener with Greggs – A...
We wanted to enter the Greener with Greggs photo competition. Unfortunately because we are not quite there yet with our project, we can't post the perfect picture that we wanted [...]
Greener with Greggs – A...
In order to give people a new perspective on energy efficiency we are creating an exhibit they can see in different ways: 'As is' - a model showing one house [...]
Greener with Greggs – The...
Time to share some photos of the house conversion in progress. We started with a single dolls house but need to convert it in to two semis. The idea is [...]
Greener with Greggs – our...
Delighted to begin our #GreenerwithGreggs journey! Earlier in the year we inherited a dolls house with the hope that one day we could use it to create an interactive model [...]
Latest social updates from #Greggs4Good
