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Hartlepool Carers has been named as Sainsbury’s charity for this year.

Supermarket supports carers

 

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Hartlepool Carers has been named as Sainsbury’s charity for this year. Pictured front right is store charity co-ordinator Katie Lisle with customer service assistant Sammi Smith, left, with staff from the carers’ centre in Lowthian Road, Hartlepool

 

Published on Friday 8 July 2011 14:00

KIND-HEARTED supermarket customers have chosen a town charity to benefit from their support.

Hartlepool Carers will be the official charity of Sainsbury’s, in Middle Warren, for the next 12 months.

Staff at the store, in Mulberry Rise, asked their customers and colleagues to nominate their chosen charity for the supermarket to support.

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Charities are suffering because they have failed to embrace digital campaigning as enthusiastically as they should, argues Martha Lane Fox, the UK’s digital champion.

Some organisations, she says, are reluctant to invest in this area. “It depends on the charity, but many haven’t yet moved as quickly as the commercial sector,” she says.