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Case study: Mars UK

Mars UK works closely with the local authorities and voluntary organisations in the towns where it has production sites, to assess the needs of those local communities and decide on where the company can best add value.

As a result, the company supports a large variety of initiatives, focused around four key themes that reflect and complement the areas of its business – education, pet welfare, health and wellbeing, and the environment.

Mars' employees get involved in a number of ways, including: giving time for education initiatives such as the Right to Read, Young Enterprise and providing presentations on mentoring and job seeking; re-vamping a Skills Centre kitchen and communal area for Nacro, a crime reduction charity; training young people in interview techniques, making presentations and other business skills; sponsoring Earth Balloons to promote sustainability in schools and in the wider community; and delivering Good Food Hygiene programmes to schools during National Food Safety Week. The Skills Centre kitchen initiative and the Good Food Hygiene programmes ran in 2006. The others continue to run.

Bronze Award Winner (LARGE) of 2006 Community Partnership Awards: Local Community Category

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More Information

FDF has published a booklet called Working in the Community: the food industry in action (pdf, 1.2Mb) . This publication features a range of company case studies and Community Partnership Award winners demonstrating how our members are forging links with their local communities and consumers.