The ‘Delivering Joy’ initiative involves Christmas trees being placed within all UK Dunelm stores, decorated with tags containing gift requests from local schools, care homes, refuges and charities with which Dunelm has partnered. Customers choose a tag from the tree and drop off the gift requested on their tag at their local Dunelm store, with Dunelm then distributing the gifts within the local community.

Sugro UK head office staff supported their local Dunelm store, based in Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, with a total of 38 gift bag donations.

Many of Sugro’s supply partners also got involved in the campaign and donated various treats including chocolate, sweets and selection boxes.

Additional food donations that Sugro UK received were taken to the Stoke-on-Trent Foodbank Warehouse, based at Blurton Methodist Church.

Emma Senior, managing director at Sugro UK, commented: “This was a fantastic initiative that the whole team could get involved with. I particularly want to mention Kate Durose, our trading executive, who bought this to life for us. She saw this in a local store and recommended that Sugro get involved. Not only did she organise us all, but she also engaged with many of our suppliers, who subsequently joined with us to support the campaign.”