Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation
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1973

Iceland Foundation Charity started.

1990

Donated £1 million to help build a new National Institute for Conductive Education for Petö UK, a leading charity helping to improve the lives of children and adults with neurological motor disorders.

1995

Raised £300,000 for Childline which helped counsel 10,000 children and young people in the UK.

1996

Supported The Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke Association.

1997

Supported The Breast Cancer Campaign.

2002

Supported Missing People UK and helped to trace missing individuals through publicity on milk cartons.

2005

Charity partner was Alder Hey Children’s Hospital who we worked with for 4 years and raised over £3 million.

2008

Chosen Charity was Alder Hey Children's hospital - donated a further £1m bringing the total raised for the hospital to £3m.

2010

Donated £17,500 to Save the Family.

2010

Charity of the Year - Help for Heroes. Donated £1.5 million. In addition to our usual charity week fundraising in stores we held a spectacular charity ball to mark Iceland’s 40th anniversary in November 2010.

2011

Sir Malcolm Walker & Richard Walker participated in the Iceland Everest Expedition reaching the North Col of Everest at 23,000ft.

2011

Charity of the year - Alzheimer's Research UK. Donated £1 million.

2012

Charity of the year - Alzheimer's Research UK. Donated £1 million.

2012

Sir Malcolm Walker completed the record-breaking descent of the Shard abseil.

2012

DIY SOS: The Big Build Veteran's Special - Iceland supplied food for the tradesmen who transformed Canada and New Street to provide homes for veterans as part of the BBC One programmes ‘DIY SOS: The Big Build Veterans’ Special’ broadcast in October 2015.

2012

Sir Malcolm Walker participated in the Footsteps of Legends: The Iceland Antarctic Expedition, an unsupported trek to the geographical South Pole.

2013

We gave the Foundation a public face to help recognise the achievements of our colleagues and customers and to make it easier for people to support us. It became IFCF.

2013

Sir Malcolm Walker's Autobiography 'Best Served Cold' was published and the funds raised from sales were donated to Alzheimer's Research UK.

2013

Charity of the year - Alzheimer's Research UK - donated £1.8 million, taking the three-year partnership total to over £3 million.

2014

Charity of the year - The Royal British Legion. We marked the centenary of the First World War by raising £1 million for RBL. Our support was focused principally on RBL’s Battle Back Centre for the rehabilitation of wounded service personnel and its Poppy Calls van service for veterans and their dependants.

2015

Children's Food Trust - donated £250,000. The Children’s Food Trust existed to protect children’s right to eat better and so do better. Our support was focused on teaching children in foster care and residential homes the importance of nutritious food and helping them to develop cooking skills.

2015

NYAS (National Youth Advocacy Service) - donated £250,000. NYAS is a UK Charity offering information, advice, advocacy and legal representation to children, young people and vulnerable adults. Our support was focused on their National Helpline, enabling NYAS to expand the team taking calls and extend its opening hours.

2015

When You Wish Upon a Star - donated £100,000. This is a national charity dedicated to granting wishes for children with life threatening or terminal illness. Iceland funded a Winter Wonderland break for 50 families at Center Parcs before Christmas 2015.

2016

We partnered with UCL, pledging £10 million to establish the world leading UK Dementia Research Institute.

2016

UCL Dementia Research Retail Coalition was formed – led by Sir Malcolm Walker. Iceland and other major high street food retailers donated funds from the sale of 5p carrier bags which raised an additional £10 million to fund the UCL hub of the UK Dementia Research Institute.

2017

Charity of the year - Alzheimer's Society & Alzheimer's Scotland - donated £950k.

2018

Our partnership with Surfers Against Sewage began.

2018

Donated £1m towards the construction of the new Defence & National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) at Stanford Hall in Nottinghamshire, which provides state-of-the-art facilities for the rehabilitation of both injured service personnel and those disabled in civilian life. IFCF contribution funded the Neurological Treatment Garden.

2018

Celebrated our 10th anniversary of working with Prostate Cancer UK and reaching the milestone of £1 million donated. “Reaching £1 million is a huge achievement. We’re extremely grateful to everyone at Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation who has helped to make this partnership such a success." Angela Culhane Chief Executive of Prostate Cancer UK

2018

We sponsored Alzheimer’s Society Memory Walks, where friends and family came together across the country, to show support for people living with dementia.

2018

Charity of the year - Alzheimer's Society & Alzheimer's Scotland - donated £632k making a total of £1.5 million for the two-year partnership.

2018

Iceland Foods was absolutely delighted to have been awarded the prestigious Retail Week Community Retailer of the year award 2018.

2019

Co-founded the first ever Plastic Free Awards with SAS.

2019

Partnership with SEMBLE started and the Backyard Nature campaign was created.

2019

Donated £250k to the UK Sepsis Trust and co founded the ‘Schools against Sepsis’ campaign.

2019

Donated £100k to British Lung Foundation to establish the first IPF Network of Excellence. "Investing in research is critical to beating this disease and, with Sir Malcolm and IFCF’s support, we will be able to harness the wealth of talent among researchers working on IPF to bring forward the day where no-one is left breathless from it." Ian Jarrod Head of Research, BLF

2019

Donated a further £1.4 million to our charity partner Alzheimer's Research UK, bringing the total raised through our ‘Dementia; let’s beat it’ campaign to a record £17 million!

2019

IFCF were awarded Highly Commended in the Third Sector Business Charity Awards - Corporate Foundation Award 2019

2020

IFCF joined London Funders, an alliance of funders from across sectors who signed a joint statement pledging to offer support to civil society groups affected by the coronavirus outbreak.

2020

IFCF gave an urgent donation of £150,000 to Age UK’s Coronavirus Emergency Fund, who are aiming to raise £10 million, so it can be there for older people who desperately need its support during the Coronvirus outbreak.

2020

Iceland and The Food Warehouse began working with the National Emergencies Trust Coronavirus Appeal, a nationwide fund which has been set up to raise money to help communities during Covid-19 outbreak

2020

IFCF donates £150,000 to St John Ambulance for their Covid 19 response work

2020

IFCF supports Alzheimer’s Research UK Virtual Pub Quiz by donating £20,000

2020

IFCF is lead partner for the Action For Children Secret Santa campaign by making each and every one of Iceland’s 28,000 colleagues a Secret Santa, a donation of £280,000

2020

IFCF Supports British Lung Foundation IPF Grant Award

2021

‘Hero’ Frank Rothwell, 70, raises £1 million for Alzheimer’s Research UK after completing his 3,000-mile row across the Atlantic Ocean. On 11th February, Frank finally reached the £1 million milestone, just 5 days after completing his challenge. IFCF are incredibly proud to have supported Frank on this challenge by donating the first £500,000 to Alzheimer’s Research UK.

2021

IFCF has backed ambitious plans by Wildlife Trusts Wales to restore all Welsh peatlands by 2030.

2021

Backyard Nature campaign inspires 750,000 hours for children in nature. Children from all over the UK have spent over 750,000 hours protecting nature in their communities, including taking part in Backyard Nature’s seasonal ‘missions’ to ‘Save the Bees’ and ‘Love Bugs’. With help from Iceland’s 30,000 store colleagues, Backyard Nature has seen 15 million wildflower seeds planted by children, 337,000 bug hotels given away to help protect the country’s insects, and a winter ‘Feed the Birds’ mission supported by environmental charities.

2021

IFCF celebrates raising £5m for Alzheimer’s Research UK. IFCF marked this huge milestone by supporting the charity’s annual Research Conference which is took place virtually from Tuesday 23rd March to Friday 26th March.

2021

IFCF is the lead partner of the SAS Million Mile Clean.

2021

IFCF has co-developed and co-funded the 'Sepsis Savvy' campaign with the UK Sepsis Trust.

2022

Our lead charity partner this year is Action for Children!

2022

IFCF donates £150k to British Red Cross in support of Ukraine

2022

IFCF pledges to continue as lead partner of Surfers Against Sewage 'Million Mile Clean' for 2022 and 2023

2022

Partnered with the 'Big Jubilee Lunch' and hosted a number of lunches in aid of Action For Children

2022

Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation proudly donates £10,000 to Cure Parkinson’s in relation to a mammoth Alpine Challenge

IFCF Supports Alzheimer’s Research UK Think Brain Health Campaign

2022

IFCF takes part in Action For Children's Boycott Your Bed event at Zip World. This event takes IFCF's contribution to Action For Children to £1 million.

2023

IFCF celebrates it's 50th Anniversary

2023

IFCF donates £50K to to support the British Red Cross Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal

2023

Our lead charity partner this year is The National Brain Appeal! Funds raised will help create the first world Rare Dementia Support Centre.

2023

IFCF Chairman, Richard Walker to climb Everest to raise over £1 million for world's first Rare Dementia Support Centre

2023

On Father’s Day, Iceland Foods partnered with Prostate Cancer UK and Astonish to raise critical funds and awareness for the thousands of men affected by prostate cancer.

On World Sepsis Day, we teamed up with UK Sepsis Trust and BAFTA Award winning actor Jason Watkins, to raise awareness of sepsis symptoms.

2024

Our lead charity partner this year is Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). We have partnered with CALM to unite against suicide and help create 5 million life saving conversations.

£34m
2024

With many exciting new things ahead!

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