Asda Foundation is an independent charity with more than 30 years’ history of helping people in local
communities.
About us
Our mission is to transform communities and improve lives throughout the UK, complementing Asda
Stores’ ambition to be at the heart of local communities, through building long-term community
resilience and being there in times of crisis. The Foundation supports grassroots organisations
in making a real impact, and supports local communities in emergencies, reacting quickly to help
people in the immediate hours following a disaster.
Sharing stories
The last 18 months have been an incredibly challenging for everyone across the UK. Crisis
support became front and centre in Asda Foundation’s response to the pandemic. To learn more
about what we have funded and how we helped local communities.
As lockdown eases and communities are slowly able to come back together, we are introducing
new grant streams and adapting our ways of working so we can continue to invest in
supporting our local communities at a grassroots level.
Asda ESG Report
Asda have published their 2021 ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) report based on the
Creating Change for Better programme which Asda Foundation are part of. It’s important to Asda
and Asda Foundation that we continue to support local communities.
Asda Foundation Trustees
Helen Selby
Jane Earnshaw
Jodie Tate
Jason Martin
Rehman Minshall
Sue Hennessey
Patricia Mitchell
Simon Lewis
Lewis Oldroyd
Sarah Ashby
Mark Benton
