The Avenue raises more than £2000 for East Renfrewshire Good Causes
Michelle McCabe, centre manager at The Avenue said: “We pride ourselves in playing an active role in the local community and consider that our retail offering provides a real community benefit.
“We are fully committed to on-going community initiatives such as our partnership with our nominated charity East Renfrewshire Good Causes, bi-annual £250 Community Fund allocation and Developing the Young Workforce project in partnership with Mearns Primary School.”
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Hide Ad‘Enhancing our community partnerships and supporting local causes is a significant role we play as the community shopping centre in East Renfrewshire, and so we are delighted to have raised £2435.45 for East Renfrewshire Good Causes in 2018 – the highest amount we have raised for our nominated charity annually to date.”
Michelle added: “In December 2017, we invested a significant sum in a new charity vortex for the mall. We have enjoyed watching our customers delight in using this feature to contribute their kind donations.
Russell Macmillan, founder of East Renfrewshire Good Causes said: “I would like to thank The Avenue for their continued support of having East Renfrewshire Good Causes as the shopping centre’s nominated charity.
“I also wish to pass on a huge thanks to the generosity of their shoppers who donated in centre throughout 2018 to make this total donation possible.”
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Hide AdThe Avenue’s Community Fund approaches its third year with the next allocation taking place following the February 28 deadline.
Plus the shopping centre’s Developing the Young Workforce project with Mearns Primary is currently in its second year of the initiative this year.
For more information on these activities please visit www.avenueshopping.co.uk