Marks & Spencer has announced a series of initiatives to support the NHS’s response to coronavirus in the UK, including clothing donations and a free food delivery service.
M&S said it would donate thousands of specially-branded “We are the NHS” t-shirts as part of the uniform pack for NHS Nightingale frontline team in London, as well as deliver clothing care packs to provide comfort for discharged patients at the temporary hospital.
The retailer also said it would donate over 4,000 pyjamas to be used as scrubs to NHS Derbyshire, which is located close to M&S’s Castle Donington distribution centre.
Meanwhile, from next week M&S Food will start a new, twice-weekly free food delivery service for the NHS workers at the retailer’s hospital partners at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The high street stalwart added it was donating to the NHS Charities Together Covid-19 Urgent Appeal and has enabled customers to select the appeal as their Sparks charity.
“We’re doing our bit to help the NHS by focusing on what we do best – providing great food and clothes – in the hope we can make it just a little easier for our NHS heroes to do what they do best, as well as the patients in their care,” M&S Group Chief Executive Steve Rowe said.
