Gavin Kirk, Site Operations Director (TBC) presented the award to the Leeds Children's Holiday Camp Association who provides free holidays for the disadvantaged Children of Leeds, and maintains a holiday centre at Silverdale, near Morecambe. The children and families that the charity aim to help... read more

Mars Chocolate UK were winners at the 2008 Food and Drink Federation Community Partnership Awards. Mars were silver winners in the education category for our support for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead’s Learning for Sustainability Programme, which promotes and encourages schools... read more

Presented by Mike Carabok, Melton Plant Director, Melton In Bloom attended the Mars Petcare, Waltham site for their presentation. Previous funding went towards the group's regeneration project of Gretton Court Sheltered Housing by installing a water feature, clearing overgrown gardens and... read more

Green fingered students at Cippenham Infant School will now be able to grow their own fruit and vegetables thanks to a team from Mars. The school made an application to the Mars in the Community programme for money to buy gardening tools, a greenhouse and for volunteers to put it up. The school... read more

Sawtry Colts were invited to the Peterborough site to receive their Mars in the Community award and were also treated to a factory tour. The award was presented by Plant Director, Martina Bunte. Sawtry Colts has been established for 25 years and provides football training to all boys and girls in... read more

Mars presented a cheque to The Sick Children's Trust at their site in Birstall, Leeds. The charity's vision is that no child should be separated from their family whilst being treated in hospital for a serious illness or disorder. They offer Home from Home accommodation to families with seriously... read more

Grantham College's award of £500 which will go towards maintaining Grantham College’s Environmental drive and sponsor the ECO Student award at their Annual Awards ceremony in November. Our previous funding supported an environmental week which aimed to raise both staff and student awareness of... read more

A Mars team of employees swapped chocolate for spades when they helped finish the Dropmore Infant School vegetable garden and built a new pond. The team, representing GALAXY manufacturing, were keen to take part in a community challenge as part of the Mars in the Community programme. Following... read more

The Slough Working Council redecorated Colnbrook Primary School hall and canteen. David Tindal, operations manager, said “the size of the school hall looked daunting at first but the team worked well together to complete it without any problem. It was a great activity for the team to get to know... read more

All recipients of a MARS grant (large or small) have the opportunity to receive ADDITIONAL FUNDING OF £500. On receipt of your completed feedback form, the Mars Community team will enter your organisation into our annual Award Scheme. A judging panel will look at all feedback forms received to... read more

Associates from Melton, Waltham and WCPN took park in the big tidy up on Thursday 20th February. Although cold the event was a huge success and key areas of the park were transformed. The associates participated in digging, pruning, litter picking, prepping and painting woodwork. 25 sacks of... read more

As part of their engagement plan within the Media and Marketing Buying team they had been working on how to work more effectively together whilst trying to follow the FISH philosophy of having fun together as a team to achieve something. The team are not based at the same site so it is difficult to... read more

As part of the Mars in the Community Programme, the Impulse Accounts team conducted a team build activity doing a garden makeover at Wexham Park hospital. This involved the team working together to create a low maintenance garden that the patients of wards 4 and 5 could enjoy. Ann, who... read more