Editing Marks & Spencer (section)

====Charity work====
M&S has sold a wide range of charitable women's clothes for [[Breakthrough Breast Cancer]]<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/favourites-of-vogue/2010/09/marks-and-spencer-breakthrough-breast-cancer|journal=Vogue| title=M and S For Breakthrough| date=3 September 2010| first=Jessica| last=Bumpus| access-date=5 August 2015}}</ref> for many years and the [[Ashbourne, Derbyshire|Ashbourne]] store collected a total of £2,000 for a local hospital's new ECG machine in 2010.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.ashbournenewstelegraph.co.uk/News/Not-just-any-ECG-machine.htm |title=Not just any ECG machine|publisher=Ashbourne News & Telegraph|date=20 October 2010|access-date=25 March 2012}}</ref> In 2011 M&S launched a [[Textile recycling|clothes recycling]] initiative in partnership with [[Oxfam]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfam.org.uk/fashion-blog/2013/01/marks-and-spencer-shwop-shop-with-oxfam|title=Marks & Spencer and Oxfam Shwop Shop|publisher=Oxfam.org|date=5 January 2013|first=Helen|last=Archard|access-date=5 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150625044045/http://www.oxfam.org.uk/fashion-blog/2013/01/marks-and-spencer-shwop-shop-with-oxfam|archive-date=25 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2015, M&S partnered with community investment platform [[Neighbourly (community investment platform)|Neighbourly]] to help them distribute unsold surplus food and non-food items to small charities and community groups in the UK and Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|date=9 October 2015|title=M&S moves to hand out thousands of tonnes of food waste|url=http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/09/m-and-s-hand-out-thousands-tonnes-food-waste-neighbourly|access-date=28 January 2021|website=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=M&S pioneers Neighbourly non-food redistribution scheme|url=https://www.edie.net/news/5/M-S-pioneers-Neighbourly-non-food-redistribution-scheme/|access-date=28 January 2021|website=edie.net}}</ref> In March 2020, M&S made a £100,000 donation to the Neighbourly Community Fund and a £100,000 donation to the National Emergencies Trust Coronavirus Appeal to help communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{cite web|title=John Lewis, M&S Co-op donate to charities to assist during coronavirus crisis – Retail Gazette|url=https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2020/03/john-lewis-ms-co-op-donate-to-charities-to-assist-during-coronavirus-crisis/|access-date=28 January 2021|website=www.retailgazette.co.uk|date=21 March 2020 }}</ref>