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Our corporate charity partnership with Trussell began in June 2019. Trussell's vital work supports over 1,400 food banks across the UK, while campaigning to ensure everyone can afford their own food.
Since we started our partnership food collection points have been introduced across our shopping centre portfolio, and our assets have been made available for storage, awareness campaigns and volunteer recruitment.
Find out more about the work of Trussell
There are 700,000* autistic people in the UK, and trips to the shops can be stressful for autistic adults and children. Frustration or anxiety can be caused by not knowing why we need to shop or what will happen when shopping, and a person can be overwhelmed by sensory experiences in retail destinations. NewRiver is proud to support a Quiet Hour initiative, ensuring centres and their occupiers adapt their environments to make autistic shoppers more comfortable and to reduce sensory overload, including:
Many of the shopping centres in the NewRiver portfolio host regular weekly or monthly Quiet Hours.
*figures from www.beyondautism.org.uk
Most people will feel lonely at some points in their lives, but for a growing number of people, particularly those in later life, loneliness can have a significant impact on their wellbeing. According to Age UK, nearly a million older people in the UK are often lonely.
In association with local charities and groups, a number of our centres – including Priory Meadow Shopping Centre in Hastings and The Marlowes in Hemel – host regular events for older people in the community promoting friendship and providing activities.
Priory Meadow Shopping Centre in Hastings hosts a quarterly ‘Cuppa Club’, a free to drop-in meet-up, with events including afternoon tea, live music, dancing, craft activities and more. The centre team work with their charity partner Little Gate Supported Employment to staff these popular events.
We work with a range of national arts-based charities, in co-operation with The Arts Council, Charities Commission and the Local Government Association, to use empty spaces across our portfolio as a platform for local artists. This includes use of units for exhibition and gallery space, workshops, temporary studios, performance spaces and even just for storage of artworks. As part of the agreement, the charities take liability for the business rates on each unit and NewRiver covers any shortfall not covered by charity business rates relief. In addition, NewRiver makes a monthly charitable donation to the charities.