Spain Sweden
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Our Spanish stores collected 8,500 pairs of unwanted
SEK for local causes, including a women’s refuge and
International, which works to eliminate preventable support for refugee children.
and reversible blindness.
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Fifty-eight stores across the country raised 320,000
glasses and donated them to the Lions Club
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Our support office team collected 70,000 SEK to
We also raised €2,300 for Kidney Research UK build new accommodation at Ronald McDonald
and their Spanish equivalent, ALCER. House in Gothenburg, which provides a ‘home away
from home’ for families who have children staying in
Northern Europe
hospital. The team also handed out goodie bags to
all 29 families staying at the house.
The Netherlands
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In stores across the country, we raised a total of Norway
€200,000 for 124 local charities. In addition to this, •
working with its Norwegian counterpart, Norges
policy, every store employee volunteered at their store’s Blindeforbund, and are looking to develop this
chosen local charity for a day. relationship over the coming years.
Our support office team volunteered with national
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We raised €27,500 for local causes, including funding
entertainers to visit children in hospital, forming football
charity De Zonnebloem to help organise an event
teams for children with special needs, and holding
for people with physical disability to attend a local
festive events for elderly people who otherwise would
art museum.
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Following the UK’s partnership with RNIB, we started
and as part of our ‘Giving back to our local communities’
have been alone at Christmas.
€65,000 was also raised for De Zonnebloem. These
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An additional 10 stores signed up to support our Give
Sight project in Tanzania.
funds went towards making 10 public venues across the
region accessible for people with physical disabilities.
Australia and New Zealand
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Denmark
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Louis Nielsen raised more than €40,000, and donated $125,400 for CanTeen, a young people’s cancer charity
those funds to local charities such as Hospitalsklovne that provides counselling and support to those aged
(entertainers that visit local children’s hospitals), Stafet between 12 and 25.
For Livet (raising money for cancer treatment) and
Mødrehjælpen (providing support for low-income families).
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Australia and New Zealand flying over to help train
seven eye health nurses. Nurses were trained in
Store teams raised €10,000 to help enhance the
refraction and eye health assessments, providing them
facilities at five local hospitals and carry out research
with skills they could take back to their own countries,
into children’s eye diseases.
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Three outreach programmes took place at the Pacific
Eye Institute in Fiji, with optometrists from both
Finland
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At the Specsavers Partnership Seminar, we raised
helping their communities to become self-sufficient.
We collaborated with the Helsinki City Run to host
the first-ever Specsavers Helsinki City Walk. Four euros
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We collaborated with renowned New Zealand artist
Dick Frizzell to create a limited-edition glasses
from each entrance fee was donated to the Finnish Heart
frame. The frames sold out within six weeks, raising
Association, raising a total of €5,000 for the charity.
$17,500 for The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ. This
donation will go towards providing sight-saving
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cataract kits to hospitals within the Fred Hollows
Specsavers has so many talented females across a
Pacific outreach areas.
variety of roles, and I am really keen for us to share this
knowledge and experience with the next generation
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Stores across Australia and New Zealand raised more
through our partnership with Modern Muse. than $825,000 for The Fred Hollows Foundation and
Dame Mary Perkins, Specsavers Co-founder for local charities.