Churchill Square - Monthly community cleaning
Organising a monthly community cleanup event—such as a "Cleanup Saturday" or a monthly neighborhood beautification day—is an effective way to improve the local environment and foster community spirit. Key activities include picking up litter, cleaning public areas, and organizing recycling initiatives.
Olio
In January 2022, Churchill Square proudly became the first UK shopping centre to partner with Olio.
OLIO is known for its work in tackling food waste, linking neighbours and businesses to give away rather than throw away surplus food. Since launch OLIOers worldwide have shared 35 million portions of food, which has had an environmental impact equivalent to taking 101 million car miles off the road, has saved 5.1 billion litres of water and has prevented 29k tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions.
Currently involved within the scheme are Costa, Top Dog, Churros, Millie’s Cookies, Miniso, Boost Juice, Auntie Anne’s and Flying Tiger
Churchill Square are thrilled to announce that as the FIRST UK shopping centre to partner with OLIO, we won the 2023 Community of the Year award for the South and the Community of the Year award National Sceptre awards.
Below are the latest monthly stats of how much surplus food we have redistributed throughout Brighton.
In 2019, we introduced Break the Bag Habit and has now become a staple campaign in our marketing strategy to support national Recycle Week.
Break the Bag Habit aims to remove all the plastic & paper bags in our retailers for one day a year and since its inception we have provided 52,960 ethically produced tote bags.
Goldsmiths previously returned repaired items to customers in plastic bags and for this campaign, specifically produced material pouches as a replacement. They have continued to use only the material pouches and not returned to using the plastic bags since.