Community Dollars History

Community Dollars is a program which the Directors of Foodland Promotions discovered on a Study Tour in 1992. Foodland Promotions put the program into practice in the Foodland stores in July 1992.

Each Foodland store installed a box at the front of their store giving customers the opportunity to support local charities by putting their receipt into the box of their choice. Every three months $500.00 was distributed to the charities. Foodland Promotions withdrew the program in 1997 but we still continue to support the program.

Our major recipients for each store are: Queen Elizabeth Hospital Research, Breast Cancer Research, Royal District Nursing Society, Bedford Industries and the McGuinness McDermott foundation which was supported for nine years as a major recipient, recently being replaced with Bedford Industires.

Each store also has four other local charities for customer support which are changed periodically. They are local schools, lifesaving clubs, football clubs, kindergartens, Neighborhood Watch, Community Hospitals, scout groups, Animal Welfare, Guides Dogs, St John Ambulance, CFS and many others. If a charity is not receiving support from customers, they are replaced with another.

Application forms for charities to register for the Community Dollars program are available from our participating stores, head office or you may download one from this site.

Due to the cost of administration, vouchers are now distributed every six months. We have donated over one million dollars up to date.