Giving Back

Strathberry is a family-run business and fundamentally believes in the values of kindness to others and supporting those in need as best we can.

With this in mind, we have updated our charity beneficiaries to include:

Polish Humanitarian Action

The Red Cross: Ukraine Appeal

UNHCR: Ukraine Appeal

Save the Children: Ukraine Appeal

Women for Women International

Women for Women International supports women who live in some of the world’s most dangerous places. Since 1993, the charity has helped over half a million marginalised women survivors of war. Women enrol on the charity’s year-long training programme, where they learn how to earn and save money, improve their family’s health and make their voices heard at home and in their community. They pass on their knowledge to their neighbours and children, creating a ripple effect of change.

Strathberry are proud to be corporate sponsors to this amazing charity. In addition to championing their fundraising campaigns throughout the year, we have taken part in Giving Tuesday two years in a row, committing 10% of our sales for the day towards their efforts to help women survivors of war rebuild their lives. We are also proud to sponsor our two sisters, Blessing and Asabeh from Nigeria, and support their enrolment in Women for Women International’s year-long programme, where they’ll learn how to earn and save money, improve their health and wellbeing and make their voices heard.

UK Charity Registration Number: 1115109

Smart Works

Smart Works provides high-quality interview clothes and interview training to women in need, allowing women to be their best self at a crucial moment in their lives.

The charity gives women confidence, self-belief and practical tools to succeed in their job interview and return to work. It operates across eight centres in the UK.

Strathberry recognises the importance of equal opportunities for women and proudly supports this empowering charity through its Edinburgh centre. The vital funds raised by Strathberry help Smart Works support women to transform their lives. After a visit to Smart Works, 64% of women go on to get the job.

UK Charity Registration Number: 1080609

CHAS

For over 25 years, CHAS has offered full family support for babies, children and young people with life-shortening conditions. Through their hospices, homecare services and hospital presence, CHAS provides palliative care, family respite and support throughout Scotland.

Strathberry has proudly supported CHAS for a number of years by donating bags for their auctions, helping raise funds for their hospices across Scotland.

Scottish Charity Registration Number: SC 019724

Covid 19 Relief

Now more than ever, we need to look out for each other. In the first weeks of lockdown, we immediately committed to several charitable contributions, mainly focussed around our local communities in Edinburgh. We started with weekly donations made to Age Scotland, helping to tackle loneliness among older people during these times of self-isolation.

We donated to Social Bite, a charitable café initiative with a branch just around the corner from Strathberry HQ, who swiftly worked to repurpose their entire business to supply 3000 food, hygiene and basic medicine supply packs every single day to people in need all over Scotland.  We donated supplies in support of the Grassmarket Community Project,  Steps to Hope and Rock Trust - all charities working with the homeless within Edinburgh.

In addition to the above, we ran a sale committing 10% of all our sales to causes related to COVID-19. With your generous help, we were able to send significant donations to all of the eight charities listed below. We are proud to support each and every one of them: all doing vital work at this difficult time. We’d encourage you to look into their works too and thank you so very much for helping us to make this contribution.

In addition to the above charity partnerships, Strathberry has supported a number of local charities throughout the years, including: