Charity founded by former PM Brown and Amazon hits three-year milestone

A foundation founded by erstwhile premier curate Gordon Brown and transportation superpower Amazon is celebrating its three-year anniversary.

The Big House Multibank was launched successful aboriginal 2022 with the purpose of distributing excess items from the company’s Fife warehouse to families successful the area.

The foundation volition observe with an lawsuit astatine Fife College, hosted by its founding spouse the Cottage Family Centre – of which Mr Brown is simply a patron.

Just nether 3 years on, it has expanded its web to see Edinburgh, Dundee and Perth, and has distributed 2.5 cardinal goods to much than 120,000 families.

The multibank exemplary benefits america each due to the fact that we person and past donate hundreds of thousands of surplus products that mightiness different spell to waste

Gordon Brown

The Cottage Family Centre has created a near-1,000 beardown web of partners to assistance administer the items, which see essentials specified arsenic clothing, toiletries and babe products.

Since its creation, a further 5 multibanks person been opened crossed the UK, including successful Manchester, Swansea and London, with a increasing level of donations from different businesses.

“We’re arrogant to people 3 years of the Big House Multibank and the interaction this captious enactment has had successful the lives of thousands of Scottish families,” the erstwhile premier curate said.

“I privation to convey the Cottage Family Centre and our partners who person made this imaginable with their generous donations.

“Their enactment is indispensable to assistance this cognition proceed and I telephone connected much businesses, large and small, to articulation our conjugation and assistance america successful this important initiative.

“The multibank exemplary benefits america each due to the fact that we person and past donate hundreds of thousands of surplus products that mightiness different spell to waste.

“We are tackling contamination and alleviating the effects of poorness by creating a new, cost-effective solution that sustains some the satellite and puerility opportunity.

“Multibanks are not conscionable astir gathering needs but offering anticipation that families struggling to get by tin person a amended life, and successful peculiar arsenic we hole for Christmas we privation multibanks to enactment a grin connected each child’s face.”

John Boumphrey, UK state manager for Amazon, said: “This milestone demonstrates the bonzer interaction we tin execute erstwhile businesses, charities and visionary leaders similar Gordon Brown unite for a communal cause.

“In conscionable 3 years, the Big House Multibank has redistributed much than 2.5 cardinal goods supporting implicit 120,000 unsocial families crossed Scotland – an accomplishment that my squad and I are incredibly arrogant of arsenic we enactment unneurotic to physique a brighter and much sustainable future.

“Our concern with the Cottage Family Centre successful processing this groundbreaking inaugural has been incredibly rewarding, arsenic we witnesser its transformative effect connected countless families’ lives.”

Pauline Buchan, strategical manager astatine the Cottage Family Centre, said: “The quality this inaugural has made to the lives of children, families and the practitioners who enactment them is simply incredible, and I americium perfectly delighted that families not lone present successful Scotland but those successful communities crossed the UK volition besides person entree to this much-needed enactment going forward.”