The Carrier Bag Tax in Scotland.

The Scottish Government imposes a Carrier Bag Tax in Scotland.  Our accruals for this levy reached £1500.00 earlier this year.

Our MD, Robin Mackinlay, has long being a supporter of using this fund to support charities.  You might remember we went out to our colleagues on a straw poll to ask for donation suggestions.  The note below outlines the results.

To those of you who made suggestions, thank you for your time and effort.  Every suggestion was worthwhile, and it was difficult to arrive at the decision you see outlined below.

After careful consideration, we decided to make donations to the following charities:

£800.00 to the Trussell Trust. This organisation has a network of foodbanks across Scotland which match our location network reasonably well.  Foodbanks received the highest number of suggestions from our colleagues.

£350.00 to Alzheimer Scotland.  Alzheimer’s, Dementia and Parkinson’s were the next highest category of suggestions.

£350.00 to Marine Conservation Society.  We felt this charity, which specialises in care for our oceans and highlighting the damage plastic waste does to them, was particularly appropriate.

We thank you again for your suggestions and wish to reiterate this was a difficult decision to take.  However, the donations were made based on the highest numbers of incoming responses and the appropriateness of each charity.

We also filtered into our decision that it’s best to make relatively substantial donations to a limited number of charities rather than to spread the available funds too thinly.

All three charities sent in letters of thanks.