Musgrave Retail Partners NI has scooped a bronze award at the prestigious Food and Drink Federation (FDF) Community Partnership Awards. The Awards, which took place at the Churchill Museum and War Rooms in London, reward organisations across the food chain making a positive difference to the communities in which they operate.

Musgrave was presented with the prize in the Local Community category of the Awards for the initiative it runs with local charity Action Cancer, through its 42 independent SuperValu retailers in Northern Ireland. Action Cancer provides mobile cancer services and by the end of 2006, SuperValu had helped the charity pay for and launch a brand new hi-tech unit, called the Big Bus.

The 18 metre-long unit is the first of its kind in Europe, incorporating digital breast screening, male MOT health checks, health promotion/cancer prevention and support services for cancer patients. Since SuperValu started supporting Action Cancer’s mobile services almost 20,000 people have been helped, including almost 9,000 people on the new Big Bus unit.

Other winners in the Local Community Impact category of the awards included Nestle, Wrigley, Kettle Foods and NI company Dunbia.

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