Wakefield team celebrates Pride Month
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More than 12 employees from Amazon’s fulfilment centre in Wakefield have packed 2,000 kits filled with essential items that are being donated to LGBT Foundation as part of a series of Pride Month activities aimed supporting LGBTQ+ individuals and families in need across the UK.
LGBT Foundation is a national charity based in Manchester that delivers a wide range of services to support the health and wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.
Its services include counselling, health services and advocacy support, providing a lifeline to LGBTQ+ people who may be facing isolation, discrimination or crisis. Kits will be distributed by LGBT Foundation to LGBTQ+ individuals and families across all UK regions.
The kit packing and donation is part of Glamazon Gives, Amazon’s LGBTQ+ employee-led community giving programme. In partnership with LGBT Foundation, Glamazon Gives has united over 20 Amazon teams across the UK to pack and donate 30,000 kits in total, with 2,000 kits being packed at the Wakefield fulfilment centre alone.
The kits will be donated to LGBT Foundation for distribution to people who may face barriers to accessing sexual health products and services.
Across the UK, Amazon sites came together to donate a total of 30,000 sexual health kits to mark Pride Month.
Pride Month is an opportunity for Amazon and its employees to celebrate and stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community, both inside and outside the workplace. Glamazon Gives reflects that commitment by turning Pride Month into a moment of real, practical action for people in need.
Karen Crookes is an employee at Amazon’s fulfilment centre in Wakefield nd took part in the packing event. She said: “Volunteering for LGBT Foundation with my colleagues meant a lot to me.
"It says something about a workplace when it puts its people and resources behind causes that matter. It let me show up for my community in a way that would be hard to manage on my own time. Doing it shoulder-to-shoulder with my colleagues made it even more rewarding.”
Community donations and employee volunteering are just two of the ways Amazon supports the communities where it operates.
Amazon co-founded the Multibank initiative with former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown to support families in need. The initiative has donated more than 12 million surplus goods to over 800,000 families across Scotland, Wales, Greater Manchester, London, Tees Valley and Birmingham. This year, the Multibank will send 1 million orders to families across the UK.
Amazon has supported more than one million students across the UK with free STEM education programmes through Amazon Future Engineer and helps community organisations transport meals and other essentials to families in need through its pro bono logistics programme, Amazon Local Good.
Amazon partners with Comic Relief and is the official home of the charity’s iconic Red Nose. Together with its employees, customers, and partners, Amazon has raised over £4.8 million to fund projects that support people across the UK, and around the world.