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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I agree to the extent that I think the figures are surely wrong?? My shop (solo!) could make a one off £10k donation without it being a significant profit loss and that's WITHOUT the associated tax breaks . The entire M&S chain donated £10k?

And 1000 euros is just a joke. Pocket change.

Honestly, we had a bucket go round our office for Children in Need last year and raised £500+ It really is a cheap marketing trick for M&S, they could have given SO much more.

"Marks and Spencer has launched an LGBT+ sandwich to celebrate Pride and raise money for charity, but it has been met with mixed reactions.

The sandwich, which is available to buy in the UK and Ireland, is filled with lettuce, guacamole, bacon and tomato – to fulfil the LGBT acronym – and comes in rainbow-coloured packaging.

The supermarket released the sandwich to raise money for the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) – a charity dedicated to helping homeless LGBT+ youth – and BeLong to Youth Services – an organisation supporting LGBT+ young people in Ireland.

The retailer says it has donated £10,000 to the AKT and will be making a further £1,000 donation to BeLong to Youth Services."

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-a8897631.html