Every year, Andron colleagues use their paid volunteer days to support causes that matter to them and their communities. By December 2025, teams had already contributed more than 400 hours of volunteering – not including the additional time given through our Christmas initiatives.
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, our colleagues, clients and supply partners supported local charities, community initiatives, and client-led fundraising efforts across the UK, helping behind the scenes at events, sorting donations, and working with charity partners to collect and wrap gifts for children and families. Here’s a small snapshot of how Team Andron came together.
Cash for Kids West Scotland – Charity lunch and Mission Christmas
Over in Glasgow, teams supported the Clyde 1 Cash for Kids West Scotland charity lunch at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Glasgow – an event that raised £400,000 to support disadvantaged children across the region. To top it all off, some members of the team even got to meet their hero, George Bowie.
They also worked with several clients, including CBRE, Colliers and JLL, to support the Mission Christmas appeal at the Cash for Kids West Scotland Glasgow warehouse, sorting and packing gifts for hundreds of children living in poverty across the city. For many families struggling with the cost of living, Christmas can be difficult, and some children risk waking up on Christmas morning with nothing to open. Mission Christmas aims to change that, ensuring children have something special to unwrap on Christmas morning.
Cash for Kids Mission Christmas – Aberdeen and Manchester
Colleagues from our Aberdeen team spent two days volunteering with Cash for Kids Aberdeen, an initiative they support every year, sorting and wrapping presents donated by the public to bring joy to children and families in need at Christmas.
Meanwhile, our Manchester Cash for Kids Mission Christmas campaign saw collaboration between many of Andron’s clients and supply partners, including CBRE GWS, Birchwood Park, JLL, Essity, Tork, Wates, and others. Andron made a £3,000 financial donation and provided lunch for everyone involved, including the Cash for Kids team. The day was a strong example of organisations coming together to support children and families who need it most, with another generous donation also made by OCU.
Social Bite Festival of Kindness – Aberdeen and Edinburgh
Our annual support of Social Bite’s Festival of Kindness is something our teams across Scotland look forward to each year. The campaign aims to end homelessness by providing essential items, connecting people to support services, and meeting critical needs during the festive period. This year, it aimed to deliver 300,000 meals, gifts and essential items to people experiencing homelessness and vulnerability across the UK.
In Edinburgh, colleagues wrapped up their final volunteering day of the year packing rucksacks filled with essential items – heat-tech clothing, hot water bottles, hats, scarves, gloves, socks, toiletries and selection boxes. These rucksacks will support around 2,500 people experiencing homelessness across Scotland, including in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
As part of the campaign, Social Bite runs the Tree of Kindness initiative, placing large Christmas trees in city centres including Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Birmingham and Aberdeen, inviting people to donate gifts, essential items or toys for those experiencing homelessness, poverty or isolation during winter. Andron’s Accounts Supervisor Julie Tetzner spent the day at the Aberdeen Tree of Kindness, speaking with members of the public and explaining the difference even the smallest donation can make. Julie will also volunteer at Social Bite’s Aberdeen café on Christmas Eve – something she’s done for several years. Our Aberdeen team also gave up their lunch breaks and spare time outside of work to sign Christmas cards and gift tags, and hosted a Christmas Jumper Day fundraiser.
Three Snowhill’s Christmas Giving Tree and Wrapping Station
At client site Three Snowhill, working alongside CBRE, teams set up a Christmas Giving Tree and Wrapping Station, collecting toy donations and offering gift-wrapping in support of charities such as Kids’ Village, Ronald McDonald House and Brum Wish’s Toy Drive. These initiatives helped ensure that critically ill and vulnerable children and the families supporting them could still experience the magic of Christmas. The team also partnered with CBRE to pack and sort donated presents for Mission Christmas.
Wrap Up London
In London, colleagues volunteered with Bywaters as part of Wrap Up London, one of the largest winter volunteering events in the city, sorting and categorising 580 coats and other essential items for distribution to people in need across the capital.
Volunteering at Oxfam’s Covent Garden store
Our London teams also volunteered at Oxfam’s Covent Garden store, which receives more donations than any other Oxfam shop in the capital. Volunteers helped sort donated stock, organise the shop floor, assist customers and operate the till – supporting Oxfam’s mission to fight the injustice of poverty. For every £1 Oxfam spends, 79p goes directly towards emergency and development work.
This work also plays a role in reducing the harm caused by fast fashion. Buying from Oxfam gives clothing a second life and lowers the environmental impact of overproduction and waste. We already have enough clothes on Earth to clothe six generations, yet by 2050 the fashion industry is on track to produce 138 billion items of unworn clothing every year – enough to stretch almost from the Earth to Mars and back if laid end to end. By encouraging shoppers to choose pre-loved items this Christmas, our teams helped lower demand for fast fashion.
Choose Love
The Crown Estate team supported Choose Love at its Regent Street pop-up store. Choose Love is a UK-based charity supporting refugees and displaced people worldwide, with 100% of funds raised going directly to partner charities and people on the ground. Volunteers greeted customers, explained the charity’s mission, restocked merchandise, assisted shoppers, and worked the till. They also supported visits from special guests and celebrities, including Andy Bell, Laura Bailey and Chris Martin, who came in to encourage donations.
Thanks to everyone who made this happen – the colleagues giving their time on site, the clients and partners who supported these initiatives, and everyone who contributed throughout the year. We’re looking forward to building on this in 2026.