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How we’re sharing our digital expertise with our local community and working to correct the gender imbalance in tech

It’s the 26th November and week seven of our latest girls coding course here at the M&S support centre in Waterside Paddington, in partnership with Code First: Girls. The aim of the programme is to encourage women to become more confident and...

M&S partners with Women in Data

With women outnumbered by almost 3 to 1 in the data community we’ve partnered with Women in Data to drive change and greater representation for women across the industry. Our customers have more choice than ever before about how, when and where...

Celebrating 20 years of the M&S Milk Pledge

Since its launch in 1999, the M&S Milk Pledge has been integral to protecting our farmers and providing them with a secure future and we’re delighted to celebrate 20 years of the promise this month! We’re passionate about quality and sustainable...

Mental Health Day: Putting our minds at the fore

Mental health issues are a reality for so many of us, with 1 in 4 people in the UK experiencing a mental health problem at some point in their lives. The positive news is that the stigmas and attitudes that once surrounded talking about mental...

25 years of Fairtrade: Celebrating our partnership with M&S

This week marks 25 years since the FAIRTRADE Mark launched in the UK. Anniversaries are an opportunity for reflection, and thanks to the support of shoppers and the commitments of leading retailers such as M&S over a quarter of a century, at Fairtrade...

Who would have thought we could have a pop up in Soho?

I’m Aaron, a commercial manager at M&S’s Cribbs Causeway store – Cribbs is a big shopping centre just outside of Bristol and one of M&S’s biggest and best stores. I’ve been with the business nine years and have had...

Supporting the Bahamas

#RestoreBahamasWorking in sourcing for the UK’s biggest Clothing & Home retailer is an exciting job, one that takes me round the world. It’s a very commercial job too – my team & I work with over 50 departments and 10 sourcing...

Recycle Week: Putting recycling into our own hands

Across the industry, packaging plays an important role in preserving products and preventing food waste, however we’re aware of the challenges, particularly with plastic, and we’re working hard to reduce the amount we use. Where this isn’t...

Celebrating 15 years of Marks & Start

This week is National Inclusion Week – so what better week to celebrate 15 years of our employability programme. A programme that has improved inclusion at Marks & Spencer, has supported 20,000 people on their journey to work and that has ultimately...

Bringing the infarm urban farming (r)evolution to the UK with Marks & Spencer

Just under a decade ago, my co-founders and I started to experiment with growing our own fresh produce. We had just moved to Berlin, bought a 1955 Airstream trailer, outfitted it with DIY growing shelves and started experimenting with indoor farming.We...

The Big Exchange

In the summer of 2011, a group of Huddersfield mums (me included) decided to act on something that really matters to us and really matters to our local community – our children getting off to a good start at school.The action came about because...

Protecting the Magic and Modernising the Rest: Food Store Renewal Trial Underway at Hempstead Valley

Stuart Machin, M&S Food Managing Director In Food we have a far-reaching plan to protect the magic of M&S – our market-leading quality, our famous innovation and exceptional sourcing, whilst modernising the rest, particularly our supply...