After celebrating ten years of the Foundation in 2019, we thought we would revisit some of the first projects we supported, to see how they were doing. Fotobi School applied to the Foundation in 2009. At the time, students at the Junior High School were forced to study in unsafe, […]
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DFID Minister, Baroness Sugg, visits Blue Skies in Corby
Blue Skies calls on support for more businesses to make value-added products in Africa, during visit by UK Minister for International Development to factory in Corby. Baroness Elizabeth Sugg, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, today visited the Blue Skies fresh-cut fruit facility in Corby. Blue Skies is […]
Reducing Plastics
THE FACTS We are committed to minimising the environmental impact of all our materials, in terms of how they are sourced, how they are used and how they are disposed of. OUR BLUEPRINT COMMITMENT We are committed to minimising the environmental impact of all our materials, in terms of how […]
Helping the community to reduce plastic pollution
In Siyathemba, the community near our factory in South Africa, the local waste site had over the years got in to a bad state. Plastics were strewn all over the fence and were polluting the nearby area, and animals had been able to enter unfenced areas and become affected by […]
Download our December edition of Pelican News
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: -Our School Farm Competition awards its 2019 winners -We launch our Blueprint monthly campaigns -Mohamed Shalaby speaks […]
School Farm Awards inspire the next generation
Blue Skies is encouraging the next generation of agricultural entrepreneurs after crowning the winners of its 2019 School Farm of the Year Competition in Ghana. The School Farm Competition of the Year Competition was launched by the Blue Skies Foundation in 2015 as a way of encouraging more young people […]
Download our November edition of Pelican News
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: -Blue Skies Ghana fights off attempt to cut down protected tree -Annual Conference unveils Future Fit plan […]
Fatou Guere wins our 2019 Chairman’s Award
Congratulations to Fatou Guere from Blue Skies Senegal who has won our 2019 Chairman’s Award, which was announced at our conference on the 18th of November. Fatou Guere joined Blue Skies Senegal in July 2012. She was quickly noticed and the following year she was promoted to the position of […]
Twelve new Foundation Projects Approved for 2020
The Blue Skies Foundation has approved twelve new projects for 2020, including its first project in Brazil. The projects were approved at a Board Meeting in Ghana attended by representatives of Blue Skies, Waitrose and Albert Heijn. Our 2020 projects include: A maternity clinic for a community near to our […]
Blueprint Award Winners Revealed
The 2019 Blueprint Awards have been announced during the Blue Skies Annual Conference at Sedgebrook Hall in the UK. In total, over 25 nominations were received in three categories; Care for the Environment, Respect for People and Driving Efficiencies. Pictured top left: Lukasz Banas from Blue Skies UK collects the […]
