You + Lush have donated £100M
Thank you for helping us reach £100 million in charitable giving!
In 2024 Lush reached this extraordinary milestone!
Since 2007, Lush has supported grassroot organisations and activists through multiple programmes, enabling them to continue their work to improve society. Through our giving streams, by 2024, we had raised over £100 million and made over 19,000 donations globally, thanks to the support of our amazing customers.
The giving streams span across campaigning and giving products through to bi-annual awards such as The Lush Prize. This £250,000 prize fund rewards those working to remove animals from testing, including scientists for their developments of new approach (non-animal tested) methodologies. Our Spring Prize was a £200,000 prize fund that awarded prizes to regenerative practices and those repairing the earth’s damaged systems.
If you shop with us, it won’t be news that we are also a campaigning company, having launched over 50 campaign products so far. Perhaps you even remember our first official campaigning product from 2008: the Guantanamo Garden bath bomb launched with human rights nonprofit organisation Reprieve to highlight the plight of those imprisoned without trial in Guantanamo Bay. We continue to campaign on little-known issues to this day and we promise to keep on going.
When our Co-Founder and CEO Mark Constantine formulated and launched Charity Pot in April 2007, he wished that it would raise £1m for small charities, campaigning groups and other good causes. The aim was to donate small grants to the grassroots activists causing mischief and he envisioned creating absolute chaos if we managed to raise a million from Charity Pot. Since then it has exceeded all expectations and by 2024 had raised £75 million across 17,000 grants. It was the biggest contributor making up 75% of the £100m.
Whilst celebrating this momentous milestone, the company felt it was a good time to pause Charity Pot, to reflect on charitable giving as a whole, and assess the funding needed to meet the current challenges the world faces at this critical time.
In the intervening two years Lush has launched many Giving products highlighting individual issues such as Watermelon soap supporting childhood mental health services in Palestine, the Resilient bath bomb, and There Will Be Sun soap. You can see more of our Giving products here. Learn more about Lush Giving Products here.
Because the world needs more local activism and staff and customers demanded Charity Pot’s return, Lush has brought it back for a new era of soft, soft skin and hard-hitting change!
As before, Charity Pot will be funding small grassroots campaigns and charities campaigning on issues that are often underrepresented or misrepresented and struggle to find mainstream funding.
Some of Charity Pot’s main areas of funding from the UK and Ireland have been:
Animals:
- animal rights;
- trap, neuter, release;
- wildlife rescue;
Environment:
- environmental education;
- climate change;
- regenerative farming;
Human Rights:
- migrant rights;
- LGBTQIA+ rights; and
- women’s rights.
Application for the UK and Ireland Charity Pot fund will open on 1 November 2026.