The TK Maxx & Homesense Foundation

The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation is pleased to be helping vulnerable children, young people and their families to achieve their potential in our local communities. Over the last 7 years, The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation has donated over £7 million to thousands of local and national charities across Europe.

Inclusion and Diversity

Since 2020, the TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation has partnered with charities across Europe to provide funding for projects and initiatives that promote inclusion and diversity. The Foundation has committed to donate over £1.45M to charities supporting racial justice, mental health, people with disabilities and the LGBTQ+ community.

The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation will continue to support the LGBTQ+ community now and in the future. In the UK, the Foundation donates to Diversity Role Models and The Diana Award.

Diversity Role Models: The latest donation from the Foundation will enable Diversity Role Models to deliver workshops to support and create inclusive attitudes and behaviours in deprived areas in the UK and help schools tackle LGBTQ+ bullying. This delivers workshops for 37 schools reaching around 5,550 young people.

The Diana Award: The latest donation from the Foundation will go towards providing resources to support young people on The Diana Award’s anti-homophobic and biphobic bullying programmes. The resources will help support 400 young people as anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic ambassadors from 50 schools over two years.

Throughout the rest of Europe, the Foundation also donates to the following LGBTQ+ charities: Belong To in Ireland, Projekt 100% MENSCH in Germany, Lambda Warszawa in Poland, Hosi Wien in Austria and COC in the Netherlands.

The Community Fund

The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation funds and administers the Community Fund which enables TJX, TK Maxx and Homesense associates to nominate charities they are passionate about, to receive a donation to make a difference in their local communities.

Rebecca Nominated Claire House Children’s Hospice

"My colleague Izzy who was an associate at our Edge Lane store was diagnosed with a rare type of kidney cancer in 2019. It unfortunately spread to her liver and bones, but Claire House supported Izzy and her family massively, making her remaining time memorable. It was Claire House that made her final weeks safe at home. Izzy sadly passed away in May 2020. Claire House Children’s Hospice helps seriously and terminally ill children live their life to the full by creating wonderful experiences and bringing back a sense of normality to family life."

Anne Nominated Ruff & Ruby

“My husband and I had gone into the shop purely for a coffee and cake and came out inspired having met the wonderful woman behind the project. We learnt about the amazing work she did with teenagers in our local area - part of which is she personally redecorates their bedrooms to give them one room where they can feel proud and safe. Proceeds from items sold in this area are dedicated to projects on the mental wellbeing of the youth in Stoke on Trent.”

Covid-19 Response

The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation funded a two-part programme which contributed an amazing £1,700,000 to charities mobilised in the fight against Covid-19.

Set up by The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation, the Community Fund enabled TK Maxx and Homesense associates to nominate local charities working hard in the fight against Covid-19 and supporting the most vulnerable.

The second part of the programme was the Tackle Covid-19 Fund of £700,000, donated by The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation to mental health charities and front-line medical charities across Europe, supporting those impacted by Covid-19.

Disaster and Emergency Response

In 2018, The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation became partners with the British Red Cross and joined their Disaster Relief Alliance. The Foundation donates £135,000 annually to their Disaster Fund which helps to fund global emergency response. So far, the funds have helped to support victims of the Covid-19 crisis, UK storms and flooding, Indonesia Earthquake, Zimbabwe Food Insecurity, Cyclone Idai and many more. In addition to this, the Foundation has made further donations to provide additional support to communities that need it, such as the India Covid-19 crisis, flooding in Central Europe and those affected by the war in Ukraine.

The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales (1162073) Registered as a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales (9156201) Registered address: 73 Clarendon Road, Watford, WD17 1TX.