200 Degrees Acts of Kindness lets you swap hygiene products for coffee

Those fantastic people at 200 Degrees Coffee are enabling their equally fantastic customers to help those who are less fortunate than they are.

How? They are going to let their customers donate hygiene products in exchange for coffee throughout its coffee shops this Christmas season.

Why? Because the sad reality is that many people in the UK simply do not have proper access to basic hygiene products. And this problem, points out 200 Degrees, has been made worse by the pandemic.

So 200 Degrees is inviting its coffee loving customers to bring new, unused, unopened items like deodorants, soaps, shower gel, shampoo, period products, baby care items, shaving foam, household cleaning products and other hygiene basics into any of its premises. 

200 Degrees will then work with local charities within each city to make sure they are distributed to local people in need.

They'll be hosting a Swap Shop on Wednesday 8 December, asking their customers to bring in personal hygiene products at any of its coffee shops, in exchange for a free cup of coffee.

The teams in each of their coffee shops have chosen local charities, which includes Manchester's Booth Centre,  a community centre offering support for people impacted by homelessness, and Helping Hands, Birmingham which provides food, blankets and other essentials to homeless people nightly.

The team at 200 Degrees are continuing to spread kindness with other initiatives including its ‘12ish Days of Christmas’ campaign, which will see surprise gifting of all sorts of experiences, messages of kindness on takeaway coffee cup lids and rewarding some of its loyal customers with 200 Degrees goodies.

Will Kenney, who is the commercial director at 200 Degrees Coffee, said: “The festive season should be a restful time of year for all, but sadly there are many thousands who face difficult circumstances, instead.

“Acts of Kindness is about us trying to make a small, positive difference to people who are having a tough time and also thanking our customers for being brilliant.

“The Swap Shop alone will collect much needed products that will be distributed to the amazing communities around our shops.”

To find out more about 200 Degrees and their 15 coffee shops please visit them at https://200degs.com/.

Their coffee shops are located in Nottingham, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Leicester, Cardiff, Sheffield, Lincoln, Liverpool, Manchester, York and Cannock. https://200degs.com/pages/our-coffee-shops.