 I remind members of the Covid-related measures that are in place and that face covering should be worn when moving around the chamber and across the Holyrood campus. The final item of business is a member's business debate on motion 2621, in the name of Alexander Stewart, on the Asstile Foundation and its community work. The debate will be concluded without any questions being put. I would ask those members who wish to speak in the debate to please press the request to speak buttons now, and I call on Alexander Stewart to open the debate up to seven minutes, please, Mr Stewart. Thank you, Jeffrey, Presiding Officer. I am very grateful for the opportunity to open this member's business debate this evening, and I thank colleagues for their support in securing the motion. Coronavirus and its restricting practices have dominated nearly everything in our lives for the last few years. In many cases, we have resulted in tragic results for many, and my thoughts and deep condolences go out to individuals who have lost loved ones and friends in its wake. Bad news has dominated nearly all forms of press and media on a daily basis, and, sadly, it has had a real effect on individuals across communities. However, if we scratch the surface beneath, we will begin to expose some real positives that have emerged from the pandemic. With that respect, I would like to discuss this evening. We have seen a shining example of positiveness that has really been talked about as being the community resilience that has taken place. Prior to the pandemic, we were all getting on with our normal lives, and the pandemic came and shattered that. It meant that some people sold them, spoke to their neighbours or were socialising with them at all. When the seriousness of the Covid pandemic became apparent, things started to break down within communities, and that became apparent. People took to helping each other in calling out to neighbours, albeit from a distance, and many local businesses started to put together support mechanisms to ensure that elderly, disabled and house-bound individuals were supported. That has to be commended. Community spirit and resilience has become a shining example. That has not been the case since the Second World War. Although there has been a myriad of local businesses all working with great opportunities to secure and support, one corporate has shown real resilience in its charity of ensuring that the conditions, support and lockdowns took place. That is the ASDA foundation, as it is known. It dominates and it is donating funds to working with many in-community champions to help to unite communities and celebrate togetherness. It provides grants to a range of good causes in Scotland and across the United Kingdom. Those include hundreds of new groups that have been established to help to deal with the challenges of the pandemic. What they really stand for is ensuring that individuals get support and they are nominated by people within their communities. That has shown that there is a real idea of giving something back to the communities that have supported them. In my region of Mid-Scotland and Fife, as there are a number of large stores in Allawa, Delgety Bay, Donferman, Hellbeath, Llandrothys, Cercodi, Perth and St Leonard, all of them have large community champion organisations within the stores. Their role is to ensure that supporting local community is at their forefront. That can be something from litter picking or helping schools or care homes, providing essential support and supplies. Their tireless support for good causes has really made a massive impact on many of our communities across Mid-Scotland and Fife, and I commend and congratulate them for that. The foundation has a number of ways that it supports and it has grants. For example, the C19 grant was the first response to the pandemic. It offers support through hygiene products for groups supported in care homes, in hospitals and for the homeless. Getting schools back on track is another grant that schools were struggling to secure items. It helped them with PPE, uniform banks, stationery, breakfast and after-school clubs. They all get support from that. Another area is the green token-giving customers who are able to nominate and vote for the causes that they would like to support within the community. The champions nominate local causes who are outstanding and supporting individuals. Supporting communities was delivering through the essential items that were donated within the store. Groups can apply for food hygiene and wellbeing products, being community-based and bringing them back together. Grants are also there to celebrate and support during lockdown. In the easing of the restrictions, when that became more apparent, communities could once again meet together safely. They took forward with that. However, there have been many individuals in the company who have supported and done many things. Cardinal Owens from Asden-Nogeti Bay raised money and awareness from Asda, which was the tickled pink breast cancer campaign, in which she was marking 10 years for her own diagnosis, in which she donated and supported and was sponsored to secure money. Barbara Ingalls from the community campaign from Asden and Firmland gave a kid a start and donated essentials for Christmas boxes in volunteering and isolating for families across from Firmland and the Fife area. Michelle Stevenson, the community antivirus in Glenrothes, donated large amounts of vegetables to Lesley community pantry to provide support and made sure that that was happening over the Christmas period. David Finlay from Click and Collect went the extra mile in supporting and ensuring that individuals who could not receive support and were not getting their homes and a shopping delivered, he went out of his way to ensure that that took place. There are many stories and more individuals who have supported and come together to ensure that that is the case. The inclusion of the grants can be anything from £250,000 to £1,000 from the foundation bringing communities back together. It is very much there. They are working hand in hand to ensure. Examples within Fife are, for example, the steel basketball club in Kirkcaldy who received £713 for their under-14 squad to receive new kits. Another example was the rebellion school parents' partnership in Glenrothes where they received £1,000 to start the big breakfast club that they had not been able to have for 18 months, but that gave them the opportunity. We have also seen that across the area, as they have secured £16,165 of support to 21 local projects. Throughout the foundation, they have made sure that they have donated more than £700,000, helping to bring local communities back together again in addition to supporting individuals. In conclusion, I would like to pay tribute to each and every group, each and every individual and community champion and, as therefor, with their outstanding work in supporting communities the length and breadth of Scotland. I commend and congratulate them on their endeavours, their foresight and their community resilience. Each and every one of them has gone that extra mile to step up and stand up to support individuals and communities. It just goes to show what can be achieved when we all work together under the banner of community resilience. I wish, as the foundation, all the best as it continues for the future. I now call Jackie Dunbar to be followed by Dean Lockhart. I want to start off by thanking Alexander Stewart for bringing forward his motion for members' debate today. I'm pleased to be able to recognise the continued commitment by the ASDA Foundation to make the communities around its stores better places to live and work for their staff, customers and the wider community. The ASDA Foundation has been able to give back to the communities, as we have heard, that they serve through the Bringing Communities Back Together project. The project gives grants to local groups and organisations that have helped to reunite communities, celebrate togetherness and support groups as they resume their activities in person. In my constituency of Aberdeen-Donside, there have been a few groups that have benefited from the funding through the project, such as North Star 2010, Dice Boys Club Whites 2006 and organisations such as North East Sensory Services, who support individuals across my constituency, as well as the wider North East region. Further to their Bringing Communities Back Together project, the ASDA Foundation is able to give back to communities through the green token given scheme, which I am sure anyone who shops in ASDA will be familiar with. The scheme creates a form of local democracy and empowers customers and their community to decide which small local grassroots organisations they believe should get funding. I am aware that Scotland-wide, ASDA has donated around £319,000 with Aberdeen stores benefiting from £14,400. Two stores in my constituency donate around £1,800 each to their local communities. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the in-store green token scheme was suspended, unfortunately, which led to the introduction of online voting in 2021, which has enabled both customers of ASDA, as well as the wider public, to vote for the projects that matter most to them. In my constituency of Aberdeen-Donside, a number of local projects and organisations have been fortunate enough to receive funding through ASDA's green token given scheme. Organisations such as the Bridge of Dawn and Danestone first responder service have put the money that they receive through the green token scheme to the running of their service and the installation and upkeep of the vital public access defibrillators. It is also important to note that each ASDA store across Scotland has its own community champion. Community champions listen to the needs of the communities of each store and work with local people to ensure that ASDA is providing support to those who need it most. I have recently been made aware of some of the outstanding work that community champions Fiona Cumming, who works at ASDA DICE, and John Craig, who works at ASDA Middleton Park, do with her respective communities and my applause goes out to them. Presiding Officer, I am happy to spread the word about the fantastic work that ASDA and their community champions are doing in Aberdeen-Donside and throughout Scotland. I look forward to working with them in the future to further this work. Thank you. I now call Dean Lockhart to be followed by David Torrance. Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. Let me also thank my colleague Alexander Stewart for bringing this motion to the chamber this afternoon. During the Covid pandemic, the ASDA Foundation has shown that it can positively and actively make a difference to community life across Scotland. We all have examples from our own constituencies and regions of local voluntary organisations that have been supported by ASDA for a number of years now. It is helpful to provide some background to the importance of the financial and other assistance that ASDA has been providing. According to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, there are about 45,000 voluntary organisations in Scotland, the vast majority of which are community-based. Those community initiatives have been hard hit by the pandemic with over 20 per cent of charities facing a critical need of funding and facing the harsh reality of having possibly to close down. The problem has also been exacerbated by the majority of charities having to postpone or cancel fundraising events because of lockdown restrictions. Charities have also seen volunteer numbers all during the pandemic for understandable reasons. While all this is happening at the same time, charities are facing an increasing demand for their services as local communities need assistance during the pandemic. Assistance with financial, social and the health impacts of the pandemic in local communities. With this challenging background one of the important ways in which the ASDA Foundation has been able to support is to provide grants to a range of good causes to hundreds of new community groups that have been established during the pandemic. Reflecting the community nature of the assistance, as we have heard from other colleagues, each project supported by ASDA is nominated by people and communities in their own local community. It is important to emphasise that local communities have identified which organisations are in most need of support. In my own region of Mid Scotland and Fife the list of volunteer organisations and charities supported by the ASDA Foundation is long. That has been supported through bringing communities back together fund. There are five ASDA stores in the region which have supported 19 projects with funding over £15,000. I have also been made aware this week that further awards are being made by two ASDA stores in Mid Scotland and Fife supporting other projects across the region which I am sure they will very much welcome. I would like to mention a few individual projects that have been supported by the ASDA Foundation. First of all the Linton Centre in Cercodi. This is one of Cercodi's longest running community centres with a history dating back almost 100 years. During this time the Linton Centre has been at the heart of events in the Temple Hall area and beyond. The centre provides a home for a range of services including nursery play groups, child health clinics, advice on addiction support as well as a Monday to Friday venue for the Cercodi food bank. There are also numerous recreational groups which are based at and operate from the centre. The additional funding provided by the ASDA Foundation has been a vital and very welcome boost to all those involved with the Linton Centre. Another example is the award granted by ASDA in Glenrothes to Arden House. Arden House is a voluntary organisation established in 1982 providing a range of services including base centre services for older people living independently in the community who are at risk of socialising isolation due to complex health reasons something that has very much been exacerbated during the pandemic. There are many other examples which have been and will be highlighted by colleagues during this debate. Let me conclude by thanking once again the ASDA Foundation for their continuing hard work and support for the benefit of communities and the support of many valuable local organisations across Mid Scotland and Fife across Scotland and across the UK. Thank you. I now call David Torrance to be followed by Claire Baker. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I would also like to thank Alexander Stewart for securing his debate in Parliament tonight. I have always been impressed by the work of ASDA Foundation and the very real difference it makes to small local organisations through its support. As we all know, there have been many new groups established to help people deal with the challenges being faced as a result of a pandemic and significant positive impact on many local communities in a variety of ways. The development of the two new Covid-19 grants by the Foundation and the new £200,000 partnership with the Royal Volunteers Service to help tackle loneliness and isolation is great news for our communities. The healthy holiday grant, which allows groups we would typically behold in summer holidays activities providing a healthy and nutritious meal to children to continue. The grant will provide invaluable support to some of the most vulnerable in our communities and those most affected by the pandemic. Those grants are very welcome in addition to a long-established green token giving scheme with transforming communities and improving lives grant, the emergency fund and the slightly newer bringing communities back together fund. The grant was launched to help reunite communities, celebrate togetherness and support groups as we continue from the coronavirus pandemic. I was delighted to learn at the end of last year about local causes in my constituency, including the Linton Lane Centre and the Galton Community Group benefits from just over £3,000 of funding. In these challenging times the money will be of great help to these groups. We have already heard this evening from my colleagues some of the numbers involved such as 1 million that is invested in over 4,000 local good causes every year. I won't repeat that as already being said but I do want to touch with what I feel is of great importance. The fact that each project supported by the Foundation is nominated by local people and communities. It is a thanks to these community engagement input and feedback that this investment reaches the grassroot groups and organisations that we need at most. The groups in my constituency including the wee blues rugby club, five migrants forum, five steels basketball club, linton lane centre, five food bank, five head pensioners and nourish are amongst those to have benefited from the Foundation and to great advantage. There are all significant community groups and resources that make a big impact on local communities and are recognised as such by local people. Whilst community engagement is important and I will continue to be so no debate about the work of the Foundation would be complete but for acknowledging the vital link that is made by as does community champions. My name is Jeane and since first being elected in 2011 I have had the opportunity to work closely with her in Azdar Scolchory store. It is always a pleasure to attend and participate in their many fundraising and community events. Thanks to Jeane and her infectious enthusiasm pre-pandemic it was not unusual to see me in my local Azdar store supporting an elf suit, a pink tutu or some other novelty costume. Singing along with a choir are being heckled by a group of school children. Actually with Easter fast approaching and if allowed I'm sure she'll already have the bunny ears all lined up and ready to go. As I'm sure is the case with many other community champions across Scotland I frequently see Azdar Scolchory champion out and about within the community. Whether it is being litter picking helping local food bank or on local schools is important that the work of these champions is also celebrated and I would like to give my personal thanks to each and every one of them for their hard work and dedication. Thanks to the co-operate foundation and the small grass-root organisations across all our constituencies. My conclusion, Presiding Officer I'd like to commend Azdar to her commitment to making communities around her stores better places to live and work for both colleagues and customers. I look forward to continuing to work closely with them in the years to come as they help to transform communities and improve lives throughout Scotland. Thank you. Thank you. I now call Claire Baker to be followed by Pam Gozel. I congratulate Alexander Stewart on securing the debate for the chamber this afternoon and for the opportunity to speak about Azdar's bringing communities back together, fund and the broader work of the Azdar Foundation in supporting communities. Azdar, such as the other big supermarkets is a significant company and a familiar aspect of modern life for many of us. I congratulate Alexander Stewart on securing the debate for the chamber this afternoon and for the partner to be chosen to be here. We have recently talked about supermarkets considering the retail sector and supply chains. My committee has taken evidence on supply chains and I recognise the challenges with shortages that many retailers have experienced. While large supermarkets provide a vital service during lockdown in the pandemic, we cannot deny that their profits did benefit through that experience. Supermarkets such as Azdar a'r number of ways, such as taking steps to address food poverty, promote healthy diets, improve food labelling and also supporting the communities that they are situated in. The prominence of large retailers give them a huge role in their communities and in family life, and it is welcome when they take steps to invest in the areas that provide them with a loyal customer base and income. Many people rely on large supermarkets, perhaps for financial or geographic reasons, and for some the convenience of being able to purchase everything in one place is critical. It is welcome that ASDA builds relationships with the communities in which it is based and works with local people and projects where possible. ASDA have run a number of schemes over the years to support local communities, and those include its community life programme and the hard work of local community life champions, highlighted by Alexander Stewart. Those people really reflect community spirit, and like David Torrance, I recognise the long-standing commitment of Gene from the ASDA Inker Coddy. Through the pandemic, the ASDA Foundation has awarded over 700,000 across Scotland, including over 72,000 in Midscotland and Fife. Through its green token, giving awards and grants scheme, 174 local groups have benefited, and I know how much that is valued. A key part of the support was the Bringing Communities Back Together grant, introduced as lockdown restrictions ease to help provide community groups with funding for celebratory events and items that need to get back on track. The five, as the stores across Midscotland and Fife region have supported 19 local projects with a funding of more than £15,000. Among the groups that benefit from the fund are Fife Steel, Basketball Club and Inker Coddy, who were granted funding for new kits, and Rimboltom, Primary and Glenrothes, who used the grant to restart their big breakfast club. I am pleased to have the opportunity to recognise and welcome the work of those schemes and the hard work of those involved. The support is provided to communities as we emerge from the pandemic. Throughout the pandemic, we saw the strength of our communities in supporting those in need, from the setting up of soup kitchens in people's homes to deliver to the vulnerable, isolated and elderly, to the creation of buggy walk groups to help new parents to meet others in the area. I am grateful to individuals, organisations and businesses across my region who have come together to establish ways to help with the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and recovery. However, too often, those community groups are responding to an absence, those community grants are responding to an absence of provision elsewhere. The increase in food bank donations during the pandemic was praise, but the fact that so many had to rely on those services reflects a broader failure. Far too many people have been left struggling over the past two years, as the impacts of the pandemic have pushed many of those who were already struggling further into difficulty. While businesses such as Asda have a role to play by giving something back and supporting local community activity, the levels of funding involved are limited and, while I am sure that they are meant to be about topping up and offering additional support, they can too often be seen to be plugging gaps. That is not the role of supermarkets and we need to ensure that our voluntary sector is properly supported and every effort is made to increase the incomes of the low-paid and those on benefits. Then we could really see the strength of schemes such as Asda's and providing the additional community sport events and activities that have been valued across Miss Scotland in Fife. Thank you. I now call Pam Gosel, who will be the last speaker before I ask the minister to respond to the debate. Thank you, Presiding Officer. It is great to stand here today for members' business, especially given the uplifting and positive nature of this motion. Since the beginning of the pandemic, everyone has struggled whether that be financially, emotionally or physically. It is in these moments of darkness where community heroes have rose to the occasion. I am therefore delighted to support the motion brought before us by my colleague Alexander Stewart, which acknowledges the commitment and the tangible differences that are made to the wider community by the Asda Foundation. Sometimes it can be easy to forget that businesses are not just about generating profit or creating jobs but about building communities and enhancing livelihoods. As my colleague Alexander mentioned, the Asda Foundation, other businesses, organisations and individuals have been bringing together and supporting local communities throughout lockdown and as lockdown restrictions ease. Presiding Officer, in my region, the Asda Foundation has supported school children both during the lockdown and as they returned back to school. 500lb grants saw healthy packed lunches and delivered during the lockdown. 90 laptop bundles to nine schools in my region. Grants supporting families on return to school items and breakfasts and after-school clubs. Through the hygiene fund, the foundation donated 250,000 medical grade face masks to struggling care homes alongside additional grants to the purchase personal hygiene items for the care home residents and the staff. The awarded funding of around 31,000 to 39 projects across West Scotland helping to get local activities restarted. In addition to the funding initiatives, the Green Token giving programme has encouraged local residents to get involved in supporting local causes. 24 local causes have been received funding from the programme, including Clydebank Women's Aid and Milgaise Old People's Welfare Committee and many more. I am sure that we have all heard the stories of individuals and organisations in our local area helping out during the pandemic in numerous ways, helping elderly and vulnerable residents to get their shopping in, picking up prescriptions or even walking the dogs. As is one of many organisations that have been helping hands-on in many difficult times, we often forget about the ripple effect that thriving businesses can have on communities. However, the stories told here today remind us not only of the importance of businesses giving back to the community in which we are all in, but also the importance of local businesses to residents. I thank Asda Foundation, as well as other organisations and individuals all across Scotland who have contributed to community work, whether that be monetary means or simply by helping out. I hope that, going forward, we can all appreciate the businesses in our local areas and return the favour by supporting them as they make their recovery from the pandemic. I now call on Tom Arthur to respond to the debate. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I begin by congratulating Alexander Stewart on securing this excellent debate. It has been an absolute pleasure to hear from members across the chamber and virtually of the outstanding work that the Asda Foundation has been doing in its constituencies and regions. Before turning to the substantive part of my response to the motion, I am sure that the whole chamber would want to join me having heard the speech from Mr David Torrance about his endeavours to support the Asda Foundation, if indeed he wears novelty costumes and indeed a pink tutu. I know that, a few years ago, he had his long hair, his long locks shaved off in Parliament and today's money. Are we going to see the pink tutu in Parliament? That is a question that is on all our lips. This has been an inspiring debate to hear about the work of the community champions and the community groups at the support. It has also been inspiring because, as members have noted, notwithstanding the huge challenges that our communities have collectively faced throughout the pandemic, there has been a huge amount of learning that Mr Stewart has made a reference to perhaps the greatest sense of community spirit since the years of the Second World War. I do not think that that is overstating it. When we face the huge challenges that we face in recovery and in addressing the inequalities that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, something that Claire Baker touched upon, is that partnership working in that community spirit, which is going to be absolutely essential. Although there are forums to do that through our community planning partnerships and the work that we do locally as MSPs and our third sector interfaces, there is also great work that we are seeing from the private sector. Pam Goss spoke about the ripple effect that businesses can have. Indeed, I would join Pam Goss about encouraging constituents and members of the public across Scotland to repay the support that so many local businesses have provided throughout the pandemic. Of course, I recognise the incredible work that the As The Foundation has done and to thank them for their efforts to help to reunite communities. I understand that they are committed to making the communities around their stores better places to live and work, and they partner with thousands of charities, community groups and local good causes to support projects that make communities a better place to live. The foundation's mission is to transform communities and improve lives throughout the UK, complementing as the store's ambition to be at the heart of local communities. I understand that each project that they support is nominated by the people and communities that they serve, and for them, sharing their passion is the ideal way to give something back to the local communities that support them. Over the course of the pandemic to date, the foundation has supported more than 1,700 groups with awards totaling over £750,000. As members have noted, they ran the healthy holiday fund, which provided grants of £500 to local groups to make and deliver healthy pack lunches during lockdown to the children who normally receive free-skill meals. They invested £2 million to provide 7,000 laptops and tech packages to schools across the UK to help those children who were at risk of falling behind because they did not have the technology to take part in online lessons during lockdown, and they donated 250,000 medical grade face masks to care homes that were struggling to access them at the height of the pandemic. Those are just some of the examples of the fantastic work that the foundation has done for communities, and I would like to give them my sincere thanks and applaud their sterling efforts. I would also like to take this opportunity, Presiding Officer, to thank other independent funders for their on-going support and efforts in supporting the third sector and their communities. The pandemic has proven beyond doubt that the organisation's networks and people who make up the third sector are critical to the health and wellbeing of our people, our places and our community. During that incredibly difficult time, places have remained communities, places where people feel safe and valued and where they are included and have connections because of the tireless efforts of these organisations, networks and people. Despite health restrictions and significant increases in demand for services, the work of the third sector has been key in the resilience of our communities throughout the pandemic. The Scottish Government wants to recognise that and work to create the best conditions for the third sector to thrive and contribute to Scotland's recovery. I would also like to thank the partners who worked with us at PACE to develop the wellbeing fund in 2020, including SCVO, The Hunter Foundation, CORA and Inspiring Scotland. The £50 million wellbeing fund was part of the £350 million package of emergency funding to support people who are most affected by the pandemic. The funding was distributed across Scotland through a mix of grants to local charities, third sector interfaces and national priorities, as well as open applications, worth more than £21 million. In addition and in recognition of the important role that small grassroots community groups play in supporting adult mental health and wellbeing, the Scottish Government's £15 million communities mental health and wellbeing fund for adults was announced on 15 October 2021. That is the first year of a two-year fund to support mental health and wellbeing in communities across Scotland. It aims to build on the excellent examples of good practice and innovation that we have seen emerge throughout the pandemic. The fund will focus on suicide prevention, social isolation and loneliness, prevention and early intervention, as well as addressing the mental health inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic and the needs of a range of at-risk groups. The fund will support small grassroots community groups and organisations to deliver such activities, thus providing opportunities for people to connect and revitalise their communities. The fund will be delivered through a locally focused and co-ordinated approach via local partnerships groups, working together to ensure that support community-based organisations is directed appropriately and in a coherent way. The Scottish Government has a clear vision for community-led regeneration, two, supported by our place-based investment and our empowering communities programmes, which enables our communities to use their distinct local knowledge, expertise and commitment to respond and adapt to big challenges in their own way, helping them to shape their own futures. The investment is supporting them to develop community assets, enabling them to generate their own income and in turn supporting the creation of new jobs and access to services that benefit the people in their communities. Over 340 community organisations and community-led projects are being supported in 2021-22, with investment totalling nearly £13 million. Continuous support for the programme forms a key commitment in our Covid recovery strategy, which recognises the action that is taken by communities in response to the pandemic as a key part of the resilience of our communities. At the start of December, I had the pleasure of speaking to a debate on loving local, where I spoke of the important role that our local shops and businesses have within our communities. This financial year, we launched our £10 million multi-year Scotland Loves Local programme, which aims to encourage people to think and choose local. The programme is designed to support recovery from Covid for our communities and local businesses and embed the Loves Local culture that we started to witness during the pandemic. It encourages a safe return to our town and city centres, taking care to follow guidelines to look after each other. Our shared experience during the pandemic has demonstrated the potential of local communities and businesses to work together. Working collaboratively and in partnership is so vitally important because we cannot achieve our ambitions without working with and for our communities without real participation and engagement and harnessing our collective resources for local impact. That is what a place-based approach is about—working together to tackle the challenges and support of our communities to thrive. I thank the Asda Foundation again. Ray reflects the principles of a place-based approach and is a shining example for supporting local communities and making a real difference to the lives of local people. I understand that they have numerous other grants planned for 2022, which will continue the fantastic work that we have done so far and will continue to have a positive impact on the local communities. I thank Alexander Stewart and members across the chamber for their contributions this afternoon for recognising the excellent work of the Asda Foundation and its community champions.