Business spotlight: Moxy Aberdeen Airport
A Good Thing is an online platform that allows businesses to give things away to their local charities. The case study below is an example of the wonderful impact that can be made through these matches.
Business: Moxy Aberdeen Airport
Location: Aberdeen
Sector: hospitality
At A Good Thing, we rely on businesses to donate items via our platform to support charities in need. We recently celebrated 1,000 businesses signed up to the platform and we’d like to spotlight one of them: Moxy Aberdeen Airport, a hotel that has donated thousands of items and supported charities right across the UK.
Moxy hotels, managed by Hotel Co 51
Hotel Co 51 is an organisation with two main goals: to be a great employer in hospitality and to run efficient and sustainable hotels. Hotel Co 51 designs its hotels for sustainability from the very start. The firm’s hotels are built using Cross-Laminated Timber, a durable material that provides excellent thermal efficiency for more energy-efficient and sustainable buildings. Every Hotel Co 51 hotel has achieved either LEED leadership in energy and environmental design) or BREEAM (the world’s leading sustainability assessment for buildings) sustainable building certifications. Moxy Aberdeen Airport has a Green Key certificate and holds Gold LEED status.
Beyond buildings, Hotel Co 51’s Sustainability Team strives to embed sustainable environmental and social practices into every department and decision. This commitment is reflected in Hotel Co 51’s support of A Good Thing as our first ever ‘enterprise’ supporter. The firm’s 16 UK locations, from Aberdeen to Southampton, are all donating items to local charities via the platform.
Moxy Aberdeen Airport and A Good Thing in partnership
Moxy Aberdeen Airport has previously donated items including the following:
400 bedroom pillows
70 litres of designer hair conditioner
5 stylish-floor-standing lamps
3,500 disposable plastic cups.
Each of these items were able to find a new home with local charities rather than ending up as waste. We spoke to Colm Feeley, Regional Director of Marketing UK at Hotel Co 51, about the impact that signing up to A Good Thing has had. Colm said:
“At Moxy Aberdeen Airport, we see sustainability not as a tick-box, but as part of how we show up for our community. Through A Good Thing, we’ve been able to give a second life to items that would otherwise have gone to waste, as well as supporting brilliant local organisations like the Mamacita Foundation and Somebody Cares Scotland in the process.”
On using the A Good Thing platform, Colm shared:
“It’s a simple idea that makes a real difference: the platform helps us turn the practicalities of running a hotel into something positive beyond our walls. We’re reducing waste, supporting local charities, and reminding our team that sustainability can be about generosity as much as it is about our carbon footprint.”
Why hotels should join A Good Thing
The hotel industry generates a significant amount of waste – from food to furniture and furnishings during refurbishments. At A Good Thing, our platform offers a great opportunity for hotels to donate their surplus items rather than sending them to landfill. Colm echoed this sentiment, telling us:
“For the hotel industry, this kind of initiative matters. We’re in the business of hospitality, and that means caring for the place we’re part of, not just the guests who stay with us. A Good Thing helps to make that connection easy, immediate, and genuinely rewarding for everyone involved.”
You can make a real impact, like Moxy Aberdeen Airport, by giving away surplus items to a good cause by signing up with our A Good Thing platform today.