Wipe out waste: PDI’s wipes deliver big impact across communities
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.
Donor: PDI International
Location: Corby, Northamptonshire
What was donated? 480 packs of detergent wipes
Sector: hygiene, toiletries
Charities that benefitted:
Home-Start Newry & Mourne (Newry, Northern Ireland)
St Germain’s Church (Edgbaston, Birmingham)
Carryduff Playcare Centre (Carryduff, Northern Ireland)
Cransley Hospice Trust (North Northamptonshire)
Village Hall & Walled Garden Charity (Coverack, Cornwall)
Clean support, shared far and wide
A Good Thing exists to connect businesses with charities that can put surplus items to immediate use – and this latest match shows just how powerful a simple donation can be!
Corby-based hygiene specialist PDI International is a global manufacturer dedicated to infection-prevention products. PDI recently donated 480 packs of detergent wipes, helping five charities across the UK and Northern Ireland maintain clean, safe, welcoming environments for the people they support.
Practical help where it matters most
From Newry and Carryduff to Birmingham, Northamptonshire and Cornwall, the wipes are already making an impact.
In Newry, Northern Ireland, Home-Start Newry & Mourne provides volunteer-led emotional and practical support to families with young children facing challenging circumstances, helping parents build stronger, more stable home lives. The wipes will support hygiene across its family programmes, ensuring welcoming and safe spaces for parents and children.
At St Germain’s Church in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the donation is supporting its Community Hub cafe and wellbeing services, which provide affordable meals, advice sessions, and social activities designed to reduce isolation and support mental wellbeing within the local community. The wipes will be used both to support families accessing the church’s food provision and to help maintain a clean, safe environment for visitors.
Meanwhile, the Cransley Hospice Trust, based in Northamptonshire, raises funds to support specialist end-of-life care services for people with life-limiting illnesses and their families. The wipes will help maintain essential hygiene across its facilities, contributing to comfortable, dignified care environments.
Reaching communities near, and far
A particularly meaningful part of this match is its reach into remote communities, helping ensure charities are supported regardless of their location. Carryduff Playcare Centre and the Village Hall & Walled Garden Charity in Coverack, Cornwall – both tagged as ‘remote’ within the A Good Thing platform – were able to benefit from shipped donations that might otherwise have been harder to access.
Helen Macfarlane from the Village Hall and Walled Garden Charity told us:
“Being at the far end of Cornwall, we often feel like the forgotten end of the line. Thank you, PDI, for the brilliant cleaning cloths! They will be very well used indeed.”
With the village hall preparing to reopen following accessibility improvements, the wipes will help volunteers complete a deep clean and welcome residents back to a refreshed community space.
Why this matters
For many charities, hygiene essentials are a constant – but often overlooked – operational cost. Donations like this one can free up valuable resources, allowing organisations to focus their funding on frontline support – whether that be family services, hospice care, or community wellbeing programmes.
For PDI International, whose mission centres on improving hygiene and preventing infection, supporting community organisations is a natural extension of its mission. By diverting useful products from potential waste and delivering them directly to charities that need them, this match demonstrates the practical, immediate impact that business-to-charity giving can achieve.
Sometimes making a difference doesn’t require grand gestures – just the right items reaching the right places, at the right time!