Outgoing GroceryAid Director General, Gillian Barker, has been awarded the 2016 IGD Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was presented last week at the annual IGD awards in London, where Gillian was recognised by a select group of judges from across the grocery industry for her contribution to the sector.
Gillian has spent her entire career in the industry, from her early beginning working as a Saturday girl in a local corner shop through her time at Sainsbury’s and then at Safeway before joining the charity. Gillian has been at GroceryAid for over 14 years and will be retiring at the end of November 2016. In this time, the charity has grown from a benevolent fund with a fundraising income of £1.4m and 1,100 beneficiaries to an organisation with a fundraising income in excess of £4.5m that supports more than 11,000 current and former industry associates.
