7-Eleven Canada Receives Impact Award

7-Eleven Canada is a proud recipient of the 2025 Convenience Store News Canada Impact Award for Community Service & Local Impact. These awards recognize organizations that are making a meaningful difference in a range of areas from helping the planet to supporting employees and communities. We are thrilled to be recognized for our community impact work.

WHY DO WE DO COMMUNITY SERVICE?

7-Eleven Canada strives to positively impact our communities. We are more than just a store, but represent the qualities of a good neighbour – we are accessible, supportive, reliable and welcoming to all.

Our employees are dedicated to serving customer needs, and every day – in ways large and small – connections are made in 7-Eleven stores.

7-Eleven Canada’s current community strategy has us partnered with national charities that provide local impact to the communities in which we operate: Food Banks Canada and most recently added in 2025, Children’s Miracle Network.

RECENT EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK:

Annual Slurpee Event: In our stores we hold Slurpee Name Your Price Day each fall and customers get to choose what they pay for a large Slurpee drink, 100% of those proceeds go to Food Banks Canada, which then distributes them throughout local food banks in Canada. In 2024 the one-day event raised over $57 000 for Food Banks Canada which helped the food bank purchase 114 000 meals. We look forward to surpassing the 2024 donation with an even more successful event in 2025 on September 18th.

Volunteerism: So far in 2025 we had held two employee volunteer events with Food Banks Canada. In April a team from our Surrey Support Centre office spent the morning handing out food items at the Surrey Food Bank, and in May a team in Ontario participated in the After the Bell Packing event.The After The Bell program provides food packs to children, throughout the summer months, who otherwise largely rely on school programs for meals and snacks. 

This year 215 000 packs will be distributed. Our team prepared 560 packs in just 1.5 hours!

Store Level Activations: Our Store Leaders are passionate about contributing to their communities and look for innovative ways to connect with their customers while giving back. One recent example is our Orangeville store where one of our regular customers built a decorative wooden house to be raffled off – any customer who choose to purchase a cookie in support of the Orangeville Food Bank would get entered in the draw for the miniature house and a cookie would be donated to the food bank. We were able to donate 1000 cookies with this initiative!

In all 7-Eleven Canada stores we also run a program allowing customers to choose to round up their total to the next dollar and all proceeds go to either Food Banks Canada to be distributed to local food banks or Children’s Hospital Foundations through Children’s Miracle Network. As of July 31st, 2025, our customers have donated over $200,000 through this program.