Pal System Group Supports Over 50 Million Yen in Grants Across 11 Systems for Welfare, Environment, and Community Development

In fiscal year 2025, the Pal System Group provided grants totaling 50,535,737 yen to 199 organizations working to solve regional social issues. Amidst unstable global affairs and ongoing domestic price hikes impacting daily life, we offer financial support to various organizations tackling diverse regional challenges. Through collaboration with grant recipients, we aim to expand the role of consumer cooperatives in local communities.

Supporting Grassroots Activities with Consumers

In fiscal year 2025, 199 organizations received grants totaling 50,535,737 yen through 11 grant systems operated by 9 group organizations. The grant funds are managed using surplus from businesses such as home delivery, mutual aid, and welfare services of each organization, connecting consumer purchasing behavior to regional support.

The 7 Pal System cooperatives support a wide range of citizen activities within the regions where they operate through their grant systems. Pal System Mutual Aid supports activities for the needy by various regional organizations, as well as educational, welfare, and health maintenance activities by consumers. Pal System Federation supports community development activities by suppliers and production areas across the country.

By leveraging the collaborative strength of cooperatives and regional organizations, we will support activities that aim to create communities where everyone can live comfortably through human connections, together with our consumers.

Grant Names by Organization

Number of Grant Recipients (Total Grant Amount)

Pal System Tokyo "Citizen Activity Grant Fund"

11 organizations (4,910,267 yen)

Pal System Tokyo "Earthquake Reconstruction Support Fund Pal Mirai Hana Fund"

5 organizations (1,495,970 yen)

Pal System Kanagawa "Citizen Activity Support Fund"

16 organizations (4,000,000 yen)

Pal System Chiba "Community Activity Grant Fund"

11 organizations (2,955,718 yen)

Pal System Saitama "Citizen Activity Support Fund"

16 organizations (4,000,000 yen)

Pal System Ibaraki Tochigi "Living Activity Grant Fund"

25 organizations (3,840,000 yen)

Pal System Yamanashi Nagano "Citizen Activity Grant Fund"

11 organizations (1,875,618 yen)

Pal System Gunma "Citizen Activity Grant System"

6 organizations (1,480,000 yen)

Pal System Mutual Aid "Welfare and Mutual Aid Grant"

74 organizations (6,938,164 yen)

Pal System Mutual Aid "Support Fund"

16 organizations (10,000,000 yen)

Pal System Federation "Community Development Fund"

8 organizations (9,040,000 yen)

Total

199 organizations (50,535,737 yen)

Examples of Grant Recipient Activities (Grants awarded in FY2024, utilized in FY2025 projects)

"Taiki Coop Farm Co., Ltd." (Grant recipient of Pal System Federation's "Community Development Fund")

Taiki Coop Farm Co., Ltd. (Gojo City, Nara Prefecture; President and Representative Director: Munetaka Wada), a producer group with over 30 years of history as a direct-trade partner of Pal System, cultivates persimmons and plums on the border of Wakayama and Nara prefectures. They are committed to continuing environmentally friendly agriculture in the mountainous areas of the Kii Peninsula with the next generation of producers, and are also focusing on processing and selling agricultural products such as their long-selling "Nanko Umeboshi (Direct Trade)."

Their main product, plums, has been affected by reduced yields due to recent abnormal weather conditions, including warm winters. To expand and streamline the production of dried daikon radishes as a main product to replace plums, grant funds were used to purchase equipment and materials for drying facilities. This is a production area where further promotion of regional agricultural product utilization and strengthened collaboration are expected.

Challenging Regional "Tradition" ~ Grant Report from Taiki Coop Farm Mihama Tenchi Farm for the "Community Development Fund"

Pal System will continue to strengthen collaboration with regional organizations, producers, and suppliers, aiming to build a sustainable society where everyone can thrive.

Pal System Consumers' Cooperative Federation

Location: Rakus East Shinjuku, 2-2-6 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Chairman: Atsuyuki Shibuzawa Total business sales of 12 member cooperatives and unified business system members: 268.96 billion yen / Total number of members: 1.77 million (as of the end of March 2026) Member Cooperatives: Pal System Tokyo, Pal System Kanagawa, Pal System Chiba, Pal System Saitama, Pal System Ibaraki Tochigi, Pal System Yamanashi Nagano, Pal System Gunma, Pal System Fukushima, Pal System Shizuoka, Pal System Niigata Tokimeki, Pal System Mutual Aid, Ai Coop Miyagi HP: https://www.pal-system.co.jp/