We have over 800 people working for us across the country. By using their enthusiasm, energy and ideas, we’ve made a real impact on the communities we work within.
We belong to Business in the Community which provides us with access to structured volunteer programmes such as early years reading schemes. We are also actively involved with a number of Community Foundations through their Grassroots Challenge Schemes. In 2009 we committed £25,000 which will be match funded by Government to enable the Community Foundations to deliver support to a range of local groups.
Each office also has it’s own community projects. Here’s a brief overview of some the one’s we’ve worked on:
- Mentoring black and ethnic minority students in schools and universities in London and Birmingham
- We worked with Wellchild to provide a bedroom makeover for Adam who suffers from Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy and has to spend most of his time in bed. We also decorated a charity shop for the Big C
- Exercising our green fingers to provide some TLC to the Age UK day centre in Norwich.
- Donating suits to homeless people seeking jobs in Birmingham and Manchester
- To encourage our staff to get involved, we operate a Give A Day scheme. If our people want to support a project, we don’t make them take the time off as holiday or make up the time. We give it to them.