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DHL UK FOUNDATION

Annual Review 2013

Welcome

Twenty five years ago, after the privatisation of the National Freight Corporation, the Foundation was

born. In 2000 it became the Exel Foundation, and was renamed the DHL UK Foundation in 2008.

Despite name changes, the focus has always been on helping children and young people fulfil their

potential.

A quarter of a century later this is still our prime objective. With the economy in the doldrums, and

young people under greater stress than ever before, many end up having little hope for their future.

They are leaving school without the skills or self-belief they need to make their way in the world.

We believe that with your help we can deliver a better future for these young people. It is fantastic that

in our anniversary year, the Foundation‟s contribution has been recognised by the Prime Minister,

through the Big Society Award. This award is an appreciation of the efforts of everyone who has taken

part in one of the Foundation‟s programmes.

We hope that it will spur more people on to look at how they might make a difference to the lives of

young people where they live and work.

John Allan, Chairman of Trustees

Helen Parker, Foundation Manager

A year at a glance

Boosting employability and widening horizons

• Eight Get intos completed by 83 young people,

with 60 going into employment with DHL

• 125 employees volunteered with The Prince‟s

Trust

• 43 Career Academy students attended a DHL

career day

• 280 young people attended Outward Bound,

supported by 30 DHL volunteer mentors

• £139,747 total funds to Outward Bound

Road safety

• 23,696 children received free Trucks & Child

Safety demonstrations

Mobilising employees

• £220,000 grants made through Transform It! to 17

projects

• 149 employees volunteered through Transform It!

• 839 Match It! grants made

• £745,311 donated by employees and Match It!

• 41,692 hours volunteered

Celebrating achievement

• One Big Society Award received

• Four new Heroes award categories introduced.

70 employees and groups entered

Boosting employability; widening

horizons

Working with The Prince‘s Trust,

Career Academies UK and the

Outward Bound Trust

The Prince‘s Trust

The Prince‟s Trust partnership continues from

strength to strength. During the past financial year

six Get into programmes were run in a three-way

partnership with The Prince‟s Trust and DHL.

These gave unemployed young people intensive

training in job skills, motivation and confidence,

aiming to break the cycle where young people

cannot secure work as they have no experience,

and cannot gain experience as they have no work.

The ultimate aim is to progress into employment.

Eighty three young people completed the

programmes, with approximately three quarters

going into work or further training. Ten more

courses are planned by the end of 2013/14.

Daniel Swift says his mum and dad have never

seen him happier. He‟d just had his benefits

sanctioned for 26 weeks, and was at rock bottom

when he saw the Get into programme advertised.

He applied for and completed the course, then

managed to secure a job at DHL Sainsbury‟s in

Stoke. He was over the moon! That was eight

months ago. It hasn‟t been easy though; he went

through a period of homelessness, but with the

support of friends and colleagues he is now out of

debt and looking forward to the future. “There are

so many opportunities to better myself,” he says.

He has gained so much from The Prince‟s Trust

that he is volunteering as a young ambassador to

spread the word of how they support young people.

Career Academies UK

Career Academies UK offers curriculum enrichment

to business students in years 12 and 13. It aims to

increase their aspirations and help them achieve

more. DHL employees have supported academies

around the UK with a focus on Luton, Nuneaton

and Feltham. DHL support students by offering

paid internships, and putting together facility visits

or career days. Thirteen employees have given

guru lectures, 11 currently sit on local advisory

boards and 18 act as partners in business

(mentors).

Following a 2013 career day attended by 43

students, participants commented on how useful

the CV and interview workshop was, believing it

would really help boost their employability. Sufian

Sadiq who heads up the Career Academy at Luton

remarked: “Sessions like that are priceless,

because hearing from actual employers carries

greater weight than me yelling from the front of a

class.”

The Outward Bound Trust

The outdoor challenge of Outward Bound

continues to push young people to their limit and

help them achieve more than they ever thought

possible. Whether it is working in a team,

overcoming personal fears or simply being away

from home for the first time, the week long

programme broadens horizons of young people

from across the UK.

“I learnt that if you don‟t try, you can‟t

succeed.” Callum, 14, Joseph Leckie Academy.

280 young people from disadvantaged

backgrounds received financial support from the

Foundation. To help them make the most of the

opportunity they were accompanied by 30 DHL

mentors. The volunteers acted as a role models

participating in the same tasks and challenges as

the young people.

David Pierpoint, volunteer mentor 2012

commented: “In the short time I spent at Aberdovey

it quickly became evident that Outward Bound can

make a real difference to young people‟s lives and

it was a privilege and pleasure to be personally

involved.”

Road safety

Keeping children safer on the road with

Trucks and Child Safety

Trucks and Child Safety

330 volunteers are trained to go into schools taking

a large vehicle to act as a memorable visual aid;

alerting 7 to 11-year-olds of the dangers of lorries

on the road.

Trucks and Child Safety is a national safety training

programme run by the Foundation and employees

of DHL. These practical and interactive

demonstrations bring home to the children the extra

dangers posed by lorries on the road and how they

can avoid becoming one of the 2,350 children killed

or seriously injured on the roads in the UK each

year (2012/13 figures).

The drivers are passionate about teaching the

children all about personal safety and what to do

around trucks to stay safer. As a Road Safety

Officer, I have no hesitation in recommending the

initiative to all children who are residing in areas

that have a high volume of trucks using local roads.

Lue Ellis, Road Safety Officer, Cheshire West and

Chester Council.

In the last academic year 23,696 children saw a

free demonstration.

Mobilising employees

Supporting local communities;

recognising employees

Transform It!

The Transform It! programme has been an

overwhelming success and is well established. In

the first year 17 projects were approved and

between them they have been awarded £220,000

in grants.

Transform It! grants are available to develop and

improve community facilities up and down the

country. Unlike other funding, Transform It! offers

money to DHL employees working with voluntary

organisations to initiate projects - 149 employees

volunteered in 2012/13.

One of the first schemes to benefit was the

Phoenix Youth Centre in Daventry. The centre

helps combat anti-social behaviour, but funding is

hugely difficult, especially securing money for

building work. So when they received a £15,000

Transform It! grant they could totally refit the

kitchen with the help of DHL volunteers. Now the

café is making a small profit and is set to become a

social enterprise. More importantly Elaine Bedford,

president says: “These young people have issues

in their lives. This makes them feel good about

themselves and some are hoping to go on to train

in catering, get experience and improve their lives.”

Match It!

Match It! also continues as a core programme

showing that if a cause is important to employees,

then the Foundation is there to support them.

Employees can apply to have both their fundraising

and volunteering activity boosted by the

Foundation. Naturally, some restrictions apply as to

the amount matched or which organisations can

benefit from matching, but these are clearly set out.

Registered charities and appropriately constituted

community groups received a total of £778,294 and

43,652 volunteer hours in 2012, from employees

and Match It! combined.

Community Heroes Awards

In recognition of the amazing volunteering and

fundraising carried out by employees, the

Community Heroes awards continued for their

fourth year. People and groups working behind the

scenes were invited to apply and given cash

awards to donate to their partner organisation in

recognition of their previously unsung work.

Four new awards were added in 2013 and the

Foundation worked more closely with the UK

business divisions to ensure the awards recognise

the range of diverse projects supported by

employees.

Glenda Spencer, Ocean Freight Manager Global

Forwarding, won 'Truly Spectacular', one of the

new awards. It was open to individuals or groups

engaged in deserving of recognition but who did

not fall into other categories.

Community Heroes Awards Cont.

Glenda is passionate about disability. She has

volunteered at Trinity, a special needs school in

Dagenham, for the past 16 years and her

involvement is a personal one. Her first child had

Muscular Dystrophy and there was no suitable

school in the local borough. Glenda campaigned

tirelessly to provide better facilities and services to

meet the needs of disabled children.

Now she has set up links with Kingston special

school in St Vincent, West Indies. Glenda was

appalled to learn that many disabled children are

rejected at birth, sent into institutions or kept within

the four walls of their homes. There is little

mainstream dedicated provision; no trained

teachers and not much specialist equipment.

Glenda began by working with Trinity School to

sponsor a teacher to come to the UK for training.

Trinity had equipment no longer in use such as

wheelchairs, sports equipment and soft mats, along

with books. Putting her DHL hat on Glenda

arranged a charity container movement, which lead

to a meeting with the deputy prime minister of St

Vincent, where she secured a duty exemption

certificate for charitable goods being imported into

St Vincent for Special Needs Education purposes.

Glenda's son died aged 16 and her volunteering

became the 'rock' she needed to carry on.

“I didn‟t look for recognition, but having received it I

am reminded about what I do and why I do it. My

son is alive in everything I do,” said Glenda. “The

work of the Foundation is one of the aspects which

makes me very proud to work for DHL.”

The Foundation has recently been named as one of

the latest winners of a Big Society Award for

encouraging and enabling people to play a more

active part in society.

The awards were set up by the Prime Minister, to

acknowledge individuals and organisations across

the UK that demonstrates the Big Society in their

work or activities.

On making the award for encouraging and enabling

people to play a more active part in society, Prime

Minister David Cameron said: “The DHL UK

Foundation has made a huge difference to the lives

of disadvantaged children across the UK. It has an

innovative and compassionate approach to ensuring

young people achieve their full potential.

“This is a fantastic example of an organisation that

really is part of the Big Society, working in

partnership with charities and volunteers, focused

on improving the lives of those they support. This

award recognises their commitment and

achievements and I hope they continue to grow and

reach even more people.”

Financial summary

Income 2012/13 2011/12

£ £

Voluntary income 646,527 638,508

General donations 242 290

Donations from DHL 379,544 379,544

Gift in kind from DHL* 266,741 258,674

Investment income 1,067,334 1,049,614

Total income 1,713,861 1,688,122

*The above gift in kind represents the donation of employee services made in the year from DHL to the Foundation‟s programmes and activities

Expenditure 2012/13 2011/12

£ £

Cost of generating voluntary income 16,653 15,356

Grants and donations payable 1,133,822 1,056,838

Governance costs 101,133 106,955

Other charitable activities 257,978 305,839

Total resources expended 1,634,243 1,601,368

End of year position

Net income for year 2012/13 2011/12

79,618 86,754

Fund balances 2012/13 2011/12

Endowment Fund £26,537,907 £24,157,456

Tsunami Fund £3,138 £14,148

Unrestricted Fund £213,785 £147,336

The full financial statements can be found on the Charity Commission‟s website (www.charity-

commission.gov.uk).

The future

Moving closer to the DHL

business, while retaining

independence

Though the work of the Foundation

has proven results and received

external praise, it is not time to

rest. In the next financial year we

will develop established

programmes, scrutinise any that

are not delivering their full potential

and move closer to the business,

while retaining our independence.

Transform It! and Match It! will

continue, with £235,000 set aside

for further Transform It! grants, and

a focus on ensuring committed

projects come to life.

Building on the success of the

current partnership with Outward

Bound, we hope to extend

volunteering opportunities to more

employees. Two pilot programmes

are being developed, linking

outdoor learning with employability

skills.

Look into Logistics will enable 24

year 10/11 students to realise their

full potential at school, in their

wider communities and in the

future workplace. Through a

structured programme of DHL

employee mentoring and a

challenging Outward Bound

residential course, students will

acquire the skills, attitudes and

behaviours valued by future

employers.

A further programme will invest in

100 year 7 students who will

develop communication,

leadership and team working skills

with the support of 10 DHL

mentors. The project aims to

create a platform for on-going „in-

school‟ employee mentoring

opportunities, as a follow on to the

Outward Bound intervention,

enabling a deeper impact on a

whole school community over

time.

The Prince's Trust is looking to

double the number of young

people it supports through the Get

into logistics programme. The

Foundation is working with Aspire,

the career foundation of the

Chartered Institute of Logistics and

Transport, and the Freight

Transport Association, to galvanise

the logistics industry into action.

To help advise the Trustees and

guide them on the problems faced

by young people, we aim to recruit

a young trustee to the board. This

will help shape the programmes

and activities that would engage

younger people through the

Foundation‟s work.

Trustees

John Allan CBE (Chairman)

Sharon Davies

Ralf Dürrwang

Peter Grant

Nigel Morecroft

Tim Slater

Bob Stringer

Richard Turner OBE

Company secretary

Exel Secretarial Services Limited

Registered office

Ocean House

The Ring

Bracknell

RG12 1AN

Company registration

Number 2223373 (England and

Wales)

Charity registration

Number 327880

Auditors

Buzzacott LLP

130 Wood Street

London

EC2V 6DL

Bankers

National Westminster Bank plc

81 High Street

Bedford

MK40 1YN

Investment managers

Sarasin & Partners LLP

Juxon House

100 St Paul‟s Churchyard

London

EC4M 8BU

Solicitors

Farrer and Co

66 Lincoln‟s Inn Fields

London

WC2A 3LH

www.dhlukfoundation.org

helpline: 01285 841 914

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