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When the Midcounties Cooperative chose Women’s Aidas their two-year charity partner, they quickly realised
that this was more than just fundraising. It was achance to change behaviour and raise awareness of
domestic violence. By the end of those two years, notonly had they raised £345,000, but they had put in over22,000 hours of volunteering, collected 24,000 petitionsignatures, created a schools toolkit and changed their
own policies to reflect what they’d learned.
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Lindum Group’s focus is on the future prosperity of thecommunities where they work, especially on educating
young people. Many of their employees are schoolgovernors who use construction industry know-how tosupport education professionals. The company itselfis also closely engaged with local schools, offering 48weeks’-worth of work experience placements and a
locally-recruited apprenticeship scheme.
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Randstad is a global business, so it makes sense forthem to partner with VSO to give something back
worldwide. All their employees get the chance to usetheir skills to combat poverty in a developing country,with placements of 4 weeks to 9 months, working forlocal salary with local partners. By providing skills and
expertise instead of goods or money, they combatthe causes of poverty, not its symptoms.
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The Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation makesa point of supporting charities that struggle to find
the limelight. To keep staff personally involved, theycreated the 10% pot, which ring-fences that proportion
of funds raised to go to local charities nominatedby store teams. This year, that will mean over £50,000
goes to more than 270 small and local charities.
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Lexington Catering try to Give Something Back onvarious levels. Recognising their global responsibilities,
they took all their staff to a landfill site for an eye-opening reminder of their environmental impact. On a national level, they’re great supporters of Great Ormond Street Hospital School. Their Chief Director,
Rob Kirby, wrote a fundraising recipe book. And locally, they adopted a school near where the company first started – renovating its allotment, taking the children
on farm visits and teaching kids to cook.
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The Clinton Devon Estates have their own patch ofhistory to preserve for the world: 3,000 acres of Triassic
Pebble-bed Heath! It’s a ‘Site of Special ScientificInterest’ that carries responsibilities for protection and
conservation. Thanks to the Estates’ stewardship,50,000 visitors a year get to enjoy this 240 million year old landscape. Lucky local schoolchildren even get tomeet the local prehistoric monster, Rhynchosaurus!
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Every year, Baker & McKenzie LLP run a PRIMEwork experience week, giving over 20 students from
less-privileged backgrounds a taste of life in a law firmusing workshops, projects and observation. It also
includes a formal dinner to allow both social interactionand a chance to practice what might be unfamiliar
etiquette. Every student has a mentor, and a key clientalso gets involved. The highlight of the week
in an ‘Apprentice’-style challenge with apresentation at the client’s HQ.
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Changing Lives operate their regional‘Fareshare’ programme, distributing high-quality,usable food to voluntary groups and food banks
instead of it going to landfill. In just six months, theyserved 67 different projects, distributing almost 200
tonnes of food to over 2,000 people. The volunteeringopportunities involved have been valuable too,
especially for people interested in catering, retail orwarehouse management work.
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Feedback from ITC staff suggested they wanted moreUK charity involvement. Following an employee vote,
they teamed up with a national charity, MacmillanCancer Support and local respite home, Claire
House. A team of volunteers delivers a programme offundraising activities from climbing Snowdon to
bake-offs and Movember sponsorship. Theycommitted to raising £1000 for each charity by the
year’s end – a target they’ve comfortably surpassed.
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Coast & Country Housing combined charity with amajor social event by holding a charity football matchat Redcar Town FC’s ground. The trades’ team playedthe office staff and won 2-0… but more importantly,
they raised money for company charities and the localfood bank. The game was such a success that more
are already being planned – giving the officeteam a chance for revenge…
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by the bookFor Global Reach Partners, giving money wasn’t
enough. They signed up with ‘Get London Reading’,paid for volunteers to be trained, and got stuck in,
sending 8 volunteers to read to underprivileged kidsin hackney. To involve everyone at the company,they invited the children to a boardroom lunch
and took them to the Bank of England Museum.
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CHS Group Community Investment are bankers– Time-bankers. ‘Timebanking’ is a volunteer skills
exchange that allows people to swap skills andservices. This could be ironing, giving IT advice or
just visiting and listening. Helping people counts as a deposit; asking for help is a withdrawal. CHS works hard to promote the scheme in Cambridgeshire and
encourages all its employees to participate.
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to the jungleOvo takes sustainability very seriously. For every
customer that signs up, they commit to protect anacre of rainforest. So far, that’s 70,000 acres protected,
keeping 18.2 million tonnes of CO2 out of theatmosphere. It’s good for the Peruvian Amazon forest,
for the tribes who live in it, for the wildlife itshelters – and for the whole planet.
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Hilti Group gives 1% of its net income every yearto a charitable foundation that sets clear priorities.
It focuses on Affordable Housing, CommunityDevelopment, Culture, Disaster Relief and Education
Worldwide. It also runs a Community Cooperativethat aims to foster skills and employment in local
communities; in the UK, it does valuablework in literacy and numeracy.
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Giving Something Backbzzzzzzzz…St Ermin’s hotel is hospitable to more than just itsguests. They’ve’ worked hard to create a home for local wildlife: birds, squirrels – and especially bees. Three custom-built hives are home to over 200,000
(famously good-natured, fortunately…) Buckfast honeybees. In summer, they hold beekeeping classes open to local residents, guests and staff, doing their
part to encourage this vital little industry.
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