Supporting the community

We support the Hawk Conservancy Trust to rescue, rehabilitate and release birds of prey in the UK and in South Africa through poison response training and provision of equipment, along with inspiring future generations of conservationists through school programmes. 

In partnership with the Canal & River Trust, we've adopted a one-mile stretch of Woodlesford Lock in Leeds, which sees our colleagues in Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield and Manchester helping to maintain ad keep the lock healthy.

For over three years, our people have supported We Speak, an organisation helping young people from under-represented backgrounds to improve their speaking confidence. Members of our Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guildford, Leeds, Liverpool, London and Manchester teams have joined spent more than 224 hours supporting students with their speaking skills. 

Through Bookmark Reading, a national charity that helps children aged 5 to 9 who struggle with their reading, we're helping them gain essential skills by matching pupils with a corporate reading coach to help them practice their reading twice a week for six weeks. 

Our Edinburgh office supports the homelessness charity Fresh Start, which helps people who have experienced homelessness to establish themselves in their new homes. Each year, the charity helps thousands of new tenants, ranging from families to individuals, to make a home for themselves.

We partner with Future Frontiers to deliver a four-week career coaching programmes for 18 pupils in year 10 at Morpeth School - a community school based in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which has some of the highest poverty and unemployment rates in the city.

A number of our staff have volunteered many hours of specialist advice to entrepreneurs looking to start their own social enterprise businesses with seed funding from the Bromley by Bow Centre. 

Through Routes, a number of our staff have volunteered hundreds of hours to mentor women from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds to grow in confidence, build relationships and access opportunities.

Since 2007 we've supported the Starfish Greathearts Foundation in their work with local community groups in South Africa to develop their capacity to deliver professional and sustainable services to children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS.