Commitment to our communities
Our community initiatives are central to the groups’ values of making an unselfish contribution to society, nurturing an entrepreneurial spirit, valuing diversity and respecting others, which all underpin Investec’s aim of being a responsible corporate citizen.
Our approach to community initiatives
In line with our vision to create sustained long-term wealth, we need a thriving economy with active economic participants. To become economically active, people need to be educated and skilled in order to be employed or create employment themselves as entrepreneurs. Those professionals and entrepreneurs become our clients and staff, and partner with us to create more wealth. In this way, we can address financial inclusion, creating active economic participants and engaging with communities in a meaningful way.
1.5%
group community spend as a % of operating profit (target >1.0%)
Impact priorities
- Education and learnerships (aligned to priority SDG 4: quality education)
- Entrepreneurship and job creation (aligned to priority SDG 8: decent work and economic growth)
- Environment and other philanthropy (aligned to priority SDG 6, SDG 7, SDG 9 and SDG 11).
Spent £9.9mn on community initiatives
49%
education and learnerships
30%
entrepreneurship and job creation
21%
environment and other philanthropy
