Community Trust News
I'd like to take this opportunity to bring you our first e-newsletter, covering some of the Trust's activities this year to date.
It's our way to thank all our supporters whose enthusiasm for our work is a constant inspiration, as well as celebrating the equally inspiring variety of ways in which Zurich staff and other volunteers support our programmes and the wider community.
Happy reading..
Pam Webb
Head of Zurich Community Trust Team
A call in time
No time to talk to Dad? How Help the Aged – one of the Trust’s key partners - revealed that one in four - that’s 3 million - adults are too busy to keep in touch with their older fathers. » more
India programme welcomes two new partners
This year the Trust is proud to extend its India programme and welcome on board two new partners - MAYA (The Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness and APSA (The Association for the Promotion of Social Action). » more
Congratulations all round!
Business in the Community (BITC) has just launched a new CommunityMark – and we’re proud to say that Zurich is one of just 13 large UK-based businesses to achieve it. In the words of BITC, Zurich now joins "an elite group of CommunityMark pioneers – recognised for your impressive commitment to investing in your communities." It’s a standard that sets the bar high enough to give most business leaders vertigo…. » more
Zurich Cares is the Trust's dynamic employee involvement programme, supporting Zurich staff in their fundraising, volunteering and payroll giving.
Zurich staff get up and go!
From cake bakes and parachute jumps, to buying a monthly lottery ticket, the ways in which people raise funds for Zurich Cares is endlessly inventive! The target this year? To raise a total of £500,000. How Zurich is rolling up its sleeves and tackling the target.... in style. » more
On our doorstep - Local grant giving
You may already sponsor a fundraiser but where does the money raised for Zurich Cares actually go? » more
Don’t keep your skills to yourself – share them.
Tony Martin, Zurich Cares’ UK Volunteering Manager, is a Man on a Mission to develop the business skillshares programme. So what’s it all about? » more
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