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NOTES TO EDITORS
In four years, 45 organisations have achieved the standard to become exemplars of community investment. Collectively, CommunityMark companies have invested £746,819,977 million in their communities through corporate giving and fundraising, pro bono and employee volunteering time, in-kind support and commercial initiatives. They have encouraged their employees to volunteer their time amounting to £39.5 million of employee time, supported over 6.5 million school children in over 52,000 schools and worked with almost 300 community organisations.
About Zurich
Zurich fully embraces Corporate Responsibility and understands the need to set and maintain high standards of integrity towards our customers, employees, local communities, society and the environment. In the UK, Zurich was one of the first recipients of the Business in the Community developed CommunityMark. The Zurich Community Trust, a registered charity funded by pre-tax profits and donations from Zurich’s staff, provides an umbrella for all Zurich’s community involvement in the UK. Since it was set up in 1973 over £60 million has been donated to local communities in the UK and overseas.
Further information about Zurich’s efforts in corporate responsibility is available at: http://www.zurich.co.uk/home/aboutus/ourcorporateresponsibility/ourcorporateresponsibility.htm.
About CommunityMark
1. CommunityMark is the UK’s only national standard that publicly recognises excellence in community investment, developed by Business in the Community (BITC)
2. The Impact of all CommunityMark companies in the past four years amounts to:
a. Collectively invested £746,819,977 million in their communities
b. Engaged almost 13% of their employees, investing over £39.5 million of employee time
c. Worked with almost 300 community partners
d. Supported over 6.5 million school children in over 52,000 schools
3. Businesses that achieve the CommunityMark have effectively integrated strategic community investment throughout their organisation according to five principles
4. Who else has the CommunityMark?
38 companies currently hold the CommunityMark:
Anglo American, Axis Europe, Barclays, Boots UK, Brentford Football Club, BSkyB, Cadbury, Capital Shopping Centres Group PLC, Contract Scotland, Deloitte, E.ON UK, East Midlands Airport, EDF Energy, Ernst & Young, Heart of Midlothian Football Club, Heineken UK, Hogan Lovells, Jaguar Land Rover, John Laing, KPMG, Lend Lease, Linklaters, Liverpool Football Club, Lloyds Banking Group, LSI Architects, Manchester Airport, Marks and Spencer, Microsoft (UK), The Midcounties Co-operative Society, Nationwide Building Society, Octink, PwC, Prudential UK & Europe, RWE npower, Sainsbury’s, TD Direct Investing, Thinktastic, Zurich Financial Services
Companies who have renewed and retained the CommunityMark status include:
1. Axis Europe
2. Barclays PLC
3. Contract Scotland
4. Deloitte LLP
5. Ernst & Young LLP
6. Heart of Midlothian Football Club
7. KPMG UK LLP
8. Marks & Spencer
9. PwC
10. RWE npower
11. J Sainsbury Ltd
12. Thinktastic
13. Zurich Financial Services Ltd
For more information on Business in the Community please visit their website.
