Our community investment
Investing in communities through the Zurich Community Trust (ZCT)
Through a range of partnerships, fundraising and volunteering programmes led by ZCT, we're helping to build a more inclusive and resilient society. Formed in 1973, ZCT is one of the longest-established corporate foundations in the UK. In that time we've awarded over £90 million to deserving causes across the UK.
We're proud to work with a huge variety of community partners. With funds, time and talent donated by Zurich employees, we address a diverse range of social issues to help bring about positive change. Every year we help to improve quality of life for more than 100,000 people.
- Employees are able to donate monthly through their salary and are also given the opportunity to raise funds through various fundraising activities.
- There are many ways employees are able to volunteer their time and skills. Our flagship volunteering programme, Challenge, brings together Zurich employees across the country to complete projects for local voluntary organisations or schools.
- Our strategic funding partnerships with organisations such as Dementia UK, Barnardo's, and Magic Breakfast help amplify the incredible work they already do and provide a variety of opportunities for employee engagement.
- Our education charity partner is Teach First and our objective, is to provide extra support to schools in order to increase social mobility for young people and help them achieve their aspirations.
Zurich's #My3Days policy allows all UK employees three days of leave each year for volunteering.
Measuring Zurich’s community investment impact
Zurich Insurance in the UK is a member of B4SI, an organisation which provides the leading standard for measuring community investment impact. Nearly half of Zurich UK's overall contribution to the community (49%) is the value of our business time volunteering, where our employees work in partnership with the voluntary sector to share their professional and practical skills.
15,000
volunteering hours donated
£2.35 million
of support to causes across the UK
330
challenge projects completed
55
new local partners
£363,000
raised through fundraising
About B4SI
B4SI stands for Business for Societal Impact. The B4SI model provides a consistent and credible approach to measuring community impact and enables companies to benchmark themselves against others. Prior to 2021, B4SI was known as LBG.
