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Strategic Report
COMMITMENT 4
We give
back
Corporate Governance
Accounts
Engaging with communities
Marie Curie charity partnership
Supporting and working with our local
communities has been at the core of our business
since we were first established in 1875.
Barr Soft Drinks continued to support Marie Curie
as our national charity partner during the year
and has donated £150,000 over our three-year
partnership. Marie Curie is the UK’s largest
end-of-life charity and provides support for
individuals and their families experiencing
terminal illness.
We support a range of charities and community
groups across the UK, from local clubs and
charity fundraisers to large charities helping
people on a national scale. We help in various
ways, including financially, through donations, or
on a practical level with employee volunteering.
Employee volunteering
Our employees are encouraged to take part
in volunteering activities, giving something back
to local communities. This year saw employees
volunteering for a range of deserving causes,
including Marie Curie, The Drinks Trust, Woodlarks
Accessible Campsite, Women’s Aid, The Scottish
Wildlife Trust and Children’s Hearing Scotland.
Giving back
Good Neighbour
Community Giving Fund
In addition to our partnership with Marie Curie,
we have launched our Good Neighbour
Community Giving Fund, through which employees
can nominate charitable organisations local to our
sites across the UK. These charities will receive a
split of an additional £20,000 each year, and we
aim to support a range of organisations across
areas of health and wellbeing, environment and
sustainability, and social inequality.
The corporate donation has been supplemented
by additional, employee-led fundraising
opportunities and individual employee
challenges such as trekking to Everest Base
Camp. In the spirit of camaraderie, four
employees from across the business braved
“Zipslide the Clyde” – ziplining 100ft over the
River Clyde in Glasgow, and raising £3,000
in sponsorship.
Charity Champions
Employees from across the business are
encouraged to join the planning and
implementation of our fundraising, particularly
as ‘Charity Champions’. Our partner charities
are chosen through a Company-wide employee
vote and we aim to work with charities that
reflect the values and concerns of our teams.
Wildflower garden
Our colleagues at FUNKIN planted wildflowers
near our Camden site, to improve local
biodiversity and support pollinators. As we
expand our No Time To Waste environmental
sustainability workstreams to include naturerelated targets and disclosures, charity action like
this will complement our corporate environmental
strategy which is ingrained in our business activity.
We’ve also aligned our employee wellbeing
strategy with our charitable activity this year,
with representatives from Scottish testicular
cancer charity Cahonas giving a talk at our
Cumbernauld site. The event succeeded in
spreading information on the symptoms and
reducing the stigma associated with this disease.
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