Everyone who works for M&G is encouraged to play their part in helping to create the right climate for enterprise, prosperity and the improved well-being of the community as a whole. It remains important to us as an organisation that we continue to support charitable and community activities in our own locale.
In 2007, £220,000 was donated to UK registered charities and organisations involved in community activities. These activities fell within education, arts, heritage, social and welfare, children and youth, medical and the environment. Staff are very much supported in charitable activities and the above sum included donations to UK registered charities which were:
Although generally donations were not made to large national charities, exceptions were made where staff had a personal commitment to a national charity or where donations could be applied to branches of national charities which were located in M&G’s area of operations.
Over 94 charities and 25 educational establishments received our donations in 2007.