We actively encourage, empower and support everyone in our team to use our skills to make a difference to the communities in which we live and work.
We support employee-volunteering charity
York Cares with pro bono media relations. As well as rolling up our sleeves for Big Community Challenges in and around York, some of our team spend lunchtimes supporting primary school children through the York Cares Right to Read programme, designed to raise literacy standards.
In 2018, our 30th anniversary year, we donated 30 hours to
York Mind, promoting the
York Walls Walk, which raised more than £1000 as part of Mental Health Awareness Week.
Each year everyone in our team has the opportunity to nominate a local charity to receive a donation from the company, in lieu of Christmas cards and client gifts.
Here's a list of the charities we've supported over our 30-year history:
1989 Deep core well, Bhola Island, Bangladesh
1990 Tapped water system, Nepal
1991 Children in Care, Christmas party, South Leeds
1992 Emergency aid to Somalia
1993 The Candlelighters children’s charity
1994 Braille Christmas letters to children, R.N.I.B
1995 VSO volunteer for a year in Indonesia
1996 Lidgett Grove special school and food parcels to the homeless in York
1997 York Against Cancer and a children's Christmas party at York Women’s Aid Refuge
1998 VSO volunteer teacher for a year in Pakistan
1999 The Candlelighter’s Trust
2000 Woodlands Respite Care Centre
2001 Kikamoee Primary School, Mombasa, Kenya and Community Centre, Pune, India
2002 York Nightstop, charity for homeless young people
2003 Urological Reconstruction Fund and aid for Romanian Children Charitable Trust
2004 The Cookridge Cancer Care Centre and Caroline’s Rainbow Foundation for backpackers
2005 North Yorkshire Music Therapy Centre
2006 When You Wish Upon A Star, supporting children with life threatening or terminal illnesses
2007 Multiple Sclerosis Society York and District branch
2008 Stroke Association
2009 York Against Cancer
2010 Special Care Baby Unit at York Hospital
2011 Home Start York
2012 Inspired Youth
2013 Speakability
2014 York Mind
2015 Ordnance Lane Hostel
2016 SASH
2017 York Foodbank