Corporate Sustainability Report - Flipbook - Page 33
Sustainability Report
nominate other charities for 昀椀nancial grants
through The Access Foundation which is
managed separately. In FY25 72 employeerecommended grants were made, up on the
54 employee-recommended grants made
in FY24. See page 45 for more detail on our
community initiatives.
Environmental stewardship
Giving back
We encourage all Access employees to get
involved in meaningful, socially responsible
initiatives, which bene昀椀t our communities and
also strengthen collaboration, team spirit, and
skill development.
Every year we invite our employees to suggest
the good causes they would most like Access
to organise our charitable e昀昀orts around
for the year, and from these suggestions a
selection of charities are proposed back to
them. Employees then vote on their favourites,
and a 昀椀nal set of nine charities are selected
for the year, each of which then receives both
a substantial 昀椀nancial grant and signi昀椀cant
employee volunteering time from Access,
galvanised through our 150 Giving Back
Champions around the world.
This year the nine charities employees selected
were: Beyond Blue, Australia; the Alzheimer
Society of Ireland; SUKA Society, Malaysia;
Miety, New Zealand; United Way, Romania; the
Ceylon School for the Deaf and Blind, Sri Lanka,
the National Organization for Rare Disorders
(NORD), Young Lives vs Cancer, United
Kingdom; United States; and the Blue Dragon
Children’s Foundation, Vietnam; and between
them we’re delighted that they represented a
broad coverage of important causes.
In FY24 £1.3m was donated via employee
fundraising, Access matching and The Access
Foundation grants to Charities of the Year)
along with 7,618 volunteering hours delivered.
Naturally our goal was to surpass these
numbers in FY25 and we’re pleased to report
that was indeed the case with ultimately
£1.55m donated and 10,405 volunteering hours
delivered.
Beyond this core Giving Back programme,
employees also have the opportunity to
We also encourage our people to engage
in our environmental sustainability e昀昀orts
as well as develop good habits themselves.
More detail about these e昀昀orts and activities
are provided under our section on the
environment (see pages 21 – 23).
Engage you KPIs
•
+54 eNPS for wellbeing (in top 25% of
technology cohort benchmark)
•
+70 eNPS for diversity and inclusion (in top
5% technology cohort benchmark)
•
£1.55m donations for the ten selected
charities
•
10,405 giving back hours delivered in FY25
•
+79 eNPS for Access as a company giving
back to communities and supporting
charities
•
+61 eNPS for fostering environmentally
friendly practices
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