BAE Systems supports charities, education activities and communities close to our facilities worldwide.
BAE Systems supports charities, education activities and communities close to our facilities worldwide.
In 2005, our total community investment was £10.5 million. This figure includes cash and in kind donations to charity as well as our direct support for education. Charity Challenge, our Company-wide fundraising and volunteering programme, raised £2.7 million from employee fundraising and reported over 4,200 volunteer days for charities worldwide.
In 2005 we joined the London Benchmarking Group (LBG), which comprises 100 leading UK-based companies committed to rigorous evaluation of their community programmes.
Click here to see a detailed breakdown of our giving in line with the LBG methodology.
We focus our support at corporate level on charities working in the areas of youth programmes, medical research and armed services. Our businesses and sites also make donations to charities in their local community.
We support several charities through our Relationship Charity Programme, giving £100,000 to each over three years. This guaranteed sum helps the charity to plan ahead and commit to a specific project. The charities we currently support in this way are: Leukaemia Research, St John Ambulance, the No Way Trust, Age Concern, and the US Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
