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Group Head Office

Contents

About This Report

HSE Performance

Social Performance

Economic Performance

Looking Ahead

In our small head office the focus of our community involvement has revolved around the establishment of an ongoing relationship with Connection at St Martins. This organisation provides support to young homeless in the central London area.

Individuals at the Group Head Office have committed to providing interview training and practice in addition to mentoring for young people who are working towards taking up employment.

This has taken the form of developing and running training sessions for groups of people as part of a formal course and providing a work placement for individuals who have been through a competitive interview process. This enables the individuals to experience the interview process, apply their learning and receive useful feedback and tips that they can use in real life work situations. We are now exploring further ways where we can help the Connection in their work

Early in 2008, we started working with Magic Taxi, an independent charitable organisation responsible for operating an internet search engine. In April we launched the scheme as follows:

Link installed to the Magic Taxi search engine on the Life Intranet homepage.
Every time someone at our group head office uses the search engine, a contribution is made to our nominated charities.
The three charities chosen are:

Connection at St Martins – A charity supporting the homeless in our area which we have helped in the past. They focus on young people and their base is just around the corner from us off the Strand.
Friends of St Thomas’s Hospital – This is our local hospital and this charity helps patients in need of support.
Help the Aged – A national charity supporting elderly people in need, a section of the population very relevant to our products.

A number of employees also commit to fund raising activities for charities of their choice, such as sponsored running in the London Marathon. To encourage this activity, the company has a policy of matching sponsorship amounts that these individuals have raised themselves.

Community Relationships