Our community programme is about giving something back by sharing our skills, time and talent. We aim to tackle current UK issues; maximise our impact for our most significant community stakeholders; use our extensive networks for the mutual benefit of our community partners and our people; and apply our unique impact measurement skills to our community work. We offer a variety of ways to contribute, so that as many of our people as possible can participate in the opportunities available.
As a professional services firm with offices across the UK, we have a responsibility to many stakeholders, including the local communities in which we operate. We aim to empower communities by solving important problems and building trust in society, in line with our purpose, through sharing our professional skills and talent. Our portfolio of support includes volunteering, fundraising, discounted work and financial contributions. This mix offers our people a variety of ways to contribute and to benefit from the opportunities available.
We know that many of our people want to ‘give something back’ to society, whilst developing their skills, so we continue to offer a significant amount of time – up to six days per year - for any of our staff or partners to volunteer. We aim to collectively volunteer at least 50,000 hours each year and for at least a quarter of our people to volunteer each year.
With a highly skilled workforce we also want to maximise the impact of our community programmes, so we’ve mapped our volunteering activities to PwC’s professional development framework. This helps staff to identify how volunteering can be part of their overall development, and to include it in the annual performance appraisal process. We also know that volunteering also helps our people feel more engaged, and builds their networks and their social awareness.
PwC Foundation
We established The PwC Foundation in October 2011 to drive our charitable activities. The objective of the Foundation is to promote social inclusion and sustainable development in the UK. Our charity partners are Mental Health UK, Beyond Food & Wellbeing of Women. We raise funds throughout the year and we are very proud of the support our people give to our charity partners. However, our charity partnerships go beyond financial support, we are committed to sharing our skills to enable our partners to maximise their impact and reach as many beneficiaries as possible.
The PwC Foundation is a registered charity (No 1144124)
Social Enterprise
Social enterprise has been a key part of our purpose for many years and is one of the ways that we help to empower communities and tackle social mobility.
Our work with social enterprises focuses on two key areas:
- harnessing the skills of our people to help social enterprise leaders grow successful ventures and increase their impact and
- supporting fast growing, ambitious social enterprises scale and find routes to market.
One Firm One Day
One Firm One Day (OFOD), is our annual firmwide fundraising and volunteering event. Staff across the UK are encouraged to join together and take part in giving something back to our local communities. First launched in 2009, it is our biggest and longest running community event.
Whilst the focus of the day changes each year, it aligns to the community engagement strategy, and has in the past focused on Social Enterprise, Social Mobility, Mental Health and Wellbeing.
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Social Mobility
As a major employer, we believe we can play a positive role in increasing social mobility through our recruitment, development and progression, and community and advocacy activities.
Our aim is to:
- lead by example as an employer and be recognised as an inclusive organisation where people from all backgrounds are able to work, develop and succeed
- use our skills and resources to enable people from disadvantaged backgrounds across the UK to make the most of their potential, whether at PwC or elsewhere.
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