Geared up Employers

Access Accounting continually strives to make the company a great place to work, and Workplace Giving plays a key role in our efforts. The scheme’s set-up has proved a great draw, with a growing number of staff embracing this practical and tax efficient way of supporting causes that really matter to them.

We are pleased to be supporters of the Geared for Giving campaign. People at Addleshaw Goddard take pride in giving something back to those who have less advantages than ourselves and Payroll Giving is the simplest and most tax efficient way to make that happen.

Making donations to charity through Workplace Giving is so simple. I would encourage any company who doesn’t currently operate such a scheme to consider doing so.

We have been enabling our staff to give tax-free through their salaries for 21 years now, and it is something that Boots is firmly committed to. I would recommend this type of giving to all businesses, large or small, as a great way to support individual choice when giving to charity. Boots are thrilled to ask more companies to join the Geared for Giving campaign.

We were thrilled with the launch of our scheme last year. We have had our annual visit which was again very well received by our people with our total employee participation now over 22%. We would encourage other employers to join the Geared for Giving campaign and really make a difference.

We are delighted to provide our staff at Cardif Pinnacle with an ongoing opportunity to make donations to a charity of their choice. The Workplace Giving system is easy to use and has helped demonstrate to our employees our strong stance on Corporate Social Responsibility: Whenever possible we will use our corporate systems to contribute to the well-being of those most vulnerable in our society.

For nearly twenty years, the City of London Corporation has enabled its employees to give to their favourite charities in the most efficient way possible. We are pleased to facilitate support to different charities and to match-fund donations to our flagship charity partner. In 2008, we will be relaunching our scheme to ensure all employees are Geared for Giving.

In April we launched our Workplace Giving Scheme, a simple way for employees to support their chosen charities whilst at the same time demonstrating the Company’s strong commitment to the Corporate Responsibility agenda by matching donations made. A win for all concerned.

More than 15% of Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank people now participate in what has been a really successful scheme for us. With all donations to our official charity partner, Help the Hospices matched £ for £, our people will raise an impressive £185,000 for charities this year

22% of our staff currently take part in our Workplace Giving scheme and we are delighted that so many staff take up the scheme. It enables them to support their own charitable interests in a much more effective way, providing a regular income for charities.

Workplace Giving is a vital component of our CSR policy and our UK employees have welcomed the opportunity to donate to the charities of their choice directly. This simple and effective scheme benefits all concerned and provides a feel good factor which resonates through our business

As an international business, giving back to the community is something we are very passionate about and the Workplace Giving scheme offers a great way to do this. In addition to raising money for charity the scheme has also delivered huge HR benefits in terms of team-building, enabling us to reconnect with employees, and boosting morale. It has been an extremely beneficial scheme for all involved.

We recently launched our Workplace Giving Scheme and it has proved to be very successful. It is a really simple and tax efficient way for our employees to put something back into the community. We are pleased to be supporters of the geared for Giving Campaign.

As a company we value our Corporate Social Responsibility and consider Workplace Giving a strong part of this. It enables our people to choose to have their charitable donations deducted directly from their salary, free of tax, straight to their chosen charity.

Workplace Giving has been really popular with our staff and in 2007 we were lucky enough to be awarded the prestigious Gold Quality Mark, with 13% of our employees taking part. We’re pleased to see more and more people are getting involved each year.

fish4 employees have supported the Workplace Giving scheme for a number of years as a way of expressing their personal affinity with their chosen charity. We are proud to say that they have been recognised for this support with HM Government’s Gold Award. Workplace Giving forms an integral part of our overall Corporate Responsibility Strategy and we would encourage other employers to add it to theirs, by supporting the Geared for Giving Campaign.

Flight Centre is extremely proud to be a part of the Geared for Giving campaign and support those employees who wish to help their chosen charities in such an effective way. Our higher-rate taxpayers especially love the ease of donating through payroll giving as it helps their cause so much more. The entire Flight Centre workforce has shown great enthusiasm for the scheme and after only one month we were well on our way to qualifying for a Gold Award and really putting something back into the community.

Workplace Giving has been a part of our culture for over 20 years and is very popular with our employees and pensioners because of the tax efficiencies it offers and the matched giving that the company provides of up to £1,200 pa. 32% of our employees participate in the scheme. We are all extremely proud to be part of such a successful Workplace Giving scheme benefiting good causes to the tune of nearly £300,000 pa and add our full support to the Geared for Giving Campaign.

We are delighted to be involved with Workplace Giving, over 40% of our employees participate in this scheme. It is a really simple way for our people to put something back into the community.

Thirty-seven percent of Guardian News & Media staff donate through our Workplace Giving scheme, which uses match-funding to support employees charitable giving. Over the years, the scheme has leveraged over half a million pounds for charity.

Having recently completed the Best Companies Top 100 Companies survey, ‘giving something back’ emerged as one of the top criteria for determining employee engagement in our organisation. Geared for Giving recognises the importance our staff place on contributing to important causes, and ensures that the chosen charities gain the maximum possible benefit

Haygarth is incredibly proud to have a Gold Award winning Workplace Giving scheme with over 20% of our staff and new joiners giving a massive amount of tax-free funds every month,. This type of giving has inspired us to to support a company charity and promotes our overall commitment to CSR as an employer.

Haymarket Media Group appreciates the opportunity that Workplace Giving gives its employees to support a wide range of charitable causes. Since its launch, a quarter of our employees have signed up to the scheme. I highly recommend the scheme to other employers.

HBOS has participated in Workplace Giving for some time and has seen an increase in the number of colleagues taking part over the last year. As Workplace Giving is flexible, we’ve recently enabled colleagues to donate to the HBOS Foundation in aid of the HBOS Charity of the Year programme - the Million £ Challenge. All colleague donations through Workplace Giving to the Million £ Challenge are then matched by the HBOS Foundation, up to £600 per colleague per annum. We’re delighted that more and more colleagues are participating in this simple, tax efficient way to support charities and that the scheme has now become an integral part of our charitable giving activity.

Workplace Giving has provided Kelly Sevices employees an efficient and accessible means of making a donation to their preferred charitable organisation. The scheme has been extremely well received by our Head Office and branch based personnel.

We currently have 12% of employees across our locations and subsidiaries giving to good causes direct from their salary. I feel strongly that companies have a duty to inform employees and consumers alike where the organisation stands on issues of conduct and culture.

About one year ago we relaunched our Workplace Giving scheme and since then staff participation has gone from 6 to 206, smashing our original uptake target for this year. We have now achieved a Gold standard Government award and have been inspired to offer a further £20,000 in matched funding. We are delighted at how much this type of giving can raise for the charities and how good it makes Mace employees feel to be part of it

At Mills & Reeve Workplace Giving is an important element of our corporate responsibility agenda. A large number of our staff are involved as it is an easy and tax effective way of giving to the charities of their choice.

National Express East Coast is delighted to support Workplace Giving. We promote the scheme at every opportunity reminding staff of the benefits of giving through payroll and how their favourite charity are the only winners. It really is the only way to give.

Workplace Giving has been a great success at Payne. It is a simple, tax efficient scheme that allows our staff to give to a charity of their choice directly from their wages.

Workplace Giving is an effective way for our company and employees to join a tax-free and cost effective means of selecting and donating to a charity of their choice. We fully support the new Geared for Giving campaign, to encourage other employers to operate and effectively promote the scheme.

We wanted to encourage payroll giving but didn’t have the time and resources to champion it effectively. Using Workplace Giving made a new impetus possible, and multi-site presentations successfully raised awareness and increased take-up, so everyone has benefited.

We’re committed to providing our staff with the opportunity to give something back as individuals and as a company. I am delighted to be in a position to raise the profile of Workplace Giving and would strongly advise other companies to take advantage of this great scheme.

Symbian is proud to support the Workplace Giving scheme. The strong participation of Symbian’s employees is testament to a company that lives its values and brand by contributing to its environment as well as its business.

Our successful scheme reflects, and enhances, the commitment of the firm and its employees to look out to the needs of the wider world. Across a huge range of charities, the simplicity of Workplace Giving enables us all to make a difference

Wynnwith Group Limited introduced a Workplace Giving scheme to strengthen our CSR policy and expand on our employee benefit options. We were overwhelmed by the way our staff embraced this type of giving with 16% of our colleagues opting to get involved during the first Workplace Giving UK visits. We are so pleased that we chose to provide colleagues with this opportunity and highly recommend the experience to others as an outstandingly simple way to engage with employees and to do something good for the world.