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Matched Giving

Many companies will help support charities through a matched giving scheme, whereby they will match gifts donated by their employees. Some companies have formal schemes for matched funding, while others may consider each request on its own merits. In many cases, participating companies will match an employee’s donation pound for pound up to a set amount. A number of organisations will even double-match.

Below is a list of companies which we understand will match the charitable gifts of their employees. If your company is not listed, please contact your Human Resources department to enquire if such a scheme exists. Ask your employer about matched giving

This is a list of employers we know have offered this in the past - if you know of more, please let us know.

3i Deutschland GmbH

Abbey National

ABN Amro Bank

Accenture

Alfred Dunhill

Alliance & Leicester

Alliance Capital

American Express

Amoco Foundation

Anglian Water

Argos

Arla Foods

ARM Holdings

Asda

ASSEAL

AstraZeneca

AT Kearney

BAA

Bank of America

Bank of England

Bank of Scotland

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi

Bankers Trust

Barclays Bank

Barclays Capital

Barclays Group

BG Group

BOC Group

Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boots

Boston Consulting Group

Bradford and Bingley

Bristol-Myers Squibb

British American Tobacco

British Gas

C & A Stores

Cable & Wireless

Camelot Group

Cap Gemini

Capital International Research

Carlsberg Tetley

Cemex UK

Centrica

Chase Manhattan

Citibank Group

Cooperative Bank

Cornhill Insurance

Coutts Bank

Credit Suisse First Boston

De La Rue

Debenhams

Deloitte Consulting

Deutsche Bank

DHL

Diageo

Dixons Group

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein

Eli Lily

EMI Group

Energis

Ericsson Telecom

Ernst & Young

Experian

Exxon Mobil

Fidelity Investments

First Bus

First Group

Ford Motor Company

GlaxoSmithKline

Goldman Sachs

Guardian Royal Exchange

Halifax

HSBC

IBM

IDEO

Industrial Bank of Japan

Invensys

J Sainsbury’s

Johnson & Johnson

J P Morgan & Co

Kellogg’s

Kingfisher

KPMG

Legal & General

Littlewoods

Lloyds TSB

Marks and Spencer

Mars

Marsh & McLennan Companies

McKinsey & Co

Mercury Asset Management

Merrill Lynch

Microsoft

Midland Bank

Midlands Electricity

Mitsubishi

Moody's Investors Services Ltd

Morgan Stanley

National Grid Transco

National Power

National Westminster Bank

NCR Corporation

NFC Northern Electric

Norwich UnionO2

Pearson

Peugeot Motor Company

Pfizer

Philip Morris International

Philips

PPG Industries Foundation

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Proctor & Gamble

Reuters

Robert Fleming & Co

Rolls Royce

Royal and Sun Alliance

Royal Bank of Scotland Group

Royal London Mutual Insurance

Royal Sun Alliance

Schroder’s

Scottish and Southern Energy

Seaboard

Shell

Siemens Medical

Sigma Securities

SIT Investment Associates Foundation

Sky Broadcasting

SmithKline Beecham

Southern Electric

Stagecoach Group

Stagecoach Holdings

Standard & Poor’s

Sun Life of Canada

Swiss Bank Corp

Tesco

Texaco

Thames Water

The Economist Group

UBS Warburg

Unilever

United Airlines

United Utilities

Vodafone

Warner Music International

William M Mercer

Woolwich

Yorkshire Water

Employer Supported Volunteering

Ask your employer if they provide Employer Supported Volunteering - they might have a scheme in place to allow you to take paid leave for a day to support the PTA.

Worried about how to ask? Here's the email I sent my company....

Dear [Employer],

Employer Supported Volunteering

I have over the past number of years been very actively involved in volunteering to support our local primary school, through our PTA, a registered charity. This has helped raise money to support the school and children and been of a positive benefit to the local community. It has also been a positive experience for me providing an opportunity to develop skills including motivating and managing people.

I am writing to ask if [Company Name] would consider facilitating Employer Supported Volunteering within the company. The form of volunteering may vary but a simple example would be to allow paid leave for a day (or more) to volunteer for a charity.

There are a number of resources available providing guidance on how this can work and the benefits of getting involved https://www.cipd.org/uk/knowledge/guides/volunteering-employer-supported-guide. Not only does supporting volunteering benefit society but it can assist in employee retention and morale.

I hope you will give the idea your consideration and would be happy to discuss how it could work for us.

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