CASE STUDIES
Long-term Partnerships
Oriel Securities and Blackfriars SettlementOriel Securities, a corporate and institutional stockbroking and advisory firm with 55 employees, became a City Action member in 2009. The company made a decision to partner with a community organisation that they could support in a range of ways and approached City Action for assistance with sourcing a suitable partner.read more |
Colt and Friendship WorksColt have been building their CSR programme from scratch since 2009. Selecting a charity partner was one aspect of setting up their community programme - the other aspect was introducing an employee volunteering policy which they introduced at the end of 2009. Colt operates in 14 countries and in 2009 each country was asked to work with its employees to select a charity partner for the next two years.read more |
Supporting Adults
Bank of Montreal's Drop-in Session SuccessCity Action member, Bank of Montreal Financial Group, have 110 employees based in the City. The company wanted to develop a community project that could potentially involve all of their employees.read more |
Company-wide projects
From ‘Big Week Out’ to ‘Three Big Weeks Out’In June 2007, law firm Addleshaw Goddard launched ‘Big Week Out’: a mass volunteering event that offered 300 Addleshaw Goddard employees the chance to spend a day at one of five projects in London, Leeds and Manchester.read more |
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Enterprise and Financial literacy
The real apprentices….SMART Business Advisory & Consulting are a growing team of 30 consultants based in the City. With the support and guidance of City Action, SMART developed a bespoke financial literacy and enterprise programme to benefit children within the local community and to develop their employees’ skills.read more |
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