RBS 2006 Annual Report Download - page 42

Community Investment
■In 2006, over 25,000 employees took part in our employee
giving programmes (Give As You Earn and Community
Cashback Awards), generating £12.7 million for over
8,500 charities and good causes across the UK and Ireland.
■In 2006 our people spent a total of 202,800 hours on
community activities during working hours, representing an
investment of £3.6 million and involving 26,460 employees.
The Group’s main charity partners are The Prince’s Trust,
Fairbridge, Supergrounds and F2F, but in addition each of
our businesses has a list of approved community and charity
partners that employees can work with at a local level.
■The work of our people is recognised annually through
our Chairman’s Awards. 754 nominations were received
and 42 finalists were honoured at the awards presentation
in February 2007.
■In partnership with The Daily Mail, we made a £1 million
Christmas donation to 91 Children’s Charities, nominated
by 18,000 RBS employees and Daily Mail readers.
■Our Supergrounds programme entered its third year,
with 450 primary schools from across the UK, nominated
by RBS employees, benefiting from a playground
improvement project.
■Citizens Financial Group contributed $27 million
to 4,500 non-profit organisations in 13 states in the US,
as well as providing more than 70,000 volunteer hours,
at a value of $1.2 million.
■Charter One is making available $150 million in loans
over three years for economic and community development
through its Charter One Uptown Initiative. The Initiative
includes $100 million set aside for economic development
investments to encourage businesses to invest in the
Cleveland area.
RBS Supergrounds As the international reach of
RBS continues, so does the extension of its Community
Programme. A team of over 60 from our Global Banking
& Markets business across the Asia Pacific region gave up
a day of their time to refurbish the Lin Tian Migrant School
in Shanghai. Undertaken in partnership with Save the
Children, it was our first international Supergrounds project.
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Chairman’s Award This year’s winner
of the Chairman’s Award for Community
Excellence was Jim Smith, a branch
manager from Glasgow. Over the past
20 years he has dedicated his time
to supporting and coaching the junior
football team at Paisley United Boy’s
Club. He has raised over £125,000
for the Club in the last five years.