As a socially responsible business, we recognise our obligation to contribute to the wider community.  Through our Community Investment Programme, which has won several awards, we provide professional and financial support to a wide variety of charities and community organisations, placing a special emphasis on supporting the young and disadvantaged.  We encourage all our people to become involved in charity and community projects with the full support of the firm.  Activities that our people engage in include:

• Secondary school mentoring
• Prince’s Trust business mentoring
• Volunteering in the firm’s time
• Regional office fundraising
• Our annual ‘Computers for Charity' competition
• A highly successful Give As You Earn scheme

Deloitte is a member of the One Per Cent Club.  The Deloitte Charitable Trust operated independently of the firm’s management to allocate designated funds to charitable organisations.

Recently, Deloitte announced its involvement in two additional major projects:  employability skills and disability sport.

Deloitte is making a £2.5 million investment over the next five years to develop a new generation of employability skills trainers in FE Colleges across the country. Over the course of the programme, the Deloitte initiative will train up to 800 new trainers. These trainers will teach employability skills classes to students on vocational courses, helping them to develop the skills, attitudes and behaviours that they need to secure and sustain employment.

Deloitte has launched a £3.4m programme to develop disability sport in the UK, between now and 2012. Our initiative is 50% funded by Government, and reflects our twin traditions of supporting community endeavour and nurturing top talent. There will be opportunities for all Deloitte staff to contribute through fundraising, team activity, and by supporting local athletes.