Charity & Community

We have a special charity initiaitive called 'JLT Making a Difference'. This coordinates and supports staff charity activities:

• UK staff are offered one day each year, a 'Charity Day', to help a charity or work in the local community.
• As a Lloyd's Community Programme partner, members of staff from our London offices are encouraged to give up their lunch hours twice a week to visit the English Martyr's Roman Catholic School in Aldgate to help with IT training and support.
• The Group's Charity Committee allocates a large proportion of its annual budget supporting staff fundraising activities, matching pound for pound any amount raised by our UK staff in fundraising activities they undertake for charity (up to a maximum of £5,000). In 2007 this totalled more than £62,000.
• In the UK, The Give As You Earn scheme enables employees to make regular charitable donations in a tax efficient manner. Donations under this scheme raised in excess of £25,000 for charity in 2007.
• The Group Charity Committee consider many requests received for donations from a wide variety of local and national charities. All requests are considered carefully on their merits, but we take particular interest in those charities that are connected to the communities local to our offices.
• Many of our overseas offices throughout the world are involved in local charity initiatives and active fundraising.

Our total charitable donations for 2007 amounted to £267,210.