Company Endorsements
Here are some thoughts from some of our existing company partners.
We look forward to the success of Pounds for Pledges within these organisations and are excited to get more people donating.
“We were delighted to win “Best Promotional Partnership” at the first National Payroll Giving Awards in 2007 with Hands On Helping. The partnership has run smoothly with Hands On Helping operating in a professional yet friendly manner, bringing participation up to over 13%. Having over a 10% take up has means we were awarded the Gold Payroll Giving Quality Mark, which really shows our commitment to corporate social responsibility.
Neil Davidson and Wendy Tapping (founder of Hands On Helping) receiving “Best Promotional Partnership” at the first National Payroll Giving Awards in 2007
Launching our Pounds for Pledges Campaign will hopefully increase participation even further, with Hands On Helping showing their generosity and their regular visits to all our sites, team members will certainly be more eager to give more!”
Neil Davidson
Corporate Social Responsibility
“As a company who are ever expanding, Payroll Giving has proven to be a vital part of our CSR programme. Hands On Helping have demonstrated great flexibility in visiting our many diverse sites to promote the scheme. Here at Capita we anticipate the new Pounds for Pledges proposal will be very well received right across the Group and urge other companies to join the campaign.”
Juliet Feeney
Corporate Communications Executive
“We launched our Payroll Giving scheme with Hands On Helping in September 2007. The scheme has been a brilliant success with over 10% of employees now donating through their pay. The new Pounds for Pledges Campaign will give the scheme a fantastic boost, providing our employees with more incentive to donate. We’re excited about the prospect of increasing participation and contributions to charity. It’s great to see that Hands On is committed to improving payroll giving and donating to charity themselves.”
Alan Watkinson
Rewards Manager
“Its good to work with a forward thinking company such as Hands On Helping, Pounds For Pledges will definitely enhance our existing Payroll giving Scheme and encourage more employees to join and pledge to their favorite charity”
Laura Carter
Internal Communications Manager
“The group has a strong commitment to corporate social responsibility. Having a Payroll Giving Scheme allows our colleagues to have a hand in helping many personal good causes. We currently have over 12% of our staff giving to charity in this way, raising over £320, 000 last year. In October 2007 the group won Most Innovative Promotion at the National Payroll Giving Awards, at The Treasury.
We are committed to providing our colleagues with the information and facility to support the causes they believe in. I am delighted to be in a position to increase further the profile of our Payroll Giving Scheme, with Hand on Helping’s new initiative, Pounds For Pledges, and would greatly encourage other companies to take advantage of this wonderful idea.
The new Pounds for Pledges initiative is going to give a real boost to participation, it’s great to know that Hands On is committed to giving back to charity.”
Lorna Liggett
Community Affairs Manager
“The recent re-launch of the SIG Group’s Payroll Giving scheme has been a great success and one that has been well received by staff. Hands On Helping have worked exceptionally hard to visit all our sites nation wide and the results have been phenomenal, increased figures are promising indicating that we will achieve the prestigious Gold Award by next year. Pounds for Pledges will no doubt help us to further promote Payroll Giving and attain this goal; it’s inspiring to see our employees so dedicated to such a worthwhile cause.”
Mark Smith
Group CSR Manager
