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We know our employees care about their local communities. So we´ve partnered with eight national charities that work at a local level, and who share our values and support our responsibilities.

Over 5,000 of our employees voted up and down the country to pick these eight charities. We´re now focusing on working with them to meet our shared goals.

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charities we support

Here are the charities we´re giving our money, time, skills and technology to help.

Barnardo´s

Over 80% of our employees voted Barnardo´s as one of their top two charities to get involved with in their region, so we gave each region a grant to help fund a local Barnardo´s project. And we support people with their own fundraising and volunteering.

Last year, our team raised over £10,000 for Barnardo´s, and took part in schemes like ‘Big Toddles’, ‘Bag it Up’ and ‘Store-wars’ team challenges. We´re also using our skills to train Barnardo´s support workers in e-safety – so they can train young people and their parents in turn.

And we´re giving Barnardo´s children more chances to train and work, too. We´re sponsoring young people to take the UK´s first full-time accredited course in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at the National Enterprise Academy. And we´ll be offering work placements, events and other incentives to give them a brighter future.

our Monmouth Community Store

Our Community Store is a completely new concept. Part phone shop, part community centre, it´s a place where people can come in, have a coffee, get help with their phones and meet other people in the area. There´s a kitchen and fully-stocked reading area, with Orange Prize for Fiction books. And the local police hold their community drop-in sessions there too. All the staff are trained as Orange Ambassadors so that they can run sessions on e-safety in the store and in local schools.