In 2010, we invested more than £10.9 million in community projects.
23% of our colleagues currently take part in employee involvement activities.
Teams of our people spent almost 6,850 hours volunteering in the community, supporting the work of 34 different organisations in sustainability projects.
We celebrated the tenth anniversary of our partnership with Age Concern Enterprises (now Age UK) in September 2010 and now 225,234 people are currently signed up to our Age Concern product for older customers. We renewed the contract with Age UK in 2011, extending our relationship for a further 10 years.
We support educational programmes to introduce youngsters to energy and help them understand the challenges we face in creating a sustainable energy future.
Volunteers made over 320 visits to schools to deliver a variety of support to over 8,500 children including 188 Energy Experience volunteer sessions.
We recognise outstanding contributions by employees through entering the CARES (BITC employee volunteering scheme) awards and, in 2010, our employees received the West Midlands Community Impact Champion of the Year award and the East Midlands Community Innovation award. Furthermore, we were awarded Community Mark status reflecting our holistic approach to community engagement.
Our employees’ views are crucial in developing our Community Programme and engaging even more employees. We send a survey to all employees who have been involved in our volunteering programmes, and use these results to further improve our programmes and the volunteering experience.
In 2010 the results showed;
- 90% of employees said they felt prouder working for E.ON knowing about how we contribute to local communities
- 99% of employees said they felt volunteering had a positive impact on the local community
- 89% of employees said volunteering had positively changed their behaviours and attitude
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| Community investment[1] (£)
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[1] We broadly define community investment in line with the London Benchmarking Group (LBG) model (see http://www.lbg-online.net/lbg/top_menu/about_the_lbg/guidance/1_introduction_to_measuring_your_inputs). The principal focus of our community investment and employee volunteering activity is in three key areas - education, supporting vulnerable consumers and working with communities close to our sites. Our community investment includes grants for capital projects or research, cash donation, sponsorships and the provision of goods or services in kind. The figure does not include any employee time or management costs of running our community programmes.
