We want to use this unique reach to make a positive impact wherever we can. Our social action programme helps us harness our employees, products, services and purchasing power to address important community issues, and help the people whose lives we touch.

Approach

We want our employees, our customers and our suppliers to share our commitment to having a positive social impact on our local communities. We have focused our community strategy on areas where we can unlock the natural enthusiasm of our employees and customers to help others, and where we can use partnerships with community organisations to focus and direct our efforts to assisting those in greatest need. Our approach to community has been informed by our commitment to:

• Working in partnership with organisations who make a difference at a local level. Over the pastyear, we have established a strategic partnership with Barnardo’s, and engaged with Business in the Community, and Children in Need to develop opportunities for our employees to engage with local issues.
• Improving volunteering so it means more than just ‘done in a day’ projects. We fervently believe that greater engagement with community issues will help our people in their day-to-day work, as well as helping them develop important skills for our business. It will also facilitate employee retention.
• Increase fundraising within Royal Mail Group by providing structures and mechanisms to help our 170,000 employees raise money for good causes
• Engage our customers by offering imaginative products and services to help them make a positive social impact.

View more details on our social action strategy