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The Travis Perkins Group is keenly involved in supporting the local communities in which it operates, and donated £1.8 million to worthwhile causes in 2011. The group greatly appreciates the efforts and kind donations made by its employees, customers and suppliers, and hopes to equal or better its donation to charities this year.
The Travis Perkins Group also operates Payroll Giving, enabling its employees to donate to charity directly from their salary. The company matches any donation made by colleagues to its nominated charities. It also runs a colleague lottery, and a salary sacrifice scheme called ‘Small Change, Big Difference’, in which employees donate the ‘spare’ pennies from their monthly salary to the company’s nominated charities.
Breast Cancer Campaign (partnered with Travis Perkins)
Breast Cancer Campaign's mission is to beat breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure.
Children's Hospices UK (partnered with Travis Perkins)
Children's Hospices UK is the national charity that gives voice and support to all children's hospice services. Its vision is for every child and young person who is not expected to reach adulthood - and their family - to have awareness of, and access to, the highest standards of care and support close to or in the home.
Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research (partnered with Wickes)
The research funded by the charity is focused on finding causes, improving diagnosis and treatments, and running groundbreaking clinical trials for all blood cancer patients. Blood cancers including leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma affect people of all ages from newborns to grandparents, and LLR aims to reach all those affected by it and give them the best possible chance of survival.
The Prostate Cancer Charity (partnered with Keyline)
The Prostate Cancer Charity is the UK's leading voluntary organisation working with people affected by prostate cancer with a mission to fight it on every front – through research, support, information and campaigning.
ChildLine (partnered with City Plumbing Supplies)
ChildLine is the UK's free, confidential helpline for children and young people. It's a service of the NSPCC and has been championing children for more than 23 years. Trained volunteers are on hand to provide advice and support, by phone and online, 24 hours a day. Whenever and wherever children need them, ChildLine is there.
Happy Days Children's Charity (partnered with CCF)
Happy Days is a national children's charity dedicated to providing holidays, residential trips, days out and theatre trips for disadvantaged young people with special needs.
CLIC Sargent (partnered with Benchmarx Kitchens and Joinery)
Every day, 10 families are told their child has cancer. CLIC Sargent is the UK's leading children's cancer charity and is the only organisation to offer them all round care and support.
Donna Louise Children's Hospice (partnered with Tile Giant)
The charity provides respite and end-of-life care for children from Staffordshire and South Cheshire. Its services are free of charge to the families that need them and the charity relies almost entirely on donations to keep the hospice open.
Whizz-Kidz (partnered with Travis Perkins Supply Chain Division)
Whizz-Kidz gives disabled children and young people the independence to enjoy an active childhood – at home, at school and at play.
Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance (partnered with Group Head Office, Northampton)
WNAA provides a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service to the counties of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and the Milton Keynes area. Its service routinely carries senior Doctors and Consultants to the scene of incidents in minutes to provide lifesaving treatment and medication at the scene and en-route to hospital.
Keech Hospice Care for Children (partnered with Group Head Office, Northampton)
The charity runs a hospice service for children across Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Milton Keynes. Its aim is to help families make the most of the precious time they have left with their child. Care is provided free-of-charge to all families that need it.
