Case Studies
Argos Ltd
Argos was the first retailer last year to receive
the new Gold Award from the Institute of Fundraising,
for achieving a 10% participation of its employees through
the payroll giving scheme. To win a gold award companies
have to demonstrate that they have actively promoted
payroll giving within the last year, either pay the
administration costs or match employee’s donations.
Argos was awarded a gold award because it matches employee’s
first month’s donation, from the GUS charitable
trust, and pays all the administration costs, meaning
every penny goes to the chosen charity.
Lorna Liggett, Community Affairs Manager
said:-
“Argos employees have always supported all fundraising
initiatives with great interest and commitment, we have
seen our payroll giving grow considerably over the past
years, and one factor without a doubt is that we have
been in partnership with Hands On Helping Charity, a
professional fundraising organization that actively
visits all our 650 stores nationwide.
I would recommend them to any company that wishes to
engage its employees in this worthwhile scheme."
Case Studies
Marshalls plc
Marshalls plc is the UK’s no.1 hard landscape
transformation company and is the UK’s market
leader in paving, decorative products for gardens, driveways
and commercial hard landscaping. The Marshalls Group
has over 2,700 employees operating at manufacturing
sites, quarries, service centres and offices throughout
the UK.
They have always been a forward looking company and
in 1994 they introduced a payroll giving scheme, which
is administered by The Charities Trust, as a way for
staff to support their favourite charity. The scheme
really took off in 1995 when Marshalls engaged the services
of Hands On a professional fundraising organization
that promotes payroll giving in the work place.
Marshalls’ staff have now raised over £200,000
for charity since the scheme started.
Neil Davidson, Corporate Social Responsibility
Manager said:
“We are delighted
with the way our scheme has grown over the past ten years,
last year we received the Gold Payroll Giving Quality
Mark, the highest accolade a company can obtain for having
over 10% of its work force participating in the scheme,
we would recommend the scheme to other companies as it
is very easy to administer and promote.”
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T-Mobile UK
In 2006 T-Mobile UK launched a new community
investment pro gramme with input from employees on how
they wanted to support causes that are important to
them. As a result, the T-Mobile ‘Give alittle…change
a lot’ scheme continues to include Give As You
Earn as one option for employees. It’s an easy
way for staff to donate to charities directly from their
pay each month.
Allison Murray, Corporate Responsibility Manager
T-Mobile UK said:
“Since 2000 we’ve worked with Hands On,
who have actively promoted Give as You Earn to our employees
across the UK. We are very pleased with the way our
scheme has grown over the years. They have been very
effective in engaging our staff in payroll giving and
made the scheme easy for us to implement and run.”
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Morrisons plc
“Morrisons Plc is very happy to support
the Payroll Giving Scheme; it enables our employees
to support their favourite charity, and raises over
£200,000 a year for many different charities large
and small”
Sarah Grant, Remuneration and Benefits
Manager
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