Other community support

Nationwide supported more than 300 good causes and charities over the year. Our flagship charity, nominated by our employees, is Macmillan Cancer Support. In 2007 we received a Jubilee Award from Business in the Community in recognition of our 14 year partnership with the charity.

Macmillan Cancer Support

Employee volunteers One in three of us will get cancer and 1.2 million of us in the UK are already living with cancer. Macmillan has been our flagship charity since 1993, and over the past 14 years employees and members have raised almost £5 million, helping Macmillan to provide practical, medical, emotional and financial support. We make an annual donation of £150,000 to the charity and this year our employees raised over £25,000 for Macmillan from the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning event.

Other charitable giving

Corporate donations included the following:

  • £50,000 to Citizens Advice Bureaux helps the work of debt counsellors. A fair deal and responsible lending also play a part in personal finances: read more in Products
  • £50,000 to the Farepak Response Fund – a charity set up to help families who lost money when the Farepak Hampers saving scheme collapsed

Employee giving included the following:

  • through the Give-As-You-Earn scheme, employees donated £99,020 to good causes
  • teams across Nationwide raised over £22,000 for the BBC Children in Need appeal
  • Nationwide employees donated over 700 Christmas shoe boxes filled with thoughtfully chosen gifts for children in Kosovo and Bosnia
  • employees raised £50,000 for Comic Relief

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