November 2011
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WatchAs announced by NESTA, CAF has been shortlisted for the Innovation in Giving Fund for a project we are seeking to develop in partnership with Legal and General. While there’s still a long way to go we are excited about our idea so we wanted to share it with you in a bit more detail. Graham Precey, Head of CSR at Legal and General, explains the idea. “The Social Investment Panel we are proposing to...
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Bolting on or embedding in?
The research on international CR reports from Leeds University is both interesting and quite shocking! The findings certainly do nothing to promote CSR to sceptics within the business environment.
The report reinforces CAF’s belief that corporate responsibility(CR) reports aren’t necessarily the best way to communicate with stakeholders. From the report it is apparent that CR reports can be...
Unlocking the potential of payroll giving
Sir Michael Rake, BT Group Chairman, has described payroll giving as ‘the simplest and most effective way to give to charity’. If this is the case, why is it that only 3% of the British workforce takes advantage of this tax effective way of supporting their favourite charities?
It seems in many cases, employees simply aren’t aware that payroll giving exists or that their employers offer it. For...
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UK Employment News Highlights the role of...
This week’s news that UK unemployment is at 2.6m – including a record 1.02m young people – highlights the need for companies to focus more of their corporate responsibility (CR) efforts on employability.
The main challenge is that too often organisations compartmentalise CR as a distinct field of activity that is not interconnected with the core business. So at the same time as they...
