Balfour Beatty
The Prince’s Trust is Building Better Futures
with Balfour Beatty.
Balfour Beatty strongly believes in enhancing the social
environment of the many communities in which they work. They
demonstrate a genuine desire to inspire their employees to use
their skills to help young people through volunteering, whilst also
investing funding across three different programmes, Community
Cash, Development Awards and xl.
To celebrate 100 years of successful business, in 2009
Balfour Beatty launched a new charitable trust Building Better
Futures. The company provided seed funding to start the programme,
and then matched £ for £ all monies raised by Balfour Beatty
employees. In total between staff and the company, Balfour Beatty
has donated over £600,000 to The Prince’s Trust since 2009.
Through their work across UK communities’ employees have had
firsthand experience of the issues our young people face -
therefore they wanted to make a substantial commitment to The
Princes Trust as an organisation that directly targets
disadvantaged young people, giving opportunities they wouldn’t
otherwise have.
Their employees have taken The Princes Trust to heart.
Following an emotive communications campaign, employees nationally
have taken up the gauntlet to raise vital funds to maximise the
impact of the partnership with a tidal-wave of employee fundraising
support. Balfour Beatty’s employees across the country have been
running, jumping, swimming, cycling, shaving, baking, creating,
celebrating and taking part in all manner of other activities in
between!
Balfour Beatty’s determination to give disadvantaged young
people chance to build their careers has earned it a royal award at
our Annual Celebrate Success awards in 2010. Taking home the
Inspiring Leaders Awards for organisations who have shown
leadership in changing young lives and who share the values of The
Prince’s Trust.
Balfour Beatty scooped the coveted award for providing top
quality work placements, utilising the skills and dedication of
their employees to mentor young people and for providing a solid
introduction to the industry.
At the end of the day although it sounds cheesy
we want to give something back to society and The Prince's Trust is
a great way to do that.
Ian Tyler, Chief Executive