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35% of our people volunteered in 2007, contributing 38,000 hours to communities.

Investing in our communities
KPMG in the UK’s commitment to communities is at the heart of our Values. Volunteering schemes and community projects which focus on employability and access to opportunity, and environmental management are the foundation of our commitment to communities; these have, over the years, matured into an integrated programme aimed at building sustainable communities. We strive to inspire, challenge and empower our people to contribute positively to local communities and the environment, helping to create a substantial business future for us all.

All our people can access 3.5hours of firm time per month to volunteer in and each of our UK offices has a CSR Forum – a group of people from all grades of the business who are interested in CSR – who help implement the national CSR strategy and respond to local priorities, building strong partnerships with local community organisations.

There are two strands to our community involvement activity; community investment programmes which focus on employee volunteering, and a programme of charitable giving.

Community investment programmes

We are helping children get a better education.
With finance and support from KPMG, the City of London KPMG Academy will open its doors in 2009. This will be a mixed and non-denominational school, with around 170 11-year-olds due to join in its first year. We have committed over £1 million and many hours of our time to the school. Environmental lessons from the construction of our new London headquarters are being applied to the building of the school. – a ground source heat pump may be used to provide part of the Academy’s energy, for example.

We also support a range of other projects designed to improve education for children and young adults. Most notably these include the KPMG Foundation’s Every Child a Reader and Every Child Counts schemes, and many other examples of literacy and numeracy support work in schools. KPMG Foundation

We are supporting disadvantaged groups and communities back into the workplace.

Our employability programmes aim to address some of the inequalities that exist between the least advantaged groups and communities and the rest of society by closing the opportunity gap and ensuring that support reaches those who need it most. Our programmes include mentoring young entrepreneurs through The Prince’s Trust Business Start-up programme as well as supporting ex-homeless people and refugees back into work through providing CV and interview skills coaching sessions.

A focus on conservation and sustainability We are committed to enabling our people to actively contribute to our programme of environmental management. We have established local volunteering relationships with community organisations which enable practical, hands on involvement, whilst we are working closely with our staff charity Help the Hospices to reduce the carbon footprint of the UK’s 200+ hospices through energy audits delivered by KPMG volunteers.

We are committed to ensuring that our CSR programmes remain relevant and deliver value to our communities and the business. During 2008 we will be rolling out a new focus on volunteering following a strategic review of our activities with the view to increasing the volunteering experience for all involved.

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