At a time of cuts and austerity measures, Guardian News and Media (GNM) continues to demonstrate the importance of its many community initiatives through financial support and new initiatives.
In fact, 2010 saw a further expansion of our volunteer scheme, with almost a quarter of the team supporting our community partners and other organizations, in total 4.268 hours to contribute. This figure excludes the large number of employees who volunteer in their private lives.
Despite the financial squeeze, employees also continued to donate generously to charities through our payroll system. Just under a third of staff, participated in 2010/11 support institutions of 218 charity and giving a total of ￡ 89, 317.63.
Although the numbers are a bit down on the previous year, continues to be almost 10 times greater than the average Sign payroll giving in the United Kingdom, which dropped to 3.8%.
In addition to local community program, GNM continues to support a series of other initiatives.
Integrated development project of r $ 3 million of GNM in rural community of Katine, Uganda in partnership with Barclays, AMREF and extended for a fourth year to ensure progress is sustained.
The Guardian also worked with AMREF to develop a legacy project that will launch in formally after the project ends in October 2011. This three-year extension was designed to support the many associative structures that were developed and ensure they have the necessary knowledge and training to maintain their contribution to the community. The Legacy Fund will be financed by donations from readers Guardian and observer.
Closer to home, the Guardian Christmas appeal raised much needed funds for 10 small UK charities who are struggling to maintain services for vulnerable young people. Guardian and Observer readers have donated a total of ￡ 442,640.
Editor-in-Chief of the guardian, Alan Rusbridger, said: "this money will make a real difference. These are fantastic, inspiring works of charity that are capable of transforming the life and the possibilities of life of some of our most vulnerable young people. "
In addition to encourage donations, GNM and its owner, the Scott Trust, are involved in various education and training programmes. The guardian Foundation, created 20 years ago to support the commitments of the Fund Scott to support the development of independent journalism abroad last year conducted training events and other initiatives in Eastern Europe, Africa, and for the first time also in China.
Scott Charitable Trust Fund continues to support projects associated with the independent journalism, ethics of journalist, media literacy and journalist training, both in the United Kingdom and abroad, despite financial restraints mean reduced the number of initiatives that are now supporting.
GNM's Education Center, located in our offices of Kings place, provides a range of programs for students and adults. School groups Learn how to do a cover of a newspaper with Center focused education technology State-of-the-art that mimics the operation of the actual writing. Workshops for schools and colleges are strongly signed. The Center also runs adult workshops and a range of digital activities including podcasting and video news.
In General, it is difficult to put an exact figure of how much support has been given to Community related initiatives, because it is so much a part of what we do. However, for the last financial year (March 2010/11), Community expenditure relating to donations, the Community programme, donations from readers of the guardian Katine project and Scott Trust Foundation totaled nearly ￡ 1. 35 m. The figure includes this year's Christmas appeal Guardian. Our current and future goals remain the same.
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