We believe that every action has an impact, and we have an ethical responsibility to ensure that our impact as a company is positive. This belief is embedded throughout our culture and reflected in our Purpose, Vision, and Values. It’s embodied by Amoria Bond’s Charitable Trust and accountable through our CSR commitments. The Amoria Bond Charitable Trust is a registered charity set up by the company in 2009 to promote and facilitate a culture of giving back. Primarily funded by contributions from the company and our employees, the Trust has donated almost £300,000 to charitable causes worldwide.
In June 2022, 11 employees travelled to Peru to volunteer with the ongoing building work at a children's refuge in Las Laderas - a desert shanty town in the foothills of Lima.
Peru has suffered the highest mortality rate from the COVID pandemic globally, leaving even more children in desperate need. Project Peru's children's refuge houses, cares for and supports children in the area, however, due to lack of space, children as young as 14 were having to leave with nowhere to live, no chance of staying in school and limited prospects in one of the world's poorest regions.
Building work funded by our Charitable Trust was undertaken throughout the year to extend the refuge, which also provided local jobs for builders, tradespeople, teachers and refuge staff, ensuring more children can complete their education and gain meaningful employment. All of which will contribute back to their local economy and community... a positive, sustainable cycle of impact on children's entire lives and the wider community.
This was our 5th volunteer trip to the refuge since 2010. While most of the building work has been paid for by the Amoria Group, our volunteers are 100% self-funded, having raised money for their trip through fundraising activities during the year.
Previously, we have built 101 houses - providing homes and security for more than 500 of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the community and three soup kitchens that feed hundreds of people every day. The facilities also provide a much-needed safe space for vital social, health and educational facilities.
We have developed a friendship with the people of Las Laderas and with our long-term charity partners, Project Peru, and send hundreds of care packages of essentials every Christmas, including over 170 in 2022.
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Our CSR policy and commitments are reviewed annually to ensure we’re fulfilling our purpose of Progressing Lives Everywhere and that our actions are having a positive impact. Our current CSR commitments fall into four key impact areas outlined below.
Help the Community is a core commitment in our five-year G.R.O.W.T.H. strategy. Through our Charitable Trust, we’ve promised to deliver five charitable projects over five years. In 2022, we funded an extension to Project Peru’s children’s refuge and built a soup kitchen.
We offer all employees a fully paid day each year to volunteer at a charity of their choice. Employees have spent that time decorating a children's hospice, fundraising for Francis House, delivering donations to Ukrainian refugees, clearing up local beaches and after Cologne's floods, helping at soup kitchens and homeless shelters and much more.
We have qualified trained Mental Health First Aiders within each of our offices and run monthly well-being workshops and financial wellbeing webinars led by external experts. We also provide a dedicated mental health and well-being zone on our LMS, offering a range of resources and support 24/7.
We plant 1 tree for every NPS survey completed by our clients and candidates, 10 trees per employee every year, 100 trees every time an employee is promoted internally in celebration of their progression, and 1000 trees every time we open an office in a new global location. So far we've planted over 80,00 trees!
We raised over £4,000 for the emergency response non-profit organisations who worked on the ground to provide humanitarian aid to all those impacted by the 2023 Turkey/Syria earthquakes. This was through employee-led fundraising activities as well as a company donation.
We raised £200 for Manchester's Francis House Children's Hospice at Easter 2023 through their Easter Egg sales activity.
Our AGM raffle raised a whopping £4,908, which was split across charities selected by each of our offices: Perry's Food Bank (Manchester), Schumaneck Children's Charity (Cologne), Willing Hearts (Singapore), Ukraine Foundation (Netherlands).
On Wear It Pink Day, our colleagues from the Manchester office came to work dressed in pink, brought homemade cakes and donated a total of £300 to the cause.
Volunteers from our Manchester office used their charity day to redecorate the rooms and paint the walls of a facility for children affected by domestic violence.
Amoria Bond, as well as individual employees, donated money to the International Red Cross' dedicated Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis appeal. Individuals from our Cologne office have also taken contributions of supplies from their colleagues, which they have driven to the Polish border to help those affected and displaced by the current war.
A group of volunteers from Amoria Bond's Manchester office held a workshop on career and interview skills for young people in collaboration with EY Foundation. We talked to them about the skills they can demonstrate when looking for a job, and why recruitment can be a great career to get in to.
In January 2022, our AB Active Challenge saw colleagues collectively jog, cycle, walk and swim 7431 km to raise money for much-needed construction work to expand Project Peru's children's home in Las Laderas. The home provides shelter, safety, and education for some of the region's most vulnerable children and youth.
Amoria Bond’s Amsterdam office have raised an incredible €2,200 for Serve the City Amsterdam through their recent charity auction, which they used to donate 80 Christmas packages for underprivileged families in and around the city.
In July 2020 The Amoria Bond Group partnered with One Tree Planted to plant trees around the world for every milestone make as a business. Since then we've planted over 75,800 trees!
In 2021 areas in North Rhein Westfalen were badly impacted by heavy floods. Employees from our Cologne office volunteered to help clean-up efforts in affected areas. The company and many employees also donated to the German Red Cross to help the support effort.
Our EU Engineering Contract team and members of their families used their volunteer charuty day together clearing up Zandvoort beach.
Every year Amoria Bond purchases Christmas care packages containing essential items for the people of Las Laderas. In 2020, our AGM raffled raised over £5,000 to buy 177 care packages for the community.
Each December, Amoria Bond employees choose a local charity to raise funds for. In 2020 our teams donated to charities including Schumaneck Kinderhaus (Cologne), Serve the City (Amsterdam), Francis House Hospice (Manchester) and Foodbank Singapore.
We have a long-standing relationship with N-Gage – a Manchester based charity that provides young people with social and educational support. Most recently, in 2021 we donated furniture and computing equipment, and later this year a team of employee volunteers will be helping redecorate their youth club in Burnage.
The team at our Manchester headquarters funded an entire library - including books and furnishings - for St Wilfred’s primary school. We continue to regularly donate books.
Employees from our Singapore office volunteered for cooking duty at the Willing Hearts Soup Kitchen, who provide free meals to elderly and vulnerable people. Amoria bond also contributed $2,500 to the charity.
In July 2020, employees, along with their friends and families, collectively ran, swarm, cycled, walked or even skated the equivalent distance from AB's HQ to Peru's land border. They raised £8.000 for our project in Las Laderas: For every kilometre, Amoria Bond donated £1!
We’ve undertaken many more charity projects through the years and we’re dedicated to continuing our hard work in supporting our communities in the future.
Find out more about our non-profit partners and read about our latest CSR initiatives, experiences and learning as we continue to work together to make a positive sustainable impact.
Find out more about our commitment to CSR and how you could get involved.
