Our people are committed to being actively involved in their communities, supporting local initiatives, charities and community-related activities.
As well as delivering social benefits, we believe that greater community engagement increases employee commitment and provides real-life development opportunities. This ethos is an integral part of our award-winning graduate training scheme, which supports YoungMinds, working to prevent mental illness and to care for those with a mental health problem.
In addition, our local offices provide support to worthwhile causes in their communities, from school and charity events to independent theatres and arts fairs.
In 2018, Savills UK expanded its work with councils and town centre management organisations across the country on Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), initiatives aimed at the regeneration of city and town centres to create welcoming, safe, clean and attractive environments.
Our people ran, swam, rode, trekked, baked, sky dived, camped and volunteered for many different charities in 2018. Collectively Savills UK and its employees made contributions to charities in excess of £1 million.*
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Our local offices choose to provide support to worthwhile causes in their communities, from school and charity events to independent theatres and arts fairs. Savills UK supports local events for the Royal Highland Education Trust with annual sponsorship and attendance at fundraising events.
Our rural teams work with The Prince’s Countryside Fund (PCF) to deliver the Prince’s Farm Resilience Programme (PFRP). This is a series of workshops designed to help UK farmers increase their resilience to current pressures whilst helping them identify options to grow their business.
In the UK, we support nationally two major charities, LandAid and Young Minds. LandAid is the charity of the UK’s property sector, our donations each year helps by providing safe and affordable accommodation to the homeless.
We expect our service partners to comply with our supply chain health and safety standards, to be proactive in offering employment and training opportunities to local businesses and people and to engage with local community projects.
* In reality, our collective contribution has been far greater as it has been possible to record some but not all the contributions, both financial and time, donated by employees in pursuit of their charitable giving.