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TNT Charity and Community
Our approach
Our strategy Our strategy is to develop mutually beneficial partnerships with charitable organisations that focus on the personal development of young people and those whose success depends on efficient transport networks. A key element of our CSR strategy is the concerted effort made each year to generate positive press coverage for the charities we support. Support for youth charities As a dynamic young company TNT has an established reputation for investing in support for young people, embracing a wide range of educational and charitable initiatives for both the able and less able members of the youth community. TNT Express is a major supporter of the Wooden Spoon, a charity that funds projects for children and young people who are physically, mentally or socially disadvantaged within the UK. Wooden Spoon is the official charity of the British Rugby Union and its patron is the Princess Royal. Since adopting the Wooden Spoon as its chosen charity in 1997, TNT is acknowledged as the largest single benefactor having raised £2 million, in cash alone, over the past nine years. In 2007 TNT gave a record-breaking donation of £300,620 - the largest single donation the company has ever generated and the biggest ever received by the children's charity in its 24-year history. Supporting the Spoon encourages teamwork as employees unite behind a common goal and generates healthy competition between depots, offices and regions. TNT has introduced its 'Seeing is Believing' initiative that enables employees to visit Spoon projects and see how the money they generate is used to help children and young people. The relationship with Wooden Spoon also helps generate a great deal of positive media coverage in trade, national and regional media. In addition to raising these substantial donations TNT provides in kind support for many Spoon events across the UK through distribution and transport services. TNT also actively promotes membership of, and involvement with, the charity to its suppliers, business partners and customers. Our partnership with the Duke of Edinburgh's Award provides us with an invaluable opportunity to demonstrate the values of our own company and, at the same time, those of the Award. The Award provides an exciting challenge for young people helping develop excellent team working and other leadership skills. They benefit from being involved in a most worthwhile personal development programme. In 1989 a 19 year relationship between The Duke of Edinburgh's Award and leading express and logistics company TNT UK began when the Award's then Northwest Regional Director, Alan Millward, approached TNT for sponsorship after being inspired by a procession of trucks rumbling past his office to the company's Ramsbottom Depot. Initially TNT Company Chairman Gerry Ginty was tasked with locating a vehicle - in this case a 12.5 ton van - for the Award's use. Over the following two years TNT became so impressed with the Award that in 1991 it stepped up its commitment, providing a brand new, 44-feet long, purpose-built promotional trailer, which was presented to HRH Prince Edward and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh. Complete with a popular climbing wall, the trailer was presented at Windsor. The vehicle - and now its successor - travel more than 40,000 miles every year promoting the Award, and in 2003 was at events attended by over 750,000 people. The trailer is present at over 50 high profile events, including the recent Outdoors show, Three Counties Show and the Highland Games. The trailer provides wonderful publicity for the Award while promoting TNT. In 1992 TNT took its place among an elite group of British blue-chip companies as Charter Founder Members, pledging a six figure sum in cash and kind to the Award every year. "Our support for The Duke of Edinburgh's Award fits perfectly with our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and to helping both our own staff and young people in the wider community to fulfill their potential," says Tom Bell, Managing Director of TNT Express Services UK and Ireland. "As well as benefiting our staff, our Charter Founder Membership enables us to use Award events for entertaining and networking. And we highly value this aspect of our relationship," says Bob Black, Chief Operating Officer TNT Express Services UK. Tom Bell adds: "We encourage our employees to gain new skills and achieve their maximum potential which pays serious business dividends so we were very impressed that The Duke of Edinburgh's Award mirrored that approach amongst young people in the community." The company uses the Award to help its young employees become enterprising leaders and develop excellent team working skills. "Much of our success has been achieved by promoting people from within the company under our 'home grown timber' policy and the Award enables us to lay firm foundations for longevity of employment whilst providing a first class method of developing managers," says Tom. One of TNT's strongest attributes is its ability and willingness to provide expertise and its 'can do' approach to charitableand educational bodies. TNT supports Transaid, an organisation which contributes transport and logistics support to help the development of poorer countries. Closer to home, TNT also supports UK based initiatives such as Crucial Crew Road Safety events that raises road safety awarness amongst thousands of school children around the country. TNT gives logistical help to the No Way Trust - a charity that seeks to dissuade children and young people from a life of crime via a series of mobile roadshows providing an insight into what life is like in prison. Local Charity & Community Support
All TNT Express sites across the UK are actively involved with initiatives in their local communities. TNT has consistently supported a range of projects in the areas of education, health, sport and the environment. Some typical examples are outlined below:
Health
Environment
Sport
On the international stage, TNT Express Services UK & Ireland is wholly supportive of the partnership that its parent company TNT N.V. has with the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) entitled 'Moving the World'. TNT in the UK & Ireland participate in an annual global fundraising initiative called 'Walk the World' - a series of sponsored walks in 63 countries, through 24-time zones in one 24-hour period. The inaugural walk in 2004 saw up to 3,000 TNT employees, family and friends in the UK & Ireland raise £70,000 towards a worldwide total of £500,000. In 2007, TNT in the UK & Ireland generated more than £30,000 in a 7 day period which the company designated as "Fight Hunger Week". Employees the length and breath of the UK and Ireland raised funds to help feed and educate thousands of school children in Tanzania. TNT also provides help in kind and deploys key personnel as volunteers to assist the WFP in its work. This was evidenced in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami in late 2004. TNT Express Services UK & Ireland employees were seconded to Indonesia to help with the WFP aid effort.
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