TNT Charity and Community

Our approach

TNT is determined at all times to make a positive impact on society. Our strong relationships with charities such as Wooden Spoon, the United Nations' World Food Programme, Breast Cancer Campaign and the BBC Children In Need provide perfect examples of the benefits of Corporate  Responsibility (CR). Our people value TNT as a caring employer and our customers, suppliers and shareholders recognise our commitment to creating value in society. Our company believes that CR creates true 'win-win' scenarios and helps TNT differentiate itself from other companies in the extremely competitive express delivery market.

The vision, drive and determination of company directors have ensured that CR principles have been transformed into action, with countless TNT employees engaged in numerous activities which encapsulate the values and goals of corporate social responsibility which include:

  • Meeting consumers' demands and business goals by placing society's needs at the heart of commercial strategy
  • Actively engaging in partnerships to tackle disadvantage and create enterprising communities
  • Continually improving, measuring and reporting the impact that business has on the environment, marketplace, workplace and community

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 CR strategy is the concerted effort made each year to generate positive press coverage for the charities we support.

At home in the UK

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 charity's largest single benefactor, having raised in excess of £2.8 million. In 2010 TNT gave a record breaking donation of £305,137 - the largest single donation the company has ever generated and the biggest ever received by the children's charity in its 25-year history.  2011 should see TNT achieve the £3 million fundraising milestone.

Supporting the Spoon encourages teamwork as employees unite behind a common goal and generates healthy competition between depots, offices and regions. TNT has pioneered 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.  Since its launch in 2003, more than 2,500 employees have taken time out of their working day to witness, first hand, how the money generated is put to a maximum effect.

The relationship with Wooden Spoon also provides a positive platform for 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. 

TNT also supports other UK-based charities such as Breast Cancer Campaign and BBC's Children in Need.  In just five "Wear it Pink" fundraising days over the past five years TNT has given well over £75,000 to Breast Cancer Campaign.  In the last two years TNT has been an accredited contact centre for Pudsey Bear and as well as taking pledge from the public above £125,000, employees have also raised a further £27,000 for Children in Need.

On the international stage,, TNT Express Services UK and Ireland is wholly supportive of TNT's global partnership with the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) entitled 'Moving the World'.  TNT in the UK and Ireland participate in an annual global fundraising initiative called Fight Hunger Week where funds are raised to help feed and educate malnourished school children in Tanzania.

In 2011, TNT in the UK and Ireland generated more than £35,000 during Fight Hunger Week and, when you consider a Tanzanian youngster can be given a nourishing meal and e educated for just 7p per day, that money will look after the needs of 1,400 children for a year.  The amount raised will buy a staggering half a million meals for children in East Africa.

TNT also provides help in kind and deploys key personnel as volunteers to assist the WFP in its work all over the world.

And overseas…always making a difference

TNT Express Services give 100% backing to its parent company's global partnership with the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP). TNT support the WFP worldwide with up to €10 million per annum in both cash and help-in-kind.

With its main focus on supporting Wooden Spoon in the UK, TNT Express Services still manages great support for the WFP, raising more than £350,000 in recent years. Each year the company stages a Fight Hunger Week campaign where employees generate cash and raise an awareness of the need to combat global hunger.

TNT in the UK has 'adopted' Tanzania as its partner under the auspices of the WFP's school feeding programme. Each year, employees raise tens of thousands pounds to enable malnourished children in East Africa to benefit from an education and a potentially life-saving daily meal. Just £25 will feed and educate a Tanzanian youngster for a year and it has a truly profound effect on their lives.

In 2010, TNT and the WFP are planning to give selected TNT charity champions, the chance to travel to Tanzania and work alongside the WFP, as part of its evolving global partnership. 

Sport

  • TNT is the main sponsor of Nuneaton Rugby Union Football Club and has been for the past 17 years with a focus on providing funds for the cultivation and training of junior and colt teams.
  • Support of numerous junior and school sports clubs.