CareTech Community Services wins Philanthropy Award at the Better Society Awards 2021
CareTech Community Services Ltd, the leading specialist social care and education provider, won the Philanthropy Award at the Better Society Awards 2021 in recognition of the company’s support provided to the Foundation.
The success of CareTech plc at the Awards was recognition of the company’s support of the Foundation, financially and through the in kind support provided to our charity partners by staff from across the company.
CareTech plc donates 2.5% of its pre-tax profits to the Foundation every year as part of its wider commitment to supporting the wider care sector and local communities. In June 2020, the company also made a donation of 1,000,000 company shares to the Foundation.
As a result of this generosity, in its first three years the Foundation supported some 500,000 beneficiaries through its four grant streams.
Thanks to nominations by staff of CareTech plc, the Foundation has donated £74,584 towards the Community Grant and £13,701 towards the Match-Funding Grant, making 101 awards to charities, organisations, individuals and community groups over the previous year.
Over the last two years, CareTech plc staff have also provided 77 days of in-kind support to the Foundation’s programmes. Notably, 70 CareTech staff have supported EY Foundation in providing work experience opportunities to 45 young people across three regions. And, in December 2019, senior CareTech staff in the company’s speciailist services team travelled to Pakistan to support local partners delivering the mental health programme being delivered by the Foundation’s partner at the British Asian Trust, that has now reached 16.8 million people through its social media campaign.
The Awards, held at London’s Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel on 2nd December, saw Andrew Lee – Commercial Director, Kate Landells – Principal of Hill House School, and CareTech Foundation Manager, Tariq Raja, accept the award.