John Lewis Partnership Annual Report and Accounts 2015

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COMMUNITIES REVIEW

We are committed to ensuring the wellbeing of our local communities. We do this by supporting causes that our Partners and customers tell us are important, and by building relationships and investing our time and money in causes where we know we can make a difference, at home and overseas.

Supporting young people

In 2014, we entered into a new partnership with Barnardo’s to support disadvantaged young people. Working with them has enabled us to make a positive impact at a local level, nationwide. To date, we have raised more than £790,000 through a combination of charity products, our Community Matters programme, Partner and customer fundraising, Partner volunteering and through gifts in-kind.

Some of this will support their Early Years intervention work to improve parenting and to give children the opportunity to develop. So far, almost 1,000 Barnardo’s employees have been trained in 220 children services. They estimate that this will reach more than 100,000 families.

We also support young people through Bringing Skills to Life, our free primary education programme. We launched this in 2013, with the ambition of registering 1,000 schools in one year. So far, it has been an incredible success – more than 3,000 schools registered in that time, downloading more than 30,000 free resources. In 2014/15, Partners ran over 1,300 hours’ worth of workshops with children, building their practical skills and developing their imagination.

For our work with young people, we were honoured to win the Charity Times Local Partnership Award and be shortlisted for the Lord Mayors Dragon Award for Local Partnership.

Partner volunteering

John Lewis Partners can volunteer their time with a number of organisations who provide meaningful opportunities – for example through our schools programme, and with Barnardo’s. In 2014/15, we volunteered almost 31,000 hours in the community.

The John Lewis Foundation

As well as investing in communities in the UK, we also support projects that address issues faced by our supplier communities overseas. Following a successful pilot with Geosansar in India, we are rolling out financial literacy training and access to a bank savings account scheme to a further 45 Indian factories over a three year period. The programme will directly benefit 10,800 low-income workers, with almost 100,000 estimated to benefit indirectly.

Working with local charity Care and Fair, the Foundation also funded a new school in an area of India where we source from.

In 2015, the Foundation will continue to address local needs, including capacity building and support for entrepreneurship.

For more on the John Lewis Foundation: www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/ourcommunities

Supporting Barnardo’s

The strong fundraising and volunteering engagement of Partners and the shared ethos of the John Lewis management team have both ensured the success of our charity partnership to date.

JOHN LEWIS HAS AND CONTINUES TO BE A FANTASTIC SUPPORTER OF BARNARDO’S WORK WITH VULNERABLE AND DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN THE UK THEY’VE MADE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION IN HELPING CHANGE CHILDREN’S LIVES FOR THE BETTER.

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