BiP in the Community
BiP takes a great deal of pride in putting CSR at the heart of its operations. Our ethos is that the company has a duty to focus on growth in order to contribute to the greater social good through offering increased employment opportunities to people within our local community in need of skills development.
In addition, we operate a strong ‘Home and Away’ charity support programme, recognising that during these recessionary times our support of charities is more vital than ever.
For 2011-12, our Home Charity is Hazelwood School, located in Glasgow. Hazelwood School is a co-educational, inter-denominational school for children and young people aged from 2-19 years who have varying degrees of sensory impairment. BiP supports the school’s fundraising work with a variety of activities including dress down days, race nights and raffles. As important as the cash raised is, equally worthwhile is the time invested voluntarily by BiP staff to organise and facilitate these activities.
The 2010-11 Home Charity was the Glasgow Old People’s Welfare Association (GOPWA), an organisation dedicated to the relief of loneliness among the elderly. Through a variety of fundraising initiatives and donations, over £20,000 was raised for the charity. This was subsequently increased in order to facilitate the purchase of a new minibus.
Prior to this, BiP helped provide laptop computers and whiteboards for New Struan School, an independent residential and day special school managed by the Scottish Society for Autism; raised funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland, the country’s largest charity for people affected by MS; and donated over £40,000 to support the work of The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice. Our Away Charity programme has enabled BiP to raise funds for a number of worthwhile causes outside of the UK. In recent years we have helped to fund the drilling of a village water-well in Tshifudi, South Africa; provided 400 pairs of shoes for children in Cambodia; and funded the building of a home for a family in poverty in Nepal. We have also provided a village classroom in Kenya and funds to provide its pupils with school books, a community kitchen and a single family home in Peru.
BiP continues to accept its social responsibility through its charity donations and fundraising activities in aid of both the local and wider community and is pleased to consider any request for support from registered charities.
