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Social (continued)
Our Communities
We provide an active programme
of charitable support and
promote foreign language
learning actively through school
and university partnership
programmes including the RWS
Campus and the RWS-Brode Scholarship
Programme.
Our philanthropic initiatives have
been consolidated under the new RWS
Foundation. Donations by RWS and the RWS
Foundation this year amounted to about
£467,000. RWS encourages its colleagues
to volunteer in the community and 昀椀ve
working days can be taken annually to get
involved in charitable initiatives. Over 800
volunteering days were taken in FY23.
SUPPORTING HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS
We are thankful that our teams around the world remain
safe.
It has been very important to us as a company to support
wider humanitarian e昀昀orts and we are immensely
proud of all the work our colleagues are doing, as well as
volunteering personal time to support people a昀昀ected by
con昀氀ict and extreme weather conditions.
Our colleagues, through The RWS Foundation Türkiye
Appeal, raised over £7,500 to support the people a昀昀ected
by the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. Their
donations went to the International Red Cross ‘Türkiye
appeal fund’ as well as Ahbap (a local Turkish charity) to
enable these organisations to ensure that the people
a昀昀ected had access to essential supplies, food, water, as
well as 昀椀rst aid and shelter.
The Foundation also made further donations to the DEC
Earthquake appeal, UNICEF, the UN’s children’s fund, Ahbap
and the International Red Cross.
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