Working with the GUS Trust
One of the big changes this year has been the closing to new applications
of the GUS Charitable Trust, which was the principal vehicle for cash
giving in GUS plc. The Trust was funded via an annual donation from GUS,
the amount being based on the Group’s profits and paid effectively
a year in arrears, so the donation from 2005/06 funded projects in this
financial year.
The effect of this change has been a fall in recorded levels of charitable
giving for Home Retail Group between 2006 and 2007, as the Trust monies
have been used up and no new donations made.
In the year to 3 March 2007, the GUS Trust made awards totaling £336,000
for projects sponsored by Home Retail Group. Major awards and highlights
were as follows:
| Help
the Hospices Information Service |
£65,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund (WWF), support to research,
design and publish a software cost model application for forest
managers |
£50,000 |
| The National Library for the Blind to research
the development of a website for visually impaired children |
£30,000 |
| Marie Curie Cancer Care, in support of Homebase’s
25th anniversary celebrations |
£25,000 |
| Marie Curie Cancer Care education initiative: ‘mini
pots of care’ |
£25,000 |
The installation of two wind turbines to provide
energy from renewable sources at:
- The Eden Project in Cornwall
- Dunseverick Primary School, N Ireland (winners of an eco-schools
competition organized in conjunction with the environment charity,
Encams)
|
£16,000 |
| The Retail Trust, in support of their work within
the retail field |
£10,000 |
| In support of a colleague who visited Kashmir to
help re-build a village where his family lived, which had been devastated
by landslides. |
£2,000 |
The community programme in future years will be financed through direct
contributions from Home Retail Group recorded and spent in the relevant
year.
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