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Barclays donates money to support a range of community initiatives. The Group’s activities in education serve as an example of this community investment. The Barclays New Futures scheme provides cash awards, practical resources and professional advice to help schools set up and run community projects that encourage students to develop citizenship skills. We are investing £10 million over ten years in this scheme. In 2002, 138 schools received awards and, since the scheme’s 1995 launch, more than 800 schools have received funding for projects involving 100,000 students and benefiting more than 500,000 people. 
For example in 2002, we granted £20,000 to Tiverton High School in Devon for students to develop a support programme for families going through divorces and break-ups. Students worked together on activities to help them come to terms with changes in their home life. To provide advice and support for those outside the school, they created and ran workshops for children in local primary schools and built a website offering advice to parents. In the US, Barclays Global Investors continued to support several educational programmes for underprivileged young people in San Francisco, and Barclays Capital employees volunteered as mentors to inner-city school pupils in New York. Barclays Africa funded HIV/AIDS awareness programmes for both staff and customers, and initiatives to improve children’s access to education. 
Research undertaken in 2002 confirmed that a key expectation of the public, including our customers, is that Barclays contributes to its local communities. However, many remained unaware of our activities in this area. To address this, the community programme was outlined in a brochure available in all branches. A full-page advert was placed in national newspapers to thank Barclays staff for their activity in the community and to alert the general public to the scale of Barclays community involvement. In addition, transaction receipts, monthly statements and messages on cash machines promoted aspects of the community programme. |
Making Business sense  CSR in the marketplace CSR in the workplace CSR in the community  CSR in the environment |
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