Royal Mail sweeps the board at payroll giving awards
Royal Mail Group has swept the board at the National Payroll Giving Awards 2007, winning the ‘best re-launch of an existing scheme’ category and being highly commended in the ‘best employer and charity promotion’ , ‘best promotional partnership’ and ‘best overall campaign’ categories. Royal Mail was presented with its award by the Right Honourable Jane Kennedy MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury at a prestigious event hosted at HM Treasury on 17th October. The event was introduced and compared by broadcaster and ‘money saving expert’ Martin Lewis.
Royal Mail Group Ltd has been recognized not only for its scheme but for increasing its overall participation rate by adopting an active approach to Payroll Giving. It has also succeeded in partnering with Charities Trust and Help the Hospices to carry out its Payroll Giving initiative.
The Payroll Giving Awards are designed to showcase the best Payroll Giving schemes from employers in the UK. All applications are marked against specific criteria by a panel of impartial judges; entries are restricted to those employers that have received 2007 Bronze, Silver or Gold Quality Mark Awards.
Commentating on the Award, Kay Allen, Head of Social Policy at Royal Mail Group said:
“The level of take-up of our payroll giving scheme is remarkable and I would like to thank every one of our employees for their continuing support for good causes through payroll giving. Our success in sustaining and growing our involvement in payroll giving is as a result of working with both Charities Trust and Payroll Giving in Action to embed payroll giving in the DNA of our company by engaging our people directly and enabling them to find out more about the scheme in person – and of course their ongoing generosity and willingness to help others who are less fortunate than themselves.”
First launched in 1987, Payroll Giving enables employees to donate to any UK charity straight from their gross salary, giving immediate tax relief. Latest figures show that this year Payroll Giving has distributed almost £90 million to good causes.
