Accenture delivers pro bono work for leading UK charities

To strengthen its relationships with community partners, Accenture UK has recently completed new pro bono pilot projects with three UK charities: We Are What We Do, Fairbridge and the NSPCC.

The NSPCC's Helpline development programme has benefited from Accenture's advice on risk assessment, development and planning

The new programme is designed to complement Accenture’s existing voluntary engagements by allowing employees to contribute to the community using their core business skills whilst developing new ones, while community partners can benefit from expert services that they might not otherwise be able to afford.

We Are What We Do, a global movement designed to inspire people to use their everyday actions to change the world, has benefited from Accenture’s advice in defining its vision, mission and objectives. Accenture also conducted an assessment of the charity’s organisation, operations and market-facing propositions.

Accenture has added pro bono services to its ongoing grant giving and fundraising activities with Fairbridge, a national charity that helps severely disadvantaged 13—25 year olds who are not undertaking education, employment or training or are otherwise excluded from society.   A £75,000 grant over three years, awarded by Accenture in 2006 to the charity’s Greater Manchester Centre (one of 16 across the United Kingdom), has been augmented with pro bono work that aims to help Fairbridge’s financial forecasting and improve the way its UK centres use essential systems. Accenture people in the northwest of England also raised £10,000 for Fairbridge from fundraising events including the Great Manchester Run and a Senior Executive dinner.

Finally, Accenture has offered its customer relationship management skills pro bono to the NSPCC - the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The NSPCC's Helplines Development Programme needed advice on the risk assessment, analysis and planning around its implementation plan for its integrated helpline services, which it aims to make available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, via technology media such as telephone, texting and the internet.