Scott Bader Company - Rural Community Support
EMRAF Rural Charter Award 2005
Scott Bader Company, a polymer manufacturer, plays a leading role in the local rural community. Its activities have a geographical bias due to its rural location in the village of Wollaston in Northamptonshire. It donates financial support, time, equipment, facilities and the enthusiasm of its committed senior staff and the many other members of its 300+ UK employees. In 2004 it donated 26.1 percent (£217,048) of its pre-tax profits to charitable causes and in 2005 won the EMRAF Rural Charter Award for its work in the rural community.
Impact
- £10,000 to CAN (the anti-drug charity) – the first of two years funding towards the salary of a Children’s worker in the villages.
- £10,000 to Wollaston Sports Association towards the cost of a new building with improved changing and toilet facilities. The building is used by the football, cricket & tennis clubs.
- £2,000 to the Pastoral Counselling Service for the purchase of equipment.
- £200 toward the Young Enterprise awards.
- £3,000 to Service Six in Wellingborough (teenage pregnancy advice & support) – second year funding for a young person support worker.
- £3,100 to the Hope Project towards their Festival week.
- £5,000 to the Northamptonshire Society for Autism – third year funding to the Assert project that which helps train young Autistic people to enable them to work.
- £6,000 to Kettering Centre for the Unemployed – first of three years funding toward core costs (salaries, etc.).
- £7,000 to SOFA WISE project, which released £70,000 in landfill tax credits and provided the main funding source for the first two years.
- £950 to Ecton Village Primary School for the purchase of new outdoor equipment.
- 23 small grants totalling £585 to local schools and charities to support fundraising activities (raffles and prizes etc.).
- In 2003 the Company donated £217,048 (26% of its pre-tax profits) and in 2002, the contribution was £173,845 (35% of its pre-tax profits) to local not-for-profit organisations.
- In 2003 the Company’s total commitment was £217,048, which was 26% of the pre-tax profits. In 2002, the contribution was £173,845 which was 35% of the pre-tax profits.
- Leased a piece of land to the Parish Council and donated £12,000+ to convert it into a ‘Pocket Park’.
Sponsor of the EMRAF Rural Charter Award
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