Collaboration with Supply Chain ensures lasting benefits are delivered by British American Tobacco.

The Hampshire Autistic Society provides support and services to adults of all ages with autism. Their residential education unit in Southampton offers up to 52 week accommodation for 5 students with the surrounding environment being a key beneficiary to residents. Volunteers from British American Tobacco carried out a range of activities to enhance the resident's environment. These included decorating the student's bedrooms, decorating the classroom, laying decking and painting 60 fencing panels, creating a sensory corner and installing new kitchen furniture. Photos showing the transformation of the site can be seen in the adjacent slide show.

Sally Hillyear, Fundraising manager said: " The kitchen has been of great benefit now that some kitchen worktops have been installed for the user's to actually prepare their own food, and a dining room table for them and staff to sit and enjoy meals together. Another huge benefit is the classroom which was completely transformed and is now a perfect learning environment. The resident's like the outdoors and the decking has enabled everyone to enjoy lessons in the garden and barbeque's. We are very grateful to everyone who helped completely transform the house" .

Sparks is a therapeutical workshop that is part of Two Saints Housing Association and since January 2009 has been a social enterprise. This group makes iron work sculptures and recently made a piece which was displayed at the Chelsea Flow Shower as part of the Cases of Change initiative. The piece resembled an iron fence showing the journey of a homeless person and has been incorporated in the grounds of Sparks as part of the challenge. Other tasks that volunteers took part in included: creating an al fresco seating area for the sites coffee shop customers, gardening, relaying bricks and assembling furniture.

The projects undertaken by British American Tobacco will provide lasting benefits to the sites and their service users. When asked about the scale and nature of the project Alex Osbourne, Communications Manager for British American Tobacco said:

 "Completing two projects of this size in one day was a first for us and couldn't have been achieved without the tremendous enthusiasm and commitment from our employee volunteers and our colleagues from Johnson Controls and Warings who collaborated with us on these two projects. Being able to get involved in our local community in both a practical and physical sense is incredibly important fro our employees and to us as a business. It just goes to show what can be achieved through team work, especially when partnered with two such inspiring charities.