Silver Jubilee Big Tick Winners

In our Jubilee Year we wanted to recognise - with a special Silver Big Tick - those long term sustainable Business partnerships which have flourished in a neighbourhood, on a key social issue, with a charity or voluntary organisation for ten years or more - many pre-dating the launch of our Awards for Excellence in 1997.

It is a real tribute to our member companies that so many of these programmes have helped to pioneer issues and impact where, because of the long term support of the business, innovation and insight has been achieved which other companies can share.

• Airbus - 18 years of community action and fundraising in North Wales through "Charity Challenge"
• Allen & Overy - 20 years of support for schools and colleges in Tower Hamlets
• Avon Cosmetics - 15 years of tackling breast cancer with the "Avon Breast Cancer Crusade"
• B&Q - 5,000 community projects supported since 1995 with "You Can Do It Awards" and "Better Neighbour Grants"
• Bovis Lend Lease - 11 year partnership with Jobcentre Plus getting 9,000 people into construction jobs
• Bradford & Bingley - 10 years of helping the homeless in partnership with Shelter
• British Land- founder partner of the West Euston Partnership in 1984
• BT- 21 years of support for ChildLine raising more than £15m and helping more than 2 million children
• Cadbury Schweppes - 150 years of involvement in education at local, regional and national level
• Centrica - tackling fuel poverty since 1995
• Charlton Athletic - supporting communities in SE London and Kent since returning to "The Valley" in 1992
• Citi - 25 years of support for Junior Achievement - Young Enterprise now in 48 countries
• Cunninghame Housing Association - regenerating communities in Ayrshire since 1997 through the "More Than Just a Landlord" programme
• Deutsche Bank - kick-starting the careers of young people in the arts since 1993 with the "Pyramid Awards"
• DHL - promoting "Trucks and Child Safety" in schools since 1989
• Diageo - over 25 years of tackling long term unemployment through "Tomorrow's People"
• DLA Piper - a decade of supporting young entrepreneurs through their partnership with the Prince's Trust
• Dwr Cymru Welsh Water - a decade of helping Welsh school-children to "Live and Learn with Water"
• E.ON UK - supporting older people in partnership with Age Concern since 1990
• EMI - promoting music and the arts in schools through the Music Sound Foundation since 1996
• Experian - 12 years of working with key partners in Nottingham to improve the quality of life for its people
• GlaxoSmithKline - "Positive Action" on HIV/AIDS has reached millions of people in 55 countries since 1992
• Herbert Smith LLP - 10 years of community action in Tower Hamlets and Whitechapel
• IBM - a decade of "KidSmart" delivering 920 Early Learning Centres in UK play-schools and nurseries
• Jaguar - founder and continued Chair of the Foleshill Business Forum supporting communities across Coventry since 1997
• John Laing - 1993 founding partner and continued supporter of the National Communities Resource Centre, Trafford Hall, offering training and support to people on low incomes
• KeyMed- improving road safety and saving lives in Southend since 1994
• Lloyd's - working to tackle social issues in East London since 1987
• Manchester City FC -supporting the people of Manchester for 21 years through "City in the Community"
• National Grid - a decade of providing education, skills training and jobs for young people at risk of exclusion and for ex-offenders
• Nationwide - supporting the care of cancer patients through a partnership with Macmillan since 1993
• Nortel NI - a decade of support for Young Enterprise Northern Ireland
• PricewaterhouseCoopers - improving the lives of the young people and communities of Southwark for 15 years
• PRUPIM - 14 year partnership with Crime Concern empowering young people to make communities safer
• Red Dragon - 10 years of fundraising and community action through "Help a South Wales Child"
• Royal Mail - has been producing educational films and resources for more than thirty years
• RWE npower- 15 years of working with the Federation of Disability Sport Organisations
• ScottishPower - ScottishPower Learning has improved the skills and the employability of more than 13,000 young people since 1996
• Tata Consultancy Services - bringing education to young people in Sevalaya, India since 1988
• Tate & Lyle - more than 25 years of support for education and health in Newham
• UBS - 23 years working with the communities of Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets
• United Utilities - 20 year partnership with Groundwork and 10 years of support for Wigan Education Business Partnership