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Charitable giving

As a Group, we also support the following overseas and international charitable causes with relevance to our industry.

Engineers Against Poverty is a UK-based international development NGO committed to producing practical policies and solutions to support the alleviation and ending of world poverty.

Transparency International is a global civil society organisation. It plays a lead role in improving the lives of millions around the world, by building momentum for the anti-corruption movement, raising awareness and diminishing apathy and tolerance of corruption, as well as devising and implementing practical actions to address it.

As well as the other corporate donations - including CRASH - outlined in Building Better Communities and Building Better Lives, we actively encourage employees to raise funds for the Group's preferred charity by offering matched funding to groups or individuals.

Overseas, our US businesses Heery and Balfour Beatty Construction US have programmes in place to support local charities including United Way, WalkAmerica and Habitat for Humanity.

Charity of the Year

In 2005 and 2006, Balfour Beatty raised over £220,000 for our Charity of the Year, Marie Curie Cancer Care. Through our charities committee, our employees selected NCH, the nationwide children's charity, to support in 2007 and 2008.

Support criteria

Because we receive many requests for donations, sponsorship or employee participation every year and, much as we may wish to, we cannot support them all, we select two to three preferred charities or causes per year. This enables us to focus our fundraising efforts where they can make the greatest difference.

The charities we support are selected by our charities committee which comprises employees from around the Group. The policy developed by the committee is to support charities which:

• Are nominated by our employees (particularly those which have national representation);
• Have an affiliation to the construction industry; or relate to specific communities where we have local involvement.

If you would like to contact us regarding becoming a preferred charity, and you fulfil the above criteria, please email your details to info@balfourbeatty.com.

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