Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) / Community Support

Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) / Community Support activities are focused on 3 main areas:

• Charity / Not For Profit Organisations
• Secondary / Further Education
• Business Start Up / Growth

Since 1995, the team at The Urquhart Partnership have helped raise and donated over £250,000 for numerous local and national charities such as VSA, CLAN, Cancer Research UK, Roxburghe House, Aberdeen Foyer, Cornerstone and Home Start.

In addition we have provided thousands of pounds worth of free consultancy support to charities and community organisations. While we will always consider requests for sponsorship or donations, we are only able to support a small fraction of the requests we get, so we tend to support the organisations or charities that mean a little bit more to us personally.

Many members of our staff currently (or have previously) sit the board or committees of several charities / not for profit organisations including VSA, CLAN (Cancer Link Aberdeen and North), Home Start and Celebrate Aberdeen.

Over the last few years we have supported a wide and diverse range of projects including:

	Celebrate Aberdeen A large scale charity / community parade that has taken place in Aberdeen in 2011, 2012 and 2013. More details at www.celebrateaberdeen.org
	EPS Project Sponsors of the EPS Project, which has supported over 40 new start or high growth companies since 2005. More details at www.eps-project.co.uk
	Business Mentoring Scotland The Urquhart Partnership have mentored approximately 40 companies since we first became involved in 2001. More details at www.businessmentoringscotland.co.uk
	The UPprentice The UPprentice was a team based competition organised by the Urquhart Partnership which raised over £140,000 for cancer charity CLAN in just 6 weeks. To find out more about the competition and the many companies who took part and helped raise this fantastic amount of money, visit the UPprentice website.
	The Robert Gordon University Provision of placements and mentoring support to more than a dozen students from Robert Gordon University
	Young Enterprise Grampian The Urquhart Parnership were key sponsors of the Awards Dinner in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, where we have attracted high level judges / speakers such as Doug Richard, Richard Farleigh and Duncan Bannatyne from Dragons Den and Richard Reed from Innocent Drinks.