Community and Society: Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA)
Charitable Giving and Volunteering
UK Give As You Earn and Matching Payroll Giving
To help UK staff leverage their charitable contributions, we support a payroll giving scheme, Give As You Earn (GAYE) and offer a Matching Payroll Giving plan, which matches contributions to any registered UK charity.
With the GAYE scheme, our people choose how much to give to the charity or charities of their choice. The donations are deducted before taxes are taken out, so individuals effectively pay less while contributing more to the charities they support. And when they enroll in the GAYE scheme, employees automatically become eligible for the company’s Matching Payroll Giving plan. The company matches up to £250 of an individual’s charitable contributions each calendar year, which is a great additional benefit to the charity.
Payroll Giving Quality Mark Award
In the UK, we earned a Payroll Giving Gold Award for 2009. This award recognizes that more than ten percent of UK staff contribute to charitable causes through the company’s Matching Payroll Giving program.
Ireland Raises Money for Children’s Sunshine Home in Dublin
JLL Ireland raised €20,000 for its charity in 2008, the children's Sunshine Home in Dublin. They did this through a number of events: in 2008 Christian Moore and a friend undertook a marathon, cycled part of the Tour de France and climbed Kilimanjaro. Individual staff members sponsored Christian and the company matched their contributions. JLL Ireland also entered a team in a 10K run sponsored by staff members.
Supporting the United Fund of Belgium
Jones Lang LaSalle is one of the longest standing supporters of the United Fund of Belgium. In the early 1970s, Belgium saw the first American multinationals being established in the country. These businesses wanted to contribute to the development of the local communities which had welcomed them, so a number of “pioneer” companies set up a fund to raise money and select appropriate charity projects. In 1972, the United Fund for Belgium was born. For more than 35 years, it has been a success story allocating more than €18 million to over 2000 projects.
Netherlands Support for the Uganda Red Cross
In our Netherlands business, we sponsor and participate in a Dutch initiative to help and support the Uganda Red Cross organization. The objective is to help the Ugandan Red Cross in a feasibility study, prepare investment proposals and help with the implementation of projects.
Supporting Charitable Organizations in Poland
In Warsaw, our team participates in a range of charity activities. Examples include providing financial support to local orphanages by requesting donations from employees for second hand clothes and organizing a ”toy lottery” where our people buy toys and arrange for them to be delivered to the children. We have also provided financial support for a fund that organizes hot meals for children from poor families. Lastly, we have sponsored a drawing competition for children from a neighboring kindergarten, providing geographical atlases as prizes.
Read and Recycle Book Sale
We regularly hold second hand book sales in our Hanover Square and Canary Wharf offices in London to support both our recycling and charitable initiatives. Employees are requested to donate any unwanted books, which are then made available at regular intervals throughout the year for staff to buy. All proceeds are then donated to our charity partner.