Charity of the year

BAA Heathrow staff have chosen Age Concern and Help the Aged to be its Charity of the Year for 2009. The campaign, called ‘Connecting Communities’, aims to raise £200,000 for Age Concern and Help the Aged through staff fund-raising events, passenger collections and promotions. The money raised will go towards vital local community programmes such as their volunteer befriending services in the Hounslow area.

Age Concern and Help the Aged were selected as Heathrow’s charity of the year by BAA Heathrow’s 5,000 staff.  The initiative is a key part of BAA’s community relations programme.

The partnership will run for the whole of 2009. BAA Heathrow’s first Charity of the Year was Marie Curie Cancer Care in 2008, when staff and passengers more than doubled the original target of £100,000, raising £240,000.

Further information about Age Concern can be found at ageconcern.org and Help the Aged at helptheaged.org.uk

For more information, please email heathrowcommunityrelations@baa.com or call 020 8745 5791.

Community and Environment Awards

The Heathrow Community & Environment Awards are a source of support for schools, voluntary organisations, community groups and local authorities.

There are two types of schemes available: 1) The Small Grants Scheme which awards grants of up to £2,500 six times per year and 2) The Large Grants Scheme which awards grants of over £2,500 and up to £50,000 up to three times a year.

Under each scheme, grants will be made to exciting local community projects focusing on five themes: ‘reduce, re-use, recycle’; ‘climate change and energy’; ‘protecting and enhancing our environment’; ‘bringing communities together’ and ‘developing skills’.

For more information about the awards, please click on the relevant link below:

Link to Small grants awards
Link to Large Grants Awards

Passenger collections

There are coin collectors situated around Heathrow’s terminals for donations of spare currency and this money also goes towards our Charity of the Year and to the BAA Heathrow Community and Environment Awards.

You may also see these other selected charities collecting money around the Heathrow terminals from time to time:

Comic Relief:  comicrelief.org/
Children in Need: bbc.co.uk/pudsey/
Poppy Appeal: poppy.org.uk/

Matched funding

BAA Heathrow actively supports employees in their fundraising efforts. Financial support is made to employees engaged in their own charitable fundraising.