Charity & Community
We believe in giving back.
Our Charity Partners
Wiltshire Treehouse
The Wiltshire Treehouse is our choice of charity for 2026. The charity offers advice and creative programmes that support the social and emotional well-being of bereaved children and young people. They offer a relaxed, safe and inclusive environment in which people can explore and grow to understand their grief. At Wiltshire Treehouse children can meet others, share stories, make a connection, and help each other.
They support families living or attending school within Swindon or Wiltshire, who have been affected by a bereavement. The charity provides telephone advice and support to parents/carers, helping adults to understand their child and how to best support them. Specialist group work programmes, which are free to families with the cost covered by their fundraising. One to one support. Advice and training for professionals, helping schools and other organisations to support the bereaved children they work with. Referrals for more specialised help.
CALM
The Cancer and Leukaemia Movement (CALM) was our choice of charity for 2025.
CALM is the Swindon children’s cancer and leukaemia movement. The registered charity was formed in 1984, run by parents who have all experienced having a child diagnosed with cancer. With their dedicated team, CALM provides families with day trips, parties and events, emotional support, caravan holidays and financial support during and after treatment.
We raise money for our charities through our annual golf day and other yearly sponsored events. We also make donations on behalf of our clients so that together, we can make a difference.
We raise money for our charities through our annual golf day and other yearly sponsored events. We also make donations on behalf of our clients so that together, we can make a difference.
If there’s a charity or cause you feel would benefit from our support, please let us know so we can consider them. We believe that by giving back (whenever we can) we build a stronger, better future for everyone.
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Community
As well as making donations to our charity partners, we believe in giving back to the local community.
We are proud supporters of Wroughton Youth FC and are sponsors of the Wroughton Warriors and the Wroughton Witches. We would love to hear from you if you run a sports team or local event and need a sponsor.
We also have regular involvement with the Swindon Night Shelter and Wroughton Parish council. We hold regular community centre drop-in sessions to support residents with financial questions. These sessions help people who may not want to go through the entire advice process, have one or two questions they’d like to ask, or just want to talk to someone about their financial concerns.
We also support local schools with career days and financial education sessions. These sessions prepare students for life after school/university while answering any questions they may have about money. We maintain that financial education is essential in giving young people the right tools to help them achieve their future financial goals.
Working with The Berks & Wilts Canal Trust
We also support The Berks & Wilts Canal Trust, who are restoring 70 miles of canal & towpath from Melksham to Abingdon for the benefit of local communities, wildlife and leisure. You might have seen our signs next to Waitrose Swindon.
Environment
We want to do everything we can to preserve our planet for future generations. We are proud to be carbon neutral business and work with Carbon Neutral Britain, which plants 30 trees a month on our behalf across their global projects, helping to reduce our carbon footprint and the environmental impact of our business.
While we are incredibly proud to be a carbon neutral business, we wanted to go further and ensure we also had a positive impact on the biodiversity in our local area. That’s why we partner with Avon Needs Trees, a local environmental charity who buy, plant and manage permanent woodland in the southwest.
Since their formation in 2019, they have had two incredibly successful projects in Wiltshire, purchasing two sites of 47 acres, planting and caring for 22,000 native trees with the help of hundreds of volunteers from local and surrounding communities.
