Corporate Responsibility
- Our policies
- Our targets
- Environment
- Marketplace
- Workplace
- Community
- WHSmith Trust
- Grant making activity
- Board of Trustees
- Trustee Meeting Dates
- Contact Details
- Grants to local charities in which members of staff are directly involved
- Supporting employee volunteering - Volunteers in Schools
- Supporting employee volunteering - Community challenges
- Supporting employee volunteering - Marathons
- Corporate Responsibility reports
Progress and targets
2010/11 Targets |
Progress |
Future Targets |
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Promote Literacy |
Promote literacy through the NYRP for families, working with over 3,000 people by 2013. |
ongoing | During 2010/11, over 200 families took part in courses in 14 schools. |
Promote literacy through the NYRP for families, working with over 3,000 people by 2013. |
Charity Products |
Continue to support good caused through our CR approach. |
ongoing | Sales of charity cards, gifts and calendars continue to raise funds for a range of good causes. |
Continue to support good causes through our CR approach. |
Community Investment |
Continue to invest 1% of pre-tax profits in the community, through donations of cash, employee time and gifts in kind. |
achieved | Over one per cent of pre-tax profits invested in community projects. |
Continue to invest 1% of pre-tax profits in the community, through donations of cash, employee time and gifts in kind. |
Continue to build on the success of the WHSmith Trust Schools Giveaway and Books for Hospitals programmes. |
achieved | WHSmith vouchers donated to over 150 store-nominated schools across the UK during 2010/11. Book donations made to eleven hospitals during 2010/11. |
By 2013, donate WHSmith vouchers to 500 store-nominated schools across the UK (from 2010 levels). By 2013, make book donations to 30 hospitals (from 2010 levels). |
Key

- Achieved

- Ongoing

- Not achieved