What it means to be a Benefact Group Company
We are a Benefact Group Company
Being part of the Benefact Group means we’re driven by something bigger. We use our expertise to give customers the [add what your customers know you for here] they need. But the results of our work go so much further.
We turn business success into real impact by giving all available profits to good causes. Measuring our achievements by what we give – and not what we keep – is what makes us A Benefact Group Company.
Tools & talking points
Everything you need to talk about who we are, how we give and the difference we make.
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Benefact Group by the numbers
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40+ specialist financial businesses across 3 continents
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Over 10,000 charities supported
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3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*
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Over £250m donated to good causes since 2014
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As a Group, we’ve averaged 3,500+ hours (500+ days) of volunteering time from colleagues since 2023
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Over £2m given via colleagues of the Benefact Group over the past 10 years (including fundraising and personal grant donations)
*Source: Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-2026
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At a glance
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The Group gives all available profits to charity. This is something that drives us everyday.
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We’re ambitious for growth. The more successful we are in business, the more we can invest to grow, and the more we can give to good causes, making important changes to those who need it most.
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We are owned by a charity (The Benefact Trust) which awards our available profits to a wide range of good causes.
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The companies are all specialists in their fields.
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How we give
The more the businesses in our Group grow, the more we can give. It’s this purpose that drives our success every day.
Across the Group we give in four main ways:
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Our Group
We give directly to a wide range of charities through a range of donation programmes. These include Pay it Forward – an innovative programme that invites charities tell us who to fund and Movement for Good where anyone can nominate a charity for a donation.
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Our Colleagues
MyGiving is our colleague driven programme, where individuals donate time and money through company grants and fundraising matching, to causes that are personally important.
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Our Businesses
Many of the businesses that make up the Group have their own giving programmes, supporting causes that mean the most to their communities and customers.
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Our Trust
Our charitable owner, the Benefact Trust, independently award grants to a range of charities.
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Where we give – the giving map
The Giving Map shows the charities we’ve donated to through the Benefact Movement for Good programme and our Pay it Forward programme.
People are always interested in where we’ve given near them and it’s a great conversation starter – you simply type in the postcode and it will show you all the charities in that area. Watch this video to see how it works.
How to use the Giving Map – video coming soon
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Talk about the Benefact Group Movement for Good
The Movement for Good Awards is our very popular annual programme of giving donating over £1 million. It’s made up of three main parts:
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£1,000 draws
Anyone (our brokers, customers, colleagues, friends, family etc) can nominate their favourite charity to be in the draw to win £1,000. The more nominations a charity gets, the greater their chance of winning.
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Special draws
We run short term ‘special draws’ around a chosen theme a few times a year – donations of £5,000 are awarded
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Large grants
We also make larger grants through the programme. The way we do this changes from time to time. Visit the website to find out more.
The Movement for Good Awards programme is a great opportunity to engage with family and friends through sharing in your WhatsApp groups, chatting in a cafe or at the school gate. We’ve seen great engagement and nominations through these routes and they’re a really easy way to spread the word.
Ask your network to nominate now.
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Charity Support
We don’t only help charities with donations, we also support them with their own fundraising activities through offering free resources.
We run regular webinars and collaborate with sector experts to bring busy fundraisers the latest info they need to get the most out of their fundraising efforts.
- If you’re chatting to someone who fundraises, or is close to a charity who may like to hear more about our fundraising resources, let them know there’s great, free, fundraising help just a click away!
- The webinars are rated very highly by those who attend – we get lovely comments such as ‘This was better than any paid training I’ve ever been on!’
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Videos
Benefact Group brand video
Our brand video is coming in early October – check back soon.
Browse our video catalogue
Video is a great way to bring the impact of our purpose to life when you’re talking about the Benefact Group. Browse our video catalogue to find the right video to support your conversations.
Focus on nature with the National Trust
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PPT slides: About Benefact Group
Use these slides in your presentations when you need to talk about the Benefact Group.
Slides to follow.
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Benefact Group’s climate position
The Benefact Group is committed to making a positive environmental impact. We have set an ambition to become ‘Net Zero’ by 2040 which means:
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Measuring
Publishing an annual footprint including our energy use for example, but also footprinting the Group’s equity investments which are 82% lower than the general fund benchmark.
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Decarbonising
Which means reducing our impact wherever we can. We’re moving into more energy efficient office spaces, more of our fleet is electric and we’ve launched an electric car lease scheme for employees.
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Offsetting
For carbon we can’t reduce quite yet we believe investing in projects overseas which deliver a positive carbon benefit is a good thing.
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Giving
This is quite distinctive for our Group, we have given more than £680,000 to climate and environment charities through our Movement for Good Programme. This includes researching the climate impact on historic properties with English Heritage or funding the rewilding of a site in Somerset with Heal Rewilding.
Take the opportunity to talk about:
- The environmental initiatives in your business
- How you are reducing the impact of our offices
- How you are supporting customers reduce their impact through advice, support and new products and services
Resources
- Read our Positive Climate Action Report on Benefact Group
- See our full climate reporting in our Annual Report and Accounts
- You can find details of all the climate charities we have funded through Movement for Good by visiting the Giving Map. (Simply toggle the hide/show buttons to reveal the Environment and Climate charities)
Social media
Follow, like and share our posts to help spread the word about the difference we make.
Help amplify our impact
By engaging with Benefact Group on social media, you can help us reach more people, raise awareness of our purpose, and showcase the positive difference we’re making together.
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Every interaction helps extend our reach and amplify our impact.