About Us

Community

Our policy is to:

  • Make a positive contribution and show consideration to our neighbours and the community in which we operate.
  • Support local organisations through charitable giving.
  • Promote an open two way dialogue with local communities and stakeholders.
  • Support local schools and learning institutions through training and organisations such as STEM TEAM Essex (formerly SETpoint).
  • To encourage our employees to become involved in voluntary projects and groups, within the community.

Highights:

  • e2v supports 10 core global charitable organisations associated with its major facilities through direct donations and money raised by employees and made 54 additional separate donations in matched support of employee fundraising activities.
  • e2v supports the Whoosh! Learning Centre, based at our headquarters in Chelmsford and which has nearly 4,000 members attending courses.
  • e2v supports the e2v foundation, a charitable investment fund, run by Essex Community Foundation.
  • e2v is engaged with and strives to play an active part in the communities in which our people live and work.
  • Our charity committee has maintained its global reach by supporting charities local to our global facilities, both encouraging and supporting voluntary activity and fundraising by employees.

e2v employees have been engaged in a number of fundraising events: including the selling of unwanted IT equipment in Grenoble and New York and supporting a MacMillan Coffee Morning across the UK sites where employees baked cakes to raise money in support of MacMillan cancer care nurses. In addition e2v donated £6,600 (2010: £5,800) in 54 separate matched funding awards, where employees had led money raising activities for their chosen charities.

in 2011 e2v added £25,000 to the e2v foundation. This was eligible for a 50% uplift under the Government’s Grassroots Endowment Challenge thereby bringing the total added to £37,500 and the fund total to c. £140,000. In accordance with Essex Community Foundation rules, £5,000 of the investment return generated was released and donated by the Charities’ Committee to good causes in the region.

We also help our local communities by encouraging young people’s interest in business, science and technology, working with national programmes such as Young Enterprise and STEM TEAM.

e2v continues to support the Whoosh! Learning Centre, run in partnership with Essex County Council and the Learning and Skills Council. Whoosh! is open to both e2v employees and all members of the local community and has nearly 4000 (2010: 700) members.

 

Supporting the Community

We firmly believe we should play an active part in the communities where our people live and work. e2v has a tradition of encouraging charitable donations, and of supporting voluntary activity and fundraising by employees. We have a Charity Committee, with a global reach, which coordinates these activities. We also help our local communities by encouraging young people’s interest in business, science and technology, working with national programmes such as Young Enterprise and STEM TEAM.
 

The e2v’s Charities Committee meets once a month to review requests for support made to the Company. The committee examines appeals and makes recommendations based on the following criteria:

  • It should be a charitable activity based locally to one of its facilities, e.g. hospitals, children''s clubs, schools etc., thereby establishing local links
  • It should have a wide appeal to our workforce
  • It should be beneficial to people in the community, encouraging education, health and involvement

How we help