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Strategic report Governance Accounts
39
www.easyJet.com
• Refugee and migrant crisis, September 2015 – The two-week
on-board collection raised over £395,000. This helped Unicef's
work with children affected by the crisis in Syria and
neighbouring countries. Donations will provide life-saving
supplies such as clean water and medicine, after an estimated
more than two million Syrian children have been forced to
abandon their homes.
Charity Committee
easyJet has a Charity Committee made up of airline employees
which provides support, funded by the Company, to charitable
activities by the Company's employees or to charities which are
important to staff. These tend to be smaller charities in the areas
where easyJet's employees live.
This year the Committee has made 138 awards of flight vouchers
or financial donations, each to the value of £250 or €300. These
donations, reflecting the priorities of easyJet's staff, have most
often been made to health charities, in particular cancer
charities, and organisations which support children.
Supporting local communities
easyJet wants to make a positive contribution in the communities
in which it operates. This is particularly important to the
Company's employees who also live in these areas.
easyJet already has strong links around its head office in Luton
and it is also identifying partner organisations which could help
easyJet to make a larger contribution in specific local areas,
starting with Connecting Enterprising Women in the Luton area.
The Luton community around easyJet's head office
easyJet's links are particularly strong in the Luton area, where
a large number of employees are based. The airline's first flight
20 years ago was from Luton Airport and easyJet continues
to proudly call Luton its home.
easyJet is a long-term supporter of Luton Town Football Club
and in the 2014/15 football season easyJet was the main shirt
sponsor of the team. The Company has since refocused its work
with Luton Town by providing funding for the team's children's
sport project, which also helps the club to access additional
match funding from the national football associations. The Luton
Town 'easyJet Free School Visit' project offers every primary
school in Luton and Bedfordshire a free physical education
session with the club. Additionally, with easyJet's support
the club has recently extended this to offer female coaching
sessions at every high school and further education college
in Bedfordshire.
easyJet has also continued to be a patron of Love Luton, an
organisation which seeks to promote and improve the town.
Connecting Enterprising Women
easyJet has established a new community partnership with
Connecting Enterprising Women, to support the Company's
work to promote and encourage opportunities for women.
The partnership, currently focused on Luton and the surrounding
area, matches female professionals with young women to
provide mentoring support and career guidance.
Initially 10 young women at four local schools have been
matched with easyJet female managers. They meet to
discuss education, personal development and careers.
THE GLOBAL WORK TO END POLIO
Aerobility, which offers disabled people the opportunity to
fly small aircraft and participate in aviation activities, is a
charity which has resonance within easyJet's pilot community,
and they have supported the charity for a number of years.
This year easyJet operated a flight to view the Northern
Lights, to raise funds for the charity. The flight, which was
provided without charge by easyJet, featured on-board live
music and a commentary from entertainer Jon Culshaw,
scientist Dr Helen Czerski and Neil Parker, formerly of the
Royal Greenwich Observatory. All passengers on the flight
were able to view the Aurora Borealis and the flight raised
£18,500 to support Aerobility's work.
AEROBILITY FLIGHT
In 1988 polio was endemic in 125 countries but today it
remains in just two countries – Afghanistan and Pakistan.
easyJet is proud to be a part of the global fight to eradicate
polio forever. In September 2015 it was announced that polio
is no longer endemic in Nigeria. If global immunisation efforts
continue, Unicef believe there is a real chance that polio could
be eradicated by 2019.
Most recently, funds raised through the easyJet on-board
collections have been allocated to purchase approximately
four million doses of polio vaccines for a major polio campaign
in Afghanistan.
©Unicef/mcconnell/thegambia