Corporate Community Involvement (CCI)
We believe we have a responsibility to be actively involved in the community, enabling as many people as possible to benefit from learning and the development of skills. Therefore we designed a programme around the following five areas:

Celebration
Wherever possible we mark people’s success not only because they deserve it, but because their achievement might encourage others. We continue to have schemes that identify and honour the best in every field. We also enable employers, livery companies, students and others to support and extend these schemes to award excellent individuals through prizes, grants or bursaries. City & Guilds Medals for Excellence is a good example of how people’s skills are recognised, appreciated and celebrated.

See Medals for Excellence >

Access
Providing financial assistance and special support for access to learning for people who might otherwise not be able to participate. We’ve established a fund to offer bursaries that will reduce the financial burden and we also consider applications for additional support for those that face other barriers to learning such as, disability, isolation, inadequate basic skills or the need to provide child care. 

See Access Bursary -

Research
In partnership with other bodies, we commission specific research projects and notify Corporate Members, livery companies and others of research proposals that may be of interest to them and which they might be prepared to support. We’ll organise seminars, publish research findings and work with other agencies in the field.

Employee Engagement
We have developed an engagement package that will enable our staff to volunteer their time, through an agreed period of ‘paid-for time’ on approved community projects. We consider projects that are put to us by our partners so that they might indirectly benefit from our employee’s expertise.

Support for Endangered Skills
There are a number of rural and other crafts that are under threat of dying out because apprentices are not learning the skills of craft people who are themselves in short supply. We will support and work closely with other organisations that are working to reverse the decline of particular craft skills. We will also seek to secure funding for assessment and certification for these kinds of crafts.