npower - enthuse: engineering the future

A skills shortage in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) based professions affects the UK energy and utilities industry. enthuse is an education and work related activity day that seeks to inspire pupils to consider a STEM career. Strategically focused on students considering their GCSE options, enthuse gives students the chance to be engineers or scientists for the day and develops teamwork and problem solving skills.

npower’s investment:
£57,550 cash, £10,500 employee time

Project Achievements:

During 2007 enthuse was delivered to 2025 students across the UK utilising 90 npower employee volunteers. enthuse events invest in the workforce of the future which has a direct positive effect on the whole local community. Employee volunteers benefit from personal development that counts as CPD with professional institutions.

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Next Event

What: Financial Services Sub-group Meeting 24/03/2010

When: 24 March, 2010

Location: Corporate Citizenship, Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn, London WC1V 7QG.

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LBG : What is the LBG?

What is the LBG?

The London Benchmarking Group (LBG) is a group of over 100 companies working together to measure Corporate Community Investment (CCI).

It is a member-driven organisation where companies have been working collectively since 1994 to:

  • Continue development of a global measurement standard - the LBG model
  • Benchmark and share best practice
  • Develop and refine measurement tools
  • Improve management and implementation of CCI projects
  • Better communicate CCI results to stakeholders with LBG centres

The model is used by hundreds of leading businesses around the world and LBG has centres in a number of key world markets including Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany and the US. Members include multinationals such as HSBC, Vodafone and Unilever, as well as major UK companies such as Marks and Spencer and BSkyB.

The LBG model provides a comprehensive and consistent set of measures for CCI professionals to determine their company's contribution to the community, including cash, time and in-kind donations, as well as management costs. The model also captures the outputs and longer-term impacts of CCI projects on society and the business itself.