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BT is committed to make a positive Our community activities are Our stakeholders have told us that people experiencing problems are Telephone Helplines difference in society. in five main categories: we should support the most needy able to talk to someone. BT is Association (THA) • Charities and fundraising. We in society. committed to raise millions to help The Telephone Helplines Association We do this by acting responsibly in support a range of initiatives with ChildLine move closer to its goal of (THA) represents organisations our everyday business conduct and a special focus on a campaign with The use of telephone helplines, answering every child’s call for help. providing telephone services including also by making specific investments the UK children’s charity, ChildLine. websites and national telethons ChildLine answers 2300 calls a day, advice, information, listening support in communities to improve the quality demonstrate how communications but hundreds more children can’t get and counselling on a vast range of of life and sense of well-being for • Education. We use a variety of technology can help in charity through. Within the last two years subjects. those who live there. Our focus is techniques and media, including fundraising. we have raised more than £3.1 million on better communications. live drama and web-based activities, across the UK - the largest sum we BT has supported the development to promote communication and Our guide, Bidding for Funds and have ever raised for a single charity. of both paper and Internet versions As a member of the Per Cent Club, citizenship in schools. Resources, gives charities information of the Telephone Helplines Directory, we are committed to give a minimum on how to secure support from We also give in-kind support to which lists more than 900 national, of 0.5 per cent of our UK pre-tax • Employee involvement. Through businesses (not only BT), trusts and ChildLine, such as strategic and regional and local telephone helplines profits (before exceptional items) to the BT Volunteers programme, we public bodies. technical advice. throughout the UK. direct activities in support of society. encourage BT people to volunteer Our provision was £10 million in their time for community activities. ‘Making It Happen: BT’s Guide to BT’s support has included the donation Fundraising 1987; peaked at £16 million in 2001; We also help others (such as Unlocking EU Funding’ is a guide that of premises for several years, large- BT is able to co-ordinate major and was £9.1 million in the 2005 companies and schools) to organise assists UK public sector bodies such scale promotions and staff fundraising national charitable events, including financial year. volunteering programmes. as schools and hospitals, as well as initiatives, and sponsorship of the telethons for UK charities. We manage businesses and charities, gain access annual BT ChildLine Awards for the entire telephone network for these BT operations provided a further • Arts and heritage. We have a to European Union funding of £50 Services to Children. events, as well as providing call centres £11.7 million in funding and support- pioneering partnership with the billion, much of which goes unclaimed. to take donations over the phone. in-kind in the 2005 financial year, UK’s leading modern art gallery, Tate, It is available here as a free ChildLine was the beneficiary of the Many fundraising programmes are bringing the total contribution for sponsoring its website Tate Online. BT Christmas Concert in 2002, and initiated and organised by employees the year to over 1.1% of BT’s 2003 We support the preservation of the PDF download or you can buy a copy a joint beneficiary in 2003 and 2004. themselves with local charities as the pre-tax profits. UK’s telecommunications heritage. from Politico’s online bookshop. main beneficiaries. Community Network We donated £2 million directly • Digital inclusion. We have been Charities The Community Network is a charity We are involved in international appeals to charities in the year. running a digital inclusion campaign We believe that we can make the that provides teleconferencing through our support of the Disasters to support the UK Government’s biggest charitable impact by helping facilities to the voluntary sector. Emergency Committee (DEC), an aim to give all citizens Internet those organisations that will benefit organisation that helps leading UK access by 2005. We believe that most from our communications BT first funded the Network in 1989 humanitarian aid agencies alleviate promoting access to information technology and expertise. as a six-month pilot to research the suffering from disasters abroad. and communications technology can social implications of this technology. improve people’s lives and open doors ChildLine Now, more than 42,000 people take In the aftermath of the tsunami in to education, jobs and entertainment. BT is a founding partner of ChildLine, part every year in Community south-east Asia, BT played a key role For more information, see Digital the free 24-hour helpline for children Network telephone conferences. in managing the massive response inclusion. and young people in the UK. We gave to the DEC earthquake appeal. We it a simple and memorable number: FriendshipLink, a telephone-based set up a temporary call centre at the 0800 1111. Over one and a half social club for housebound people, BT Tower in London and provided million children have been counselled and FaithLink, which links people to the DEC with on-line fundraising by ChildLine since 1986. church services by phone, are two of and secure payments facilities. In the innovative ways the Community 24 hours in December 2004 the DEC We are working with ChildLine on a Network uses the telephone to meet website processed 166,936 donations, major campaign called ‘Am I Listening?’ social needs and promote social facilitated by BT. This aims to ensure that all young inclusion.

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Children in Need All proceeds from the appeal are split Around 150 BT volunteers took Awards Spreading and sharing the web BBC Children in Need started in 1980 between these eight UK charities, pledges on the phone at BT Tower on BT Community Connections We share our Internet expertise with to improve the lives of UK children which help children affected by 30 December 2004. They answered BT Community Connections is a our community partners and have who have experienced problems or genetic disorders: over 12,000 calls, collecting £10 UK-wide award programme that helped many to develop their own hardships, such as abuse, serious • The Great Ormond Street Children’s million in one night. BT hosts the gives local community groups the websites. This helps information illness and poverty. Charity website for on-line donations, which opportunity to gain access to the about their work and our investment raised over £30 million up to 5 Internet. to reach a wider audience. • The Primary Immunodeficiency The 2004 BBC Children in Need January 2005. Association Appeal raised a record-breaking £17.1 Judging panels in Scotland, Northern BT won Gold Corporate Website million during the live seven-hour • The Society for Mucopolysaccharide We sent BT engineers and 10 tonnes Ireland, Wales and each of the English Hallmark Awards in 2000, 2001 television programme, with 362,000 Diseases of equipment from the UK to help regions have awarded more than and 2002, and received a highly calls taken over the BT network. restore telecommunications services 4700 Internet-ready PCs to individuals commended award in 2003. This was • The Chronic Granulomatous Disorder in the regions affected by the disaster. and groups who plan to make a from the UK Charities Aid Foundation Research Trust Comic Relief positive impact in their community. for demonstrating its corporate Comic Relief is a charity set up by • The Jennifer Trust for Spinal Muscular The volunteers built a satellite community involvement through comedians and uses comedy and Atrophy station in Indonesia and set up an Two examples of excellent use of the websites. laughter to communicate serious emergency operations room providing award are: • Rett Syndrome Association UK messages about the need to end communications for rescue workers • Croham Hurst Good Neighbours, The Telephone Helplines Association poverty and social injustice worldwide. • Batten Disease Family Association and aid teams in Penang, Malaysia. Croydon, UK are setting up a (THA) website is an outstanding It is known for its biennial Red Nose The operations room will continue shopping programme to allow example of a partner website • The Haemophilia Society. day and the related television appeal. to co-ordinate activities with other volunteers to order food over the developed with BT support. countries affected by the disaster until Internet for frail and housebound BT supports the tsunami Volunteers in more than 190 call an early-warning system is established residents, helping to maintain their The THA represents organisations disaster appeal centres across the UK handled around in the region. independence providing telephone services, including Thousands of people across the UK a million calls during the televised advice, information, listening support responded to the Disasters • Exmouth and District Youth Action telethon on 11 March 2005 in aid of Chief Executive Ben Verwaayen said: and counselling on many subjects. Emergency Committee (DEC) relief Group, UK is a voluntary group of Comic Relief. A colossal £37.8 million “Two things are vitally important BT has supported the development appeal in the aftermath of the young people who have set up a was raised on the night, compared to at a time like this. Getting aid into of the Internet version of the tsunami in south-east Asia in programme of enjoyable educational £35 million last Red Nose Day, affected areas quickly, and getting Telephone Helplines Directory. This December 2004. activities that inform young people in making this a record-breaking event. communications up and running. lists over 900 national, regional and south-west England about the effects BT is taking action on both fronts.” local telephone helplines in the UK. BT helped DEC - a UK consortium of of bullying. The group has created Jeans for Genes 13 non-governmental organisations - a pioneering website where young Jeans for Genes raises funds for BT also made a corporate donation We have teamed up with ik Software, handle their donations efficiently on- people can chat and share their research into serious and often life- of £500,000. an Internet services company, to line and on the telephone. We views and experiences. threatening genetic disorders make free, simple-to-build websites provided technical help and affecting thousands of children. BT available to any UK charity or administrative support to cope with For more information, see BT has supported the appeal since 1999. community group. For further details, the high volume of calls. BT did not Community Connections. see ik.com. profit from these calls.

Surveys of our stakeholders By the end of the 2005 financial year, There are 13 separate animated Awards Case studies Life skills have shown that education should the roadshow had made 10,500 tutorials on the Resource Bank Teaching Awards Katha Information Technology TalkWorks be a top priority for our social school visits and more than 2 million website, all aligned to the UK National BT is an associate sponsor of the and E-commerce School TalkWorks is a package of books, investment. children had been involved in the BT Curriculum and Scottish Guidelines. Teaching Awards, sponsoring the In India, BT is working with Katha, audio material, videos and workshops Education Programme since 2000. The site contains regularly updated Primary Teacher of the Year category. a Delhi-based charity, to establish developed by BT to help everyone These are BT’s educational initiatives: programmes of work and activity Designed to raise awareness about the Katha Information Technology improve their spoken communication • In schools - we help to improve the Specially developed curriculum sheets to support curriculum areas, the profession, the awards celebrate and E-commerce School (KITES) skills. communication skills of young people resources and a dedicated website including citizenship, literacy, the achievements of teachers in in one of the city’s poorest areas. across the UK, and encourage good (BT Education) enable teachers, geography and history. England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The TalkWorks products can be citizenship. We deliver in-school parents and pupils to access proven They culminate in a national event KITES offers educational opportunities borrowed from some public libraries events using teams of actors and learning materials which will help For more details see BT Education. broadcast by the BBC. to young people who have not been or ordered via the helpline on 0800 over 2000 BT volunteers. them develop their communication in formal education, and provides 800 808. skills. Connected Earth Education Centre BT Schools Awards literacy and information and • On-line resources - we provide The Education Centre on BT’s on-line The BT Schools Awards are open communication technology (ICT) Workshops can be arranged by calling materials for teachers, pupils and BT Volunteers museum, Connected Earth, provides to all schools in the UK. skills to young adults, women and 0800 389 8255. parents. BT and ex-BT employees registered free teaching resources on the history local businesses. • Awards - for teachers and schools. in our volunteer programme can now of communications. Grants of up to £2000 each are assist with all BT Education activity, awarded to schools which can The project aims to help teachers • Lifeskills - we help to improve including communication skills in- Arts for All demonstrate how their project helps and parents advance personally interpersonal communication skills school events. They also help extend We are very keen to make arts improve young people’s and professionally by improving their in all areas of life. the reach of our education programme available to everyone through our Arts communication skills. In the 2005 computer literacy. by taking a DVD-based programme to for All programme which has already financial year, 240 projects received We support more than 800 BT people schools that were not included in the made one of the largest art collections an award. Supporting English teaching who are school or college governors, roadshow. In the 2005 financial year, in the world easily accessible through in Spanish schools or work-experience supervisors. they delivered our material to over Tate Online (the UK’s most visited arts Regional media partners help to In Spain, BT worked with the Spanish 100,000 school children. site with over 650,000 visitors per promote the Awards, together with Department of Education and the Information about all our education month). We are also working with a UK national newspaper, The British Council to support English activities can be found at BT Online resources National Theatre, the British Film Guardian. language learning in Spanish schools. Education. BT Education Programme Institute and the Philharmonia We have donated computers and The programme provides resources Orchestra to make theatre, film and The 240 winning schools will all have provided a free Internet connection In schools for parents, pupils and teachers to help music more readily available to an opportunity to win one of three to 44 schools and we host a web The BT Education programme is one them improve their communication schools and pupils. £10,000 awards, by submitting community connecting these Spanish of the UK’s most significant corporate skills. The resources range from project progress reports in May 2005. schools with schools in the UK. investments in the education sector. DVDs, downloadable lessons and BT is ensuring that it protects and It includes free speaking and listening interactive web-based activities. promotes the heritage represented by resources, backed by an in-school All resources are available free from the huge advances in communication communication skills roadshow which the website. and technology over the last 100 years. demonstrates the use of materials Through www.connectedearth.com within the classroom environment. Each ICT tutorial has a user-friendly and a partnership with key museums animated exploration of an important around the UK, the full heritage story Communication skills roadshow area of ICT and includes teaching is available to everyone. One of the main strands of the notes, activity sheets, certificates education programme is a touring and pupil self-assessment forms. roadshow. Teams of actors visit schools in the UK, giving drama presentations and communication skills workshops that bring to life the theme of better communication which can help people get more out of life.

BT employs approximately 90,800 BT Volunteers The BT Chairman, Sir Christopher Throughout history, art in its many • An interactive on-line map of Tate Through Connected Earth, the BT people in the UK. We encourage Our employee Volunteer Programme Bland, hosts the annual awards forms has been one of the most Britain, making the largest displays of collection has been distributed to our people to get involved in the enables more than 42,000 BT and ex- ceremony and selects the overall powerful and enduring ways in British art accessible to people all over museums across the UK - making community and there are many BT people to volunteer in schools. All winners in each category. which people have communicated the world and allowing them to create it available to the widest possible ways this can be done. For example, volunteer activities are closely aligned feelings and ideas. their own virtual tour. (relaunched in audience. they can support a local school’s with the company’s focus on improving BT Awards for Quality Winter 2004) activities as a BT Volunteer, answer communication skills, and are related Employees who deliver excellent It is entirely appropriate that BT, a Several Connected Earth exhibitions • An interactive video with the artist telephones in a telethon or donate to the UK’s National Curriculum and results for community causes may company dedicated to encouraging are now on show in the UK: Tracey Emin (Summer 2005). money regularly via BT’s Give As Scottish guidelines. be acknowledged by the company’s and sustaining a communicating • Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station You Earn programme recognition programme, the BT Awards society, should be an enthusiastic in Cornwall Between May 2000 and March 2003, More than 150 Volunteer Clubs have for Quality, which is championed by promoter and supporter of the arts. BT also sponsored the Collection • Avoncroft Museum in the Many employees are involved in their been established across the UK. The our Chief Executive, Ben Verwaayen. We also have a role to play in helping Displays at Tate Modern in London. West Midlands communities through activities programme is available to BT retirees preserve the UK’s telecommunications unrelated to BT’s own initiatives. Our and employees’ family and friends. Community volunteering heritage for educational and cultural • Amberley Working Museum Awards Community Champions Programme Our involvement in volunteering goes purposes. in West Sussex Tate Online has received two encourages and recognises the work The volunteers are working in hundreds beyond the direct engagement of BT Interactive BAFTA Entertainment • The Royal Museum in the National of volunteers by giving financial help of schools across the UK, giving people. We also help bring people Tate Online Awards, the London Tourism Award Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh. to the organisations they support. classroom lessons on speaking and together for voluntary activities. We sponsor Tate Online, Tate’s virtual for best website, a Museum and the listening skills, and helping to develop gallery and the UK’s most visited arts Web ‘Best of the Web’ awards for Three other exhibitions are planned, With over 10,000 BT employees free websites for schools, classes and BT supports TimeBank, a national website. The site - for which BT Best Research site 2004 and is at the Museum of Science and based around the world, our people projects. A number of events have UK volunteering campaign that raises provides technical support, hosting consistently rated the UK’s top visual Industry in Manchester, the Milton are increasingly involved in many local been run for teachers and information awareness of giving time through and on-line broadcasting - provides art site by independent analysts Keynes Museum and the Museum community activities. For example, technology co-ordinators to help them voluntary work. It provides a way access to over 65,000 works of art. Hitwise. of London. ‘Done in a day’ schools voluntary understand the technology available for people to get involved locally by projects in the US invite local young to them. donating their time to community Online traffic to the Tate website The Tate sponsorship has won two Connected Earth - On-line people to experience a day of activities. has increased to more than 5 million Hollis Sponsorship Awards - in 2003 The Connected Earth online museum corporate life. BT people are also Employee giving visitors a year since our partnership for the best use of PR in a sponsorship complements the exhibitions with over involved in supporting partnerships Give As You Earn We believe that volunteering and began. campaign, and in 2005 in the 500 pages of content exploring the between schools in Spain and the We operate one of the UK’s largest working successfully in unfamiliar continuity category. The sponsorship history of communications in the past UK through a web-hosted platform. payroll giving programmes, through teams requires good communication Since September 2001, BT has has also won a Golden World Award 200 years. It charts how people have which over 10,000 BT people have and relationship skills. worked with Tate Online on a number from the Institute of Public Relations. radically improved their ability to Employee volunteering donated money to the charities of of innovative and exciting projects, transmit information, ideas, words, Many of our employees give their time their choice in 2004/5. BT matched Our support extends to server and including most recently: We are also working with National pictures and, most importantly, to work as volunteers, helping causes funds to a maximum of £1 million. website facilities, and we have •‘An Introduction to Modern Art’ - Theatre, the British Film Institute and speech itself, across the globe. of their choice, supported by BT. developed a Corporate TimeBank - an on-line learning resource developed the Philharmonia Orchestra to make Volunteering in the community brings The Charities Aid Foundation runs a packaged volunteering programme in partnership with Tate and the City theatre, film and music more readily The site had over 700,000 visitors mutual benefits: employees learn new the programme on BT’s behalf. Its that will help companies develop Literary Institute (Spring 2004) available to schools and pupils. in 2004 and 126,500 in January skills that help them at work and the figures show that in April 04 to March volunteering programmes of their own. • ‘Let’s Play 66’ - an online quiz we 2005 alone. community benefits from their 05 financial year, the total amount helped create as part of Tate’s ‘Art BT’s heritage collection expertise. given by employees was more than BT promotes the 2005 ‘Year of and the 60s: This was Tomorrow’ Connected Earth BT Archives £1.9 million. the Volunteer’ campaign through show (Summer 2004) BT inherited a rich collection of BT has retained its documentary, We encourage our people to take part its own community communications. historic telecommunications artefacts, image and film collections, held in company volunteering initiatives. If BT pays all the administrative charges The campaign is led by a partnership • An additional 6000 catalogue texts documents, images and films - a at BT Archives, which is open to the their line manager considers this part incurred by the Charities Aid Foundation. between Community Service available at Tate Online and a new collection of acknowledged national public by appointment. of their personal development, they Volunteers (CSV) and a Volunteering glossary of 300 art terms, several with significance which we are committed are given paid time off. Employee awards England Consortium, and is funded British sign language interpretations. to preserving for educational and BT Community Champions by the Home Office. (Autumn 2004). cultural purposes. Support for BT people’s voluntary work in their local communities is recognised by the BT Community Champions Awards, open to all employees.

Case Study BT is committed to making a project officer whose objective is the basics of how to use the computer BT preserves an essential piece of BT engineers dismantled the large BT is committed to the long-term difference in society and our national to find innovative and creative ways so I decided to give it a try. Once I got the UK’s telecommunications history tuning coil with help from conservation preservation of our nationally programmes are supported by to overcome the barriers that deter over the fear factor and put the idea An essential part of what was once the staff and transported it to the Science significant heritage and to ensure activities which ensure that local people from taking advantage of being too old to learn out of my most powerful telegraph transmitter Museum in Wroughton, Wiltshire. It access to collections for as many heritage, cultures and traditions of the opportunities that exist on mind, I was fine. The course was really in the world - the Rugby tuning coil - will be put on public display in the people as possible. Our on-line are represented. the Internet and from having at least interesting and of course I had Sophie has been donated to the UK’s Science summer of 2005. John Liffen, curator museum of the history of basic ICT skills. and Chloe on hand to help me with Museum. The coil has been used in of communications at the Science communications, Connected Earth, the homework! I now have my own PC international communications at BT’s Museum, said: “The Rugby tuning coil operates in partnership with the About BT Cymru/Wales Internet Rangers and have just started another course Rugby radio station in the Midlands is a wonderful reminder of worldwide Science Museum and others. Our dedicated team under BT A new BT-sponsored website for 8-4 - this time in desktop publishing.” since 1926. radio communications in their early Cymru/Wales Director, Ann Beynon, year olds www.internetrangers.co.uk, pioneering days. We’re delighted to is helping to boost information and is part of a campaign launched in Free websites be receiving this equipment from BT.” communication technology (ICT) skills 2004 to help young people get their Some community-based organisations and opportunities in Wales. Working families on-line. cannot make the most of the Internet with the Welsh Assembly and key as a communications tool because it is Case Study stakeholders, BT Cymru/Wales Our case study about children in difficult for them to find the time, BT helps people explore Tate Britain Let’s Play 66 quizzed players’ of this inspirational decade in the supports BT’s national corporate South Wales illustrates how younger money and expertise needed to create from anywhere in the world knowledge of 60s art and culture, comfort of your own home thanks social responsibility (CSR) strategy family members can often be the and maintain a website. ‘Whose 1967 album cover was and allowed people around the world to BT and Tate Online.” and focuses on local community most effective way of encouraging designed by Andy Warhol?’, ‘Who to access images from the exhibition. projects where our expertise can reluctant parents or grandparents BT has teamed up with the IT invented the mini skirt?’, ‘What BT is the exclusive sponsor of Tate really make a difference. onto the Internet. company, ik Software, to make free, happened during Yoko Ono’s Online, the gallery’s website. simple-to-build websites available for performance of Cut Piece?’ These Digital Inclusion BT Wales Case Study UK charities, schools and community were some of the questions in an Sixties icon Honor Blackman, who BT Wales/Cymru is committed to BT Internet Rangers help promote groups to help them raise their profile on-line quiz to complement the Tate launched the initiative, said: “Even tackle digital exclusion and ensure digital inclusion on the Internet. Britain exhibition ‘Art and the Sixties’ if you weren’t around in the 60s, that everyone in Wales has access in 2004. you can discover the art and culture to digital technology. We have several Sophie (11) and Chloe Davies (nine), For more information visit initiatives to achieve this goal. from Neath in South Wales, have www.communitykit.ik.com been budding Internet Rangers since Broadband Christmas 2000 when they got their BT Community Connections BT Cymru/Wales provides access first computer. The girls use the BT Community Connections is a to broadband through ADSL, which Internet mainly for homework and national awards scheme which is now available to more than 92% emailing friends, but last year donates IT equipment, including of houses and offices in Wales. We persuaded their grandmother, Pat computers, software and BT Yahoo! have increased this figure from 34% (70), to try using the Internet. Anytime subscriptions, to community in January 2003 by implementing groups. a new programme to make broadband Sophie says: “Grandma needed quite accessible to some of the most a lot of persuading as she didn’t think We have donated more than 4700 remote communities in Wales. she’d be able to use the Internet. She computers throughout the UK since also said that there wasn’t anything the scheme started in 2000. The 106 EverybodyOnline she’d want to see on the net but Welsh organisations that received BT has formed a unique partnership Chloe and I found a site with lots awards in the 2005 financial year with the UK charity, Citizens Online, of pictures of Neath in the old days included the Upper Sirhowy Valley to bring its EverybodyOnline and one on how to be a gardener. Community First Partnership, programme to areas of the UK where I think we helped change her mind.” Wrexham Neighbourhood Watch Internet take-up is below the national and Mid-Wales Lymphoedema average. After a few lessons with the girls, Support Group. Pat enrolled on a computer class Three of the eight EverybodyOnline at her local community centre. For more information visit projects across the UK are in Wales: www.btcommunityconnections.com. at Bettws and Clydach Vale in the Pat says: “I had the opportunity of south and Rhyl in the north. doing a number of different classes Each project employs a full-time but the girls had already shown me

The BT Education Programme Llandrindod Wells BT Volunteers We have a dedicated Welsh Language About BT Scotland UK charities, schools and community As a communications company, we Around 4000 people are registered Bureau and offer services on request for: groups to help them raise their • Llangattock C In W Primary School, can use our networks and expertise as BT volunteers across the UK. They • Welsh speakers to answer emergency BT Scotland’s Community Investment profile on the Internet. Crickhowell to support the development of support our education programme calls, operator services and Programme promotes social and communication skills. BT supports a • Llangedwyn Primary School, Oswestry by running school workshops to help international operator services digital inclusion, encourages strong For more information visit number of programmes in Scotland: improve communications skills. communication skills and supports www.communitykit.ik.com. • Milton Infant School, Newport • Welsh language directory enquiries Scottish heritage and culture such BT Schools Communications • Radnor Valley Primary School, BT also supports many our of • Welsh language billing as Gaelic language initiatives. BT Community Connections Roadshow Presteigne employees who give their time BT Community Connections is a • Welsh language business advisors. The roadshow is run by a team of to work as volunteers in their local We believe that communication national awards scheme which • Rhayader C.I.W. Primary School, actors who perform a sketch which communities for the causes of their and enterprise skills are essential donates IT equipment, including Rhayader Most of our marketing material, illustrates the importance of good choice. to children and young people and computers, software and BT Yahoo! publications and general information communication skills. An interactive • Tregwyr Junior School, Swansea Welsh Culture and Heritage will better equip them for the future. Anytime subscriptions to community is available bilingually. workshop allows children to put into National & Urdd Eisteddfod As a communications company, groups. • Trewen Primary School, Newcastle practice what they have learnt. In the BT Cymru/Wales sponsors two Welsh we can use our networks and expertise Emlyn Charities and Fundraising 2005 financial year, the roadshow organisations, Urdd and National to support the development of We have donated more than 4700 ChildLine visited 32 schools in Wales. • Waunarlwydd Primary School, Eisteddfodau, to help preserve and these skills. computers throughout the UK since BT is supporting ChildLine’s biggest- Swansea promote the Welsh language and the scheme started in 2000. The 113 ever fundraising appeal. We have BT Schools Awards culture. Welsh people living all over Digital Inclusion Scottish organisations that received • Willows High School, Cardiff raised more than £3.1 million across Each year, BT offers up to 240 awards the world can participate in activities Everybody Online awards in the 2005 financial year the UK â?? the largest sum we have of £2000 to schools across the UK • Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan, Abergele through the Internet and view BT Scotland is sponsoring a three-year included Dundee International ever raised for a single charity. for projects which improve children’s webcasts of events taking place on social inclusion pilot in Glasgow, run Women’s Centre, Food for Thought • Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw, Pontypool speaking and listening skills and help the ‘maes’. by the charity Citizens Online. The in Glasgow, North Ayrshire Young BT people all over Wales are young people become responsible • Ysgol Maes Gwyn, Aberdare aim is to provide basic Information Carers and Victoria After Schools Club contributing to the appeal by citizens. Winners also compete for For more information, see and Communications Technology in Newhaven. • Ysgol Pennant Primary School, organising raffles and other three development awards of www.eisteddfod.org.uk and skills and access to the Internet for Oswestry fundraising events. We are also £10,000. In the 2005 financial year, www.urdd.org. homeless people. Other partners in For more information visit working with ChildLine Cymru to 20 projects were funded in Wales. this project include Glasgow City www.btcommunityconnections.com. Teaching Awards ensure that the issues young people Council, homeless charities and BT Cymru/Wales supports the face in Wales are recognised and that For more information see BT Schools Welsh Language Services hostels. Education and Enterprise National Teaching Awards because strategies are put in place to help. Awards website. BT’s Welsh Language Code of As a communications company, we we believe that good communication BT Wales/Cymru Schools Awards - Practice sets out clearly which services Internet Rangers can use our networks and expertise is at the heart of good teaching. ICT For more information visit Winners 2004 are available to customers in Welsh. A new BT-sponsored website for 8-14 to support the development of is playing an increasingly important www.childline.org.uk. • Builth Wells High School, Builth Wells BT is committed to communicate with year olds, Internet Rangers, is part of communication skills. BT supports a role in education and we want to help its customers openly and helpfully, a campaign launched in 2004 to help number of programmes in Scotland: • Cadle Primary School, Swansea teachers get the most out of new and demonstrate its genuine care and young people get their families on- on-line resources and new ways of • Conway Road Infant School, concern for Wales’s economic and line. BT Schools Communications working. The awards celebrate the Colwyn Bay social well-being and its cultural and Roadshow achievements of teachers and raise natural environment. BT offers these For more information visit The roadshow is run by a team of • Hafod Y Wern Junior School, awareness of the profession. services voluntarily, to meet www.internetrangers.co.uk. actors who perform a sketch which Wrexham customers’ needs, unlike government illustrates the importance of good Pam Roberts of Park Street Infant • King Henry VIII Comp School, bodies, local authorities and other Free web sites communication skills. An interactive School in Abergavenny won the 2004 Abergavenny public sector organisations that are Some community-based organisations workshop allows children to put into BT Award for Teacher of the Year in obliged to provide bilingual services cannot make the most of the Internet practice what they have learnt. In the • Lansdowne J&I School, Cardiff a Primary School. under the 1993 Welsh Language Act. as a communications tool because 2005 financial year, the roadshow To find out more, go to • Llanbister Primary School, it is difficult for them to find the time, visited 32 schools in Scotland. www.teachingawards.com. money and expertise needed to create and maintain a website.

BT has teamed up with the IT company, ik Software, to make free, simple-to-build websites available for

BT Schools Awards Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Scottish culture and heritage About BT Northern the North Belfast Sports Forum and BT School Awards winners 2004 - Each year, BT offers up to 240 awards Trust (PSYBT) Tobar an Dualchais (Well of Omagh District Cultural Association. Northern Ireland of £2000 to schools across the UK for BT Scotland works in partnership Heritage) Ireland For more information visit • Armstrong Primary School, Armagh projects which improve children’s with PSYBT to help young people BT Scotland supports the conversion www.btcommunityconnections.com • Braniel Primary School, Belfast speaking and listening skills and help who want to set up their own ICT of Gaelic and Scots language audio BT Northern Ireland is committed young people become responsible businesses. We provide start-up recordings on tape and vinyl - to provide a wide range of regional Internet Rangers • Donegall Rd Primary School, Belfast citizens. Winners also compete for grants and loans at preferential rates including music, interviews, literature programmes to support education A new BT-sponsored web site for 8-14 • Dungannon Primary School, three development awards of through the BT Scotland Young E- and poetry - to digital format to help and preserve heritage across the year olds, Internet Rangers, is part of Dungannon £10,000. In the 2005 financial year, Enterprise programme. Fifteen new preserve them for future generations. country. Bill Murphy, Managing a campaign launched in 2004 to help 20 projects were funded in Scotland. businesses benefit each year and Director of BT Northern Ireland and young people get their families on- • Integrated College Dungannon, the most successful receives the BT BT Regions, leads BT employees in line. Dungannon For more information see Scotland E-Enterprise Award and a BT Volunteers supporting initiatives which help to • Kesh Primary School, Enniskillen BT education. £1000 cash prize. The 2005 award BT volunteers from across Scotland make a difference to people’s lives. For more information visit went to Nick Lobnitz, a 25-year-old support the BT Education programme www.internetrangers.co.uk • Kilmoyle Primary School, Balleymoney Schools Awards Winners 2004 - mechanical engineer, for effectively by running workshops on Digital Inclusion • Macosquin Primary School, Coleraine Scotland using e-commerce to boost his new communications skills in schools. Free websites Education and Enterprise • Abronhill High School, Glasgow bicycle luggage company, Carry Some community-based organisations As a communications company, we • Nazareth House Primary School, Freedom. Other winners include Scottish volunteers also support a cannot make the most of the Internet can use our networks and expertise Londonderry • Andersons Primary School, Forres Clarifye, a specialist company that range of community-based projects, as a communications tool because it is to support the development of • Oakgrove Integrated College, • Bellsquarry Primary School, Livingston helps UK organisations build or including the BT Scotland difficult for them to find the time, communication skills. BT supports a Londonderry redesign their websites to make Ambassadors rugby youth money and expertise needed to create number of programmes in Northern • Chapelgreen Primary School, Glasgow them fully accessible for people with development programme and the and maintain a website. Ireland: • Omagh County Primary School, • Cleland Primary School, Motherwell disabilities and Emma Laird, owner Scottish Business in the Community Omagh of Foresterseat Caravan Park in Forfar. Ì?’Closing the Gap’ project which aims BT has teamed up with the IT BT Schools Communications • Gadburn Special School, Glasgow • Parkhall College, Antrim to improve success rates at schools in company, ik Software, to make free, Roadshow • Glasgow Gaelic School, Glasgow Scottish Education Awards deprived areas of Glasgow. simple-to-build websites available for The roadshow is run by a team of • Portora Royal School, Enniskillen In partnership with the Scottish UK charities, schools and community actors who perform a sketch which • Highway Day Nursery, Eyemouth • Portstewart Primary School, Executive and the Daily Record, Charities and fundraising groups to help them raise their profile illustrates the importance of good Portstewart • Invergordon Academy, Invergordon BT Scotland sponsors the Scottish ChildLine Scotland on the Internet. communication skills. An interactive Education Awards which highlight BT Scotland’s nominated charity workshop allows children to put into • Poyntzpass Primary School, Newry • Inverkeithing High School, good practice in schools. receives approximately 4000 calls For more information visit practice what they have learnt. In the Inverkeithing • St Anne’s Primary School, from Scottish children each week. We www.communitykit.ik.com 2005 financial year, the roadshow Londonderry • Killearn Primary School, Glasgow National Gaelic Schools Debate work closely with ChildLine Scotland visited 57 schools in Northern Ireland. BT Scotland sponsors this debating to help ensure that all calls are BT Community Connections • St Brigid’s Primary School, • Knockburn Primary School, Glasgow competition which aims to improve answered promptly and sensitively. BT BT Community Connections is a BT Schools Awards Londonderry • Lhanbryde Primary School, Elgin communications skills and help to Scotland supports the charity’s national awards scheme which Each year, BT offers up to 240 awards • St John the Baptist Girls Primary preserve and promote the Gaelic fundraising initiatives with a dedicated donates IT equipment, including of £2000 to schools across the UK for • Linlithgow Bridge Primary School, School, Belfast language in Scotland. ‘Am I Listening?’ week for our computers, software and BT Yahoo! projects which improve children’s Linlithgow employees each year. A fundraising Anytime subscriptions to community speaking and listening skills and help • St John’s Primary School, Maghera • Longniddry Primary School, The Finals event for the 2004 National ball in November 2004, supported by groups. young people become responsible • St Patrick’s High School, Lisburn Longniddry Gaelic Schools Debate took place in BT Scotland, raised over £37,000 for citizens. Winners also compete for the new Scottish Parliament building ChildLine Scotland and we donated a We have donated more than 4700 three development awards of • Trench Road Primary School • Meadow Park, East Lothian and was broadcast live on BBC Radio further £5000 as part of a Football Aid computers throughout the UK since £10,000. In the 2005 financial year, Londonderry • Our Lady & St Patrick’s High School, Scotland. The Nicolson Institute, event in the summer of 2004. the scheme started in 2000. The 93 21 projects were funded in Northern Dumbarton Stornoway, won the debate and Northern Irish organisations that Ireland. runner-up was the Gairloch Academy, received awards in the 2005 financial • St Ambrose High School, Coatbridge Rosshire. year included Gingerbread Northern For more information see BT education. • Turriff Academy, Turriff Ireland, the Men’s Advisory Project NI, • Williamsburgh Primary School, Paisley

Teaching Awards Sentinus Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster Culture and Heritage Lislea Drama Festival Charities and Fundraising BT Northern Ireland supports the Sentinus provides business education The Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster Belfast Festival - BT Talks Lislea Drama Festival, supported by ChildLine National Teaching Awards because we programmes that promote the (YFCU) is run by and for rural young The Belfast Festival at Queen’s has BT, attracts performers and audiences BT is supporting ChildLine’s biggest- believe that good communication is at development of enterprise and people. The clubs are open to all been an international showcase for from all over Northern Ireland and the ever fundraising appeal. We have the heart of good teaching. ICT is communication skills in the UK. It young people aged 12-25 who have a performers and artists for more than Republic of Ireland. raised more than £3.1 million across playing an increasingly important role offers awareness and skills keen interest in the countryside. 40 years. BT sponsors the Talks (BT the UK - the largest sum we have in education and we want to help development programmes in Talks) at the festival from writers, The Playhouse Theatre Company, ever raised for a single charity. teachers get the most out of new on- secondary schools throughout BT supports the YFCU programme to poets and media personalities. Londonderry line resources and new ways of Northern Ireland. BT provides financial involve young people who are Speakers have included Sir Ian BT supports The Playhouse in Derry, BT people all over Northern Ireland working. The awards celebrate the support for two Sentinus excluded from other social activities. Kershaw, Richard Eyre and Tony Benn. which offers high-quality theatre and are contributing to the appeal by achievements of teachers and to raise programmes, Experiences of Work We have helped the YFCU develop an other community arts activities, organising raffles and other awareness of the profession. and the Science and Engineering interactive website for club members Ulster Orchestra including a range of programmes fundraising events. BT Northern Ambassadors in Schools. to organise and publicise their BT Northern Ireland has worked with for people with disabilities. Ireland hosted ChildLine’s 18th The 2004 category award for Teacher activities. the Ulster Orchestra for many years birthday party in our Belfast offices of the Year in a Primary School went BT volunteers can get involved in to encourage children’s interest in Arts and Business and we have helped the charity to Anne McGuinness, a teacher at St several initiatives, for example helping Other education projects classical music. For example, the BT works closely with Arts and benefit from activities organised by John the Baptist School in Craigavon. children to develop their interview BT Northern Ireland supports a Orchestra played the musical score Business - an organisation funded by the Northern Ireland Chamber of skills and teaching them about number of other education of ‘The Snowman’ at a Christmas the Arts Council for Northern Ireland Commerce through our commercial To find out more, go to business. BT Northern Ireland also programmes. For more information, concert while the film was shown and the Department of Culture, Arts sponsorship. www.teachingawards.com. participates in the Sentinus ‘Year in see culture and heritage. on a large screen. and Leisure - to form partnerships Industry’ programme by taking on a with arts organisations. For more information visit Young Enterprise school-leaver to work for a year before BT Volunteers also help out at their Moving on Music www.childline.org.uk BT Northern Ireland supports Young going to university. local schools. Moving on Music promotes musical Funding that the groups receive from Enterprise to provide a range of performances and education. BT BT is matched by Arts and Business. practical business education National Trust Partnership BT Volunteers has partnered the organisation in its programmes in schools and colleges. BT Northern Ireland has worked in Many BT Northern Ireland employees regional tours of jazz, classical and We provide financial support for the partnership with the National Trust on give their time as volunteers to traditional music for three years. Junior Achievement Primary School its education programme for ten support local schools and a wide Programme, which was the first years. Six education centres at range of programmes through primary schools enterprise properties in Northern Ireland have organisations such as Young programme developed in the UK. hosted 350,000 school visits during Enterprise and Sentinus. Over 18,000 pupils take part each this time. Costumes and crafts help year in Northern Ireland and the bring history to life at National Trust They also volunteer to support special programme has now been established houses and gardens. causes, including Children in Need across the UK. and Comic Relief. The Prince’s Trust’s Wired Up Many BT volunteers are involved in Programme Many BT employees also support Young Enterprise. The organisation BT supports the Prince’s Trust Wired charities through sponsorship for presented a Gold Award to Gerry Up Programme in Northern Ireland is personal challenges such as McClory for his longstanding support designed to help young entrepreneurs marathons or international treks. at Corpus Christi school in Belfast. succeed in their businesses. The programme offers small businesses the opportunity to raise their profile through effective use of marketing and information technology.