Barratt and David Wilson Homes are marking building their 500,000th home by launching a new Charitable Foundation.
The housebuilders, which are bringing new homes to the Isle of Wight, have launched the new Barratt Developments PLC Charitable Foundation with a £500,000 charitable donation.
The new Foundation (www.barrattfoundation.org.uk) will bring together Barratt’s charitable activity under one organisation and will provide a long-term strategy to the company’s charitable giving.
In recent years, Barratt has increased the scope and scale of its charitable giving to £4.5m last year, launching six major new national charity partnerships in the process.
As part of its charitable giving strategy, Barratt supports a range of local and national good causes and encourages employees to get involved with both fundraising and volunteering.
Barratt and David Wilson Homes are building homes on the Isle of Wight at St George’s Gate in Shide.
To mark the launch of the Barratt Foundation, and to celebrate the milestone of the housebuilder building its 500,000th home, Barratt is donating £500,000 across ten important charities and asked its employees to vote on which should receive the largest share of the donation.
Of the ten charities chosen, five will receive £25,000 each (Re-engage, The Samaritans, Refuge, The Matt Hampson Foundation and The Care Workers’ Charity). Three charities will each receive £50,000 (CALM, The Wildlife Trusts and Marie Curie) while Dementia UK, which was voted in second spot, will be given £75,000. The charity that was voted number one by Barratt employees was Macmillan Cancer Support and it will receive an impressive £150,000.
Across the last 12 months in addition to its usual charitable giving, Barratt has given St Mungo’s an extra £125,000 in emergency funding to help with homelessness, £50,000 to the Computers for Kids campaign and £150,000 to NHS Charities Together to support the NHS.
Jon Green, Barratt and David Wilson Homes Managing Director, Southampton Division, said:
“We are launching the Barratt Foundation now to be the focus of our charitable work going forward. In the middle of the coronavirus crisis, we must look after charities as much as we can, and by launching the Barratt Foundation it means we can dedicate more time, effort, and funding, to supporting them.
"Combined with building our 500,000th home, we are marking this milestone by helping people and donating £500,000 to ten charities doing amazing work."
Since the company was formed back in 1958, Barratt has built 500,000 homes, which is more than any other housebuilder and more homes than in any UK city outside of London. After purchasing David Wilson Homes in 2007, it grew to become the UK’s largest housebuilder.
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