Lisa Clarke

Man Charitable Trust - Grants Manager

Engagement

Man has a long history of engagement with the communities in which we live and conduct our business.

The values we live through our community activities align closely with many of those we espouse professionally: values such as collaboration, teamwork, accountability.

Our community activities sit within three strands:

1. Sponsorship
where we focus primarily on literature and sport; two disciplines where core values important to Man such as excellence achieved through a combination of talent and effort can be seen in action.

2. Philanthropy
direct financial contributions via the Charitable Trust and our overseas charitable committees, along with those of time and expertise, are designed to achieve the maximum possible impact – both in directly relieving human suffering and in equipping people with skills such as literacy and numeracy which will equip them to support themselves.


3. Our people's engagement
sometimes backed by Group financial help, sometimes simply involving their time and effort; always at their initiative and for a cause important to them.

Holistic

Man has long recognised that we are part of wider society. Our health and vigour as an organisation relies on the health and vigour of that wider community; it behoves us to support it.

Moreover, ours is a business which relies above all on the calibre of people it can attract and retain. The best people these days are 'in a seller's market'; given the choice, many would choose to work for a company of which they can be proud; a company whose values align with theirs. In living and expressing those values, we are investing in our own commercial wellbeing.