M&G in the Community

We have a proud heritage of making a difference and creating positive long lasting impact. Through our social impact projects we can play an active and engaged role in our communities, to help build a stronger, more resilient society. We work with charities and NGOs on local, national and international programmes that create opportunities to bring colleagues together and support our communities.

Building Better Futures

Our social impact programmes aim to build inclusive and resilient communities by giving people the skills & opportunities to become financially secure and regenerating spaces & places that help people and nature to thrive.

We have two strategic pillars: Building Confidence and Building Communities.

Building Confidence: We know there are a variety of social and structural factors that can make it difficult to save and plan for the future. We want to give people the tools to reach their full potential. Our ‘Building Confidence’ programmes provide essential skills, build resilience and enhance financial capability.

Building Communities: Our main projects focus on repurposing empty spaces and educating young people on the importance of protecting the environment. Our flagship programme, Building Futures, is a global network of bespoke projects local to our offices around the world, which aim to provide essential needs for communities to have secure and sustainable futures.

Within each theme we work with charity partners to help us deliver our goals as well as providing opportunities to engage colleagues in our locations across the world. We establish long-term relationships with our charity partners to improve lives, build communities and provide support, not only through funding, but also with the experience and expertise of our colleagues. We ensure that the projects we support are sustainable and we work closely with our partners to ensure that our programmes continuously improve.

Our strategic pillars

Find out more about our charity partners and programmes.

Building confidence

Giving people skills & opportunities to become financially secure

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Building communities

Regenerating spaces and places that help people and nature to thrive

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M&G in the Community Fund

The M&G in the Community Fund supports local causes and projects that benefit the community with funding grants between £500 to £5,000 (or equivalent in local currency) per project.

We fund a diverse range of projects and we welcome applications from charity groups internationally where M&G plc operates.

This is a rolling programme where applications are accepted all year round, with funding decisions taken by M&G plc colleagues on a quarterly basis.

260 grants awarded since 2019

We've shared some examples of the grants awarded below

The Empowering Children Foundation, Poland

The ECF works towards making sure that all children have a safe childhood and are treated with respect offering services including psychological and legal help to abused children and their caregivers; and supporting and educating parents/caregivers in parenting without violence.

The Kind Kitchen, Scotland

The Kind Kitchen works to feed local communities and key workers with nutritious healthy meals, delivered by a pool of local caterers, and support small independent Scottish food businesses who are struggling with little or no income.

El Shaddai Charitable Trust, India

El Shaddai supports schools across Goa, and runs outreach programmes in slum areas. Their programmes aim to empower women in areas of reproductive health, family planning, the dangers of child marriage and the rights of the girl child. They work with families in slums areas to create awareness and bring about change in their lives.

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Guidance document

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Community investment policy

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M&G's community support

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Disaster and emergency response

It is more important than ever that we work together and M&G is fully committed to supporting charities which are providing frontline services to our communities around the world.

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Governance

We have established an operating model for Corporate Responsibility (CR) across M&G plc which provides guidance to support each office and market to manage charitable activities within the framework of a consistent, business-wide approach.

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CR Governance Committee

A CR Governance Committee is in place, with senior management representation, which oversees community investment activity and agrees strategy and spend. The Group Executive Committee and the Board review the CR strategy and performance on an annual basis.

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Corporate Responsibility team

The M&G plc CR team manages activities across the business: devising community investment initiatives, measuring impact and spend, tracking performance against annual competitor benchmarking, as well as refining issues of key social importance to the business and determining where the business can have the greatest social impact.

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Community Investment Policy

Our Community Investment Policy can be viewed here

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