Employee support One of the UK's biggest community contributors
	As well as giving directly to charities and voluntary organisations, Barclays encourages its employees to help the community by raising funds and volunteering their time. Its £ for £ scheme matches the first £750 that any employee raises for charity and helped towards Barclays total community contribution of £26.3 million, making the company one of the top corporate contributors in the UK. This scheme has now been extended worldwide. In a similar way, employees who spend their own time in voluntary service can add the same amount of work time, up to a limit of two hours a month.
			Barclays is proud of its employees' active support for local causes and their enthusiasm for taking on new challenges in the community, such as in the Peoples Kitchen, Newcastle.

Barclays is a member of the PerCent Club – a group of companies that undertook to donate at least 0.5% of their UK pre-tax profits to the community in 2000. Barclays is one of the top five corporate contributors in the UK. Barclays community work focuses on five main areas – education, the arts, the environment, supporting the disadvantaged and those with disabilities.