Environmental loans Hefty support for greener companies
	All companies are under pressure to improve their environmental performance and Barclays is making it easier for them to do so. Its Environmental Loan Support Scheme offers £100 million of European money in the form of preferential loans to businesses that make a real difference to the environment. Loans can vary from £25,000 to £500,000 and have funded projects such as regenerating brownfield sites, reducing water pollution or improving health and safety. One such beneficiary was a veterinary hospital in Lincoln which built new, energy-efficient premises on the cleaned-up site of an old petrol station.
			One beneficiary of Barclays Environmental Loan Support Scheme was the Veterinary Hospital in Lincoln which used the money to build new, energy-efficient premises on the cleaned-up site of an old petrol station.

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.