Community Involvement

The Griffin Awards

The Griffin Awards, now in their seventh year, seek to recognise and promote the achievements of local charities and organisations in the communities of Bedfordshire and Cheshire, where GM's UK operations are primarily focused.
This year, the Awards contributed £15,000 in prize money at each location, as well as the use of a loan vehicle in each of the two counties. Since these popular and high profile Awards were launched in the year 2000, a total of £180,000 has been awarded to worthy causes.

General Motors has a long history of supporting the local communities in which we work and is proud to support the remarkable and worthwhile work done by so many charities and organisations to enrich and develop the lives of the people living in those communities.

GM Volunteer Plus

October 2005 saw the launch of the GM Volunteer Plus programme across GM UK. This programme is operated, and funded, by the GM Foundation in the USA which donates a 0 equivalent sum to a charity that an employee (or group of employees) undertakes to commit 50 hours of volunteer time.

Since October 2005, 50 equivalent donations have been made to charities around the UK,with 1350 hours of employee time given to community volunteering. Charities that have benefited from this contribution include Breakthrough Breast Cancer, British Heart Foundation, Action on Addiction and WOMAC (Women on the Move Against Cancer) as well as local charities such as Wirral Health and Safety and Welfare Advice Centre, and Hospice at Home Volunteers, based in Luton.

• Read more in the GM UK Charity Review 2006

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