Corporate Responsibility

Charities policy
This year, we formulated a charities policy and disseminated it to all businesses within the Group.

Our policy is to support charitable activities linked to our businesses. Consequently, our charity selection strategy requires a charity to meet one or more of the following criteria:

• relate to the activities of one of our businesses; or
• meet the needs of the local communities in which we operate or the destinations we visit; or
• show it has a long-standing relationship with one of our businesses; or
• has a connection to an employee or customer.

The charitable organisations that our businesses support must be registered charities or established organisations with charitable objectives. As well as charitable donations, we also make a number of in-kind donations throughout the year, mainly by offering free holidays to good causes. We will not fund charitable organisations to make any political donations.

Community & charity related risk
Impact on local communities: Most of our holidays are to traditional holiday destinations. Our adventure businesses, Explore and Djoser, offer holidays to over 120 destinations worldwide. We are aware that our tours may have an impact on local communities. We endeavour to engage in local projects and activities and minimise the environmental impact.

Opportunities to enhance value
Investing in local communities: All of our businesses are encouraged to invest in the local communities in which they operate or the destinations they visit. For example, Explore continues to invest in the local communities that its tours visit by contracting local tour leaders.