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Responsible Business

Volunteers helping with planting trees

HL Foundation

The HL Foundation, established in 2016, is an independent registered charity. The Foundation’s mission is to make a positive, sustainable difference in the world around us and aligns with HL’s Responsible Business strategy. The Foundation provides targeted support to charities that promote financial resilience within our local communities.

Funds are raised for the Foundation from colleague fundraising activities, donations from HL Ltd and payroll giving. HL colleagues nominate and then vote on who our charity partners will be. We then establish a long-term partnership with those charities to allow us to focus our fundraising efforts, develop meaningful relationships with those charities and also support in other ways, where appropriate, for example by providing colleague volunteers or running in-office collection drives for donations the charities are in need of.

Our current and previous charity partners include:

  • FareShare South West
  • Just Finance Foundation
  • Fear Free
  • 16-25 Independent People
  • Mind Bristol
  • Ark Children’s Foundation

We also empower our colleagues to raise money for causes close to their heart, by offering matched funding grants to individual colleagues fundraising for registered charities. The HL Foundation also provides ongoing support to disaster relief campaigns, supporting vulnerable communities worldwide responding to and recovering from humanitarian disasters.

The HL Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales (1167927).