Corporate Responsibility

Charities and Good Causes

The British Asian Trust

In 2010/11, we entered into a new partnership with The British Asian Trust. The British Asian Trust aims to serve as a ‘social fund’ to support charities within areas of education, enterprise and health in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) and the U.K. The British Asian Trust is part of The Prince’s Trust and we look forward to developing a strong working relationship with them.

The Prince’s Trust

Our partnership with The Prince’s Trust entered its third year in 2010/11; we donate over £40,000 per annum to support their work. We were delighted to receive a letter of thanks from HRH Prince Charles earlier in the year in recognition of the support and contribution that he felt we have made to the work of the charity. It has become the U.K.’s leading youth charity, offering a range of opportunities, including training and personal development, business start-up support, mentoring and advice.

We continued to invest in the work of The Prince’s Trust on a number of fronts. In Scotland, we funded a 12 week project team programme in Glasgow, which culminated in our staff and the project participants releasing a seasonal CD album of popular Christmas songs; this helped raise £2,500 for the charity. In England, we supported The Prince’s Trust’s xl Club programme. This offers extra support to pupils who are facing difficulties and underachieving at school. The BARR Staff Open Day held at our Cumbernauld site during June 2010 was attended by over 1,200 people, helping to raise a phenomenal £2,200 on the day for The Princes Trust. At Christmas, The Prince’s Trust’s popular fundraising event, the Black & White Ball in Glasgow, auctioned off a number of items, including a carved IRN-BRU snowman, together with a Strathmore Mountain bike and book signed by Olympic Champion Chris Hoy, which helped to raise a further £1,300.

Strathmore Spring water was once again the official water of The Prince’s Trust and helped to boost funds by supporting many fundraising activities and official Prince’s Trust dinners throughout the year.

The Prince’s Trust – helping to change young lives.

For more information go to www.princes-trust.org.uk

The Big Issue Scotland

2010/11 marked the 15th year of our support for The Big Issue Scotland.

During this period, we have committed over £200,000 of support to the charity’s weekly magazine.

Vendors buy the magazine for £1 and sell it for £2, making £1 profit on each copy. The Big Issue was set up to give homeless people a chance to make an income. Vendors are homeless, ex-homeless or may be vulnerably housed.

For more information visit their website at www.bigissuescotland.com

The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice Sportsman's Dinner.

2011 marked the 15th year that we have sponsored the Hospices annual Sportsman's Dinner. It is the Charity's most successful annual fundraising event of the year raiing many thousands of pounds.

The Hospice, based in Glasgow, provides care and comfort to terminally ill patients and supports their carers and families.

To find out more about the charity go to www.ppwh.org.uk

Jimmy Rexter / Rab Simpson and our BARR Returnable Glass Bottle System.

We know that the 30p bottle deposit on our BARR 750ml RGB's plays an important role in helping many charities to raise much needed funds.

Jimmy Rexter from Cumbernauld has dedicated the past 25 years to collecting Barr Soft Drinks returnable glass bottles and has raised more than £100,000 for Scottish charities, an incredible achievement which we celebrated with him during a visit to our cumbernauld site in 2008.

In January this year our former Chairman Robin Barr attended a very special afternoon tea at Strathcarron Hospice in Falkirk to pay tribute to Rab Simpson. Rab has spent the last 20 years collecting our bottles to donate the proceeds to the hospice and has raised a phenomenal £101,488.36p.

Community In Kind Donations

Over the years we have assisted many thousands of community groups, charities and good causes with donations of Barr Soft drinks products and merchandise in order to help them raise much needed funds. If you would like to approach us for a product or merchandise (subject to availability) donation then can you please send us your request in writing detailing some background information on your group, what event or activity you would like us to support, when the event or activity is happening and exactly what level of support you are looking for. Due to the high number of requests that we receive can you please allow 4 to 6 weeks for us to respond on whether or not we will be able to assist you. It is our intention always to respond with an answer to every request for assistance that we receive.

Please either email marieholcroft@agbarr.co.uk  or send your request in writing to:

Marie  Holcroft
A.G.Barr p.l.c.
2nd Floor Mansell House
Aspinall Close
Middlebrook
Horwich
BOLTON
BL6 6QQ

Community Emergency Support

During last winter’s water shortage in Northern Ireland, we supplied over 115,000 litres of Strathmore Spring Water to support the community.