Charitable Giving
Each year a Charity of the Year is selected. The charity Wedlake Bell supports is selected by our charity committee from a set of candidates nominated by members of staff and has a personal connection to a member of staff. Past charities have included the National Brain Appeal, Find Your Feet, LUPUS UK and most recently The Wiseman Trust.
We are proud to be supporting Think Forward. Think Forward
Think Forward provides long-term, personalised coaching to young people in schools with the highest risk of unemployment to enable them to transition into sustained work. The charity also runs programmes with young people who have mild to moderate learning disabilities with the aim of supporting them into sustainable paid employment. The Covid pandemic has exacerbated the disadvantages already faced by many of the young people assisted by this charity.
Corporate Social Responsibility
We are committed to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and believe in our wider responsibilities to the community and to the environment around us.
We aim to have a positive impact through our main themes of CSR activity:
- Charitable giving
- Community action
- Environment
We pride ourselves on the high professional standards to which we operate. This applies as much to the approach that we take to CSR, as it does to the legal work that we do for our clients.
In the community
We believe that, as a successful law firm, we have a responsibility to provide vital support to those parts of the community and charitable sector that need legal representation but cannot afford it.
We actively encourage community involvement among our people and foster pro bono and community volunteering policies across the firm. We fund and distribute our charitable trust in response to requests for donations, particularly from charities and community projects in which our people are involved.