Mace Foundation Annual Review 2015

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Annual Review2015

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FOREWORD

It is with great pride and pleasure that I can announce that the Mace Foundation has achieved a major milestone in 2015, passing the £1.2 million mark in donations to 192 charities and worthy causes since its inception in November 2012.

This incredible achievement has been made possible because of the unwavering support of Mace’s people; employees, clients, supply chain partners and friends. And, speaking on behalf of our trustees, executive team and our charity partners, we are immensely grateful.

All of our supporters consistently bring endless energy, empathy, passion, enthusiasm and commitment to helping others and this year has been no exception, with our fundraising efforts reaching new heights.

In 2015, the Mace Foundation donated £522,000 to 103 charities including £125,000 through our match funding programme. We

have seen more than 4,000 Mace people around the world taking part in an extraordinary range of events – running, skipping, walking, hopping and cycling. In total £376,000 was raised from various fundraising events, nearly half of this total came from some amazing activities associated with Mace’s 25th Anniversary celebrations.

All these efforts have helped the Foundation to strengthen and deepen our relationships with our strategic charity partners, meaning we can create even more opportunities and further support disadvantaged people and the communities in which Mace works.

During 2015, the Foundation has continued to create rewarding volunteering opportunities for Mace employees. Through our award-winning partnership with London Wildlife Trust and Canal & River Trust over 550 Mace employees have helped improved wild spaces and protect waterways across London.

Mace Foundation donates more than just funds too. This year, many of our charity partners have benefited from pro bono work provided by Mace employees ranging from IT consultancy, graphic design, Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA) Stage 2 – Concept Designs and programme management.

I would like to thank the Mace Foundation team, Mace Limited; it’s employees, clients and supply chain for their support. The impact on people’s lives is beyond measure.

Thank you.

Mark Reynolds Mace Foundation Chairman and Mace Chief Executive

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Mace employee contributions

MACE’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY FUNDRAISING

Celebrating Mace’s 25th anniversary in 2015 has really brought to the fore Mace’s core philosophy of constantly striving to do things in a better way and its spirit of adventure that is evident in everything they do.

Every day is an adventure for Mace. Mace believes that every challenge is an opportunity to think and do things differently. Do things better. Every space, every structure, every city is a chance to imagine better. For 25 years Mace’s adventurous spirit has driven Mace people to

do things better, push for more, improve the world, move the industry forward.

As part of the celebrations the Mace Foundation organised a series of fundraising activities throughout the year for Mace people to help raise funds and support the local communities where Mace works.


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‘Tour de Mace’

On Thursday 24 September, 50 Tour de Mace cyclists completed a 250 mile cycle ride over four days from Manchester to London. The team was made up of Mace employees, supply chain partners and Mace Group Board Members Stephen Pycroft, Jason Millett and Mark Holmes. To celebrate the Grand Finale of Tour de Mace, nearly 200 people attended Cycle Fest at the Olympic VeloPark where 25 teams of five took part in an additional 25 mile relay race around the one-mile outside track. An incredible £104,000 was raised by the Tour de Mace cyclists, Cycle Fest and Brompton Challenge teams.

‘Race for Mace’

Over 600 Mace people in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Australia, Dubai, North America and South Africa dusted off their running shoes and raised £36,000 for the Foundation in a series of organised races. The biggest race took place on 30 July in London’s Regent’s Park where 462 runners made up of Mace employees, clients, suppliers, dogs, strollers, friends and family completed the 5km course.

‘The Adventurer’

The first, and most global fundraising activity for the 25th anniversary involved a baton – ‘The Adventurer’, 27 countries, 72 projects and 2,600 people. Emulating the time honoured Olympic tradition of passing the baton from one participant to another, The Adventurer was handled by employees, clients and the general public including a few celebrities and raised £16,000 for the Mace Foundation.

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Thanks to the incredible level of funds raised during the Anniversary celebrations we have been able to make an additional donation of £10,000 to each of our strategic charity partners. This donation will be used to support some of the other crucial work carried out by the charities.

HOW THE 25TH FUNDRAISING EFFORTS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Pay: Date:

Mace Foundation | 155 Moorgate | London | EC2M 6XB |

Mark ReynoldsChief Executive of Mace and Chairman of the Mace Foundation

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Coram, LandAid, The Princes Trust

RedR UK, Teenage Cancer Trust, WheelPower 60,000

December 2015

Pay:

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Mace Foundation | 155 Moorgate | London | EC2M 6XB |

Mark Reynolds

Chief Executive of Mace and Chairman of the Mace Foundation

£Coram, LandAid, The Princes Trust

RedR UK, Teenage Cancer Trust, WheelPower 60,000December 2015

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This donation will enable:

Coram

2,000 children aged 4–13 across the UK through Coram’s Life Education to understand how to lead healthier lives and make better decisions. For example, the importance of a healthy diet and exercise, dangers of peer pressure and bullying.

LandAid

Identify, recruit and train four young people with personal experience of homelessness from around the UK. They will develop their story-telling skills, their confidence and their ability to present themselves and their views to professionals across the property industry in person, on video and through social media. Enabling them to represent those peers less able to get their voices heard.

The Prince’s Trust

Ten disadvantaged young people get back on their feet and give them the chance of a future they deserve. Support from The Prince’s Trust helps young people to turn their lives around and reach their potential.

RedR UK

RedR to develop and pilot a 3–4 day training programme for Syrian NGOs working in Northern Turkey. The course is likely to cover the essentials of humanitarian practice, managing humanitarian projects and will also introduce elements of staff welfare. RedR is particularly excited about being able to deliver this pilot as they’ve had a lot of interest from NGOs in the region, but up until now haven’t had the funds to deliver the skills training that is being asked for and desperately needed.

Teenage Cancer Trust

Five Teenage Cancer Trust Youth Support Coordinator’s activity budgets, for one year, enabling them to organise activities for young people with cancer like, arts and crafts sessions, music lessons, discussion groups, pampering sessions, games, and party events on the unit as well as day trips outside of the units for potentially hundreds of young cancer patients.

WheelPower

Three sports camps for 150 disabled young people. The camps would be held at Stoke Mandeville Stadium and would introduce disabled children to sport. Two of the camps would be for children aged 6–11 and the third for young paralysed adults who are looking to get into sport.


VOLUNTEERING

“I would like to thank the many hundreds of Mace volunteers that work with us. It’s an amazing and hugely appreciated investment, and through our joint work thousands and thousands of Londoners lives are benefited.”

Gordon Scorer, Chief Executive London Wildlife Trust

Created2,000m2 of new habitats for rare butterflies, snails, reptiles and birds.

Collectedtwo skips of litter.

Restored400m of pathways.

PUBLIC FOOTPATH

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The Mace Foundation’s partnership with the London Wildlife Trust has been recognised twice this year, scooping a Lord Mayor’s Dragon Award for exemplary best practice in corporate community involvement as well as being commended for outstanding community engagement at the BIG Biodiversity Challenge Awards, which celebrate biodiversity enhancements across the construction industry and built environment.

The Big Biodiversity Challenge Award was given for the Mace Foundation and London Wildlife Trust’s joint efforts in the Rosendale Community Depave Project, South London – an innovative flood attenuation scheme which involved the removal of over 100 tonnes of concrete, which was replaced by 300 square meters of new green space, encouraging wildlife and alleviating flood risk for the local community.

Restored400m of pathways.

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Mace employees are also volunteering around the world and the Mace team in Qatar and their families once again volunteered at the Qatar National Sports day, to support Hope Qatar, a non-profit training centre for less able children. The sports day has been set up to promote good health and healthy activities by the government for all the community.

This year 1,250 Mace employees have used their volunteer day to give back. An impressive 550 employees took part in the autumn volunteering programme managed by the Foundation with London Wildlife Trust and Canals and Rivers Trust. Every Mace employee is entitled to one paid day a year to volunteer for a charity or worthy cause. Employees have used their volunteer day to help support reading schemes at schools, give out food at homeless centres and helping the elderly.

The Mace team adopted Hope Qatar in 2014 as their chosen charity and over the last year have provided support for the school premises in terms of maintenance and repairs, equipment, toys, and providing plants for the garden. The children assisted in the planting and learned about how to physically plant the flowers and herbs, and the benefits of each.

£37k£54k £26k

Coram

The Mace Foundation’s charitable donation to Coram’s Youth Services has helped young people in and around the care system to understand their rights and transition to independence. The Mace Foundation has impacted the lives of the most vulnerable young people in our communities through supporting Coram’s vital services.

LandAid

This year we’ve helped LandAid award £1.2m in grants. LandAid works to improve the lives of children and young people in the UK who experience disadvantage due to their economic or social circumstances.

The Prince’s Trust

The Mace Foundation is able to support disadvantaged young people and help them build a secure future by running The Trust’s ‘Get into…’ vocational programme on Mace’s construction projects.

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SUPPORTING OUR CHARITY PARTNERSThe Mace Foundation’s funding comes from three primary sources; donations, fundraising and the Mace Ltd donation of the equivalent 1% annual pre tax profits.

£41k £67k £63k

RedR UK

The Foundation’s donation to RedR goes towards improving humanitarian effectiveness in all stages of the disaster cycle by developing the capacity of those organisations and their employees engaged in humanitarian action. The donation also facilitates improvement to management and technical capacity in urban emergencies.

Teenage Cancer Trust

Our donation covers the cost of a Teenage Cancer Trust Youth Support Coordinator at the Royal Marsden Hospital, Surrey. Working with the nursing team, the Coordinator provides unique services for over 200 young people with cancer.

WheelPower

Our partnership with WheelPower allows us to fund ‘Time to Shine’ a four-day residential programme at Stoke Mandeville which provides sporting opportunities for young disabled people from London who often do not fit into mainstream physical education/sports provision.

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GIVING BACK TO OUR COMMUNITIES IN 2015

2Teenage Cancer Trust youth coordinators, annual salaries

P3 A1 I1 D2

1,000young disabled people experienced sports

young people helped into supported housing service 85

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PRO-BONO

£14,000 raised

#HELP NEPAL

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25people jumped out of a plane to help achieve a Guinness World Record, raising over £150k

160 patients and their families attended

‘Sportacular’ at Queen Elizabeth Oympic Park

MOVEPLAYEXPLORE

3,000people given access to the

Tate’s Community Programme

volunteered by Mace employees in 2015

12disadvantaged people attended

GET INTO CONSTRUCTION

9,375 hrs

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MACE EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS

1,250volunteered a day of their time for worthy causes.

600Mace people from across the

globe ran 5k raising £34k

50people cycled 250 miles raising £104k

125Mace people cycled 25 miles in a relay race on Brompton bikes

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Other charities supported

353Action for ATAlzheimer’s SocietyAMMF (cholangiocarcinoma charity)Anthony Nolan TrustApples and PearsArk SchoolsArmy Benevolent FundBeatBees for DevelopmentBig IssueBreast Cancer NowBritish Heart FoundationBritish Red CrossBuilding LivesCALMCampbell Burns Metabolic TrustCancer Research UKCapoeira Academy UKCHAS (Children’s Hospice Association Scotland)Chelsea PensionersChickenshedCHICKSChildren of Fire

Children with CancerChristie FoundationCLIC SargentComic ReliefCommunity Action NepalCommunity Link TrustConstruction Youth TrustCool EarthCoppafeel!CoramCRASHCrisisCystic Fibrosis TrustEpilepsy ActionFareShareFORCE Cancer CharityFreddie Farmer FoundationGenesis research trustGenetic Orders UKGet Kids GoingGreat Ormond Street HospitalHelen Rollason Cancer CharityHelp for HeroesHomes of HopeHospice in the WealdInstitution of Civil EngineersLandAid

Leonard Cheshire DisabilityLighthouse ClubLondon Wildlife TrustMacmillan CancerMaking MiraclesMarie CurieMindMovemberMultiple sclerosis societyNorth London HospiceNSPCCOchreOrpheusOxford Radcliffe Hospital CharityPapyrusPeer UKPlayskilllsPrince’s TrustRedRRennie Grove HouseRoyal Chelsea HospitalRoyal Marsden cancer charitySamaritansSave The ChildrenSmile for HattiSpitalfields Crypt TrustSt John’s HospiceSt Luke’s Hospice

St Mary’s HospiceSt MungosSt Rocco’s HospiceStarlight Children’s FoundationSue RyderTateTeenage Cancer TrustThe Architecture FoundationThe Childrens Hospital CharityThe Ellen MacArthur Cancer TrustThe Lords TavernersThe MS TrustThe Outward Bound TrustThe PSP AssocationThe Wunder ProjectTogether We Can (Kings College Hospital)Transplant AssociationUbuhle Bezwe Child Care CenterWellChildWheelpowerWhite City EnterpriseWhitechapel MissionWillow FoundationZeitz Foundation

£522kdonated to worthy

causes and charities

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REACHING MORE CHARITIES WITH OUR MATCH FUNDING PROGRAMME

One of the unique qualities of the Mace Foundation is our match funding programme for Mace employees.

Mace employees really are at the heart of the Mace Foundation and we encourage everyone to contribute to, and take part, in the many activities and events planned by the Foundation and our charity partners. We are keen to support charities that are important to Mace people and we are able to do this through our match funding programme.

“I have been overwhelmed by people’s generosity, my mum would have been speechless that over £3,000 has been raised in her memory. The Mace Foundation match funding is the cherry on the cake for me. A huge thank you to the Foundation for making this happen, it has meant that we have been able to pay a little bit back to the Hospice for what they did.” Lynne Parker, raised funds for St Rocco’s Hospice in Warrington, who cared for her mother


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Every Mace employee is able to apply for up to £500 per year for their fundraising efforts for a charity of their choice that aligns with the charitable objectives of the Foundation. Fundraising is also a great way to get teams together. To reflect this £5,000 is available each month for teams who fundraise for charity. For example The Como Crusaders, five Mace employees, raised an incredible £37,523 with match funding from the Mace Foundation for the Sue Ryder charity, by running the London Marathon in 2015. Sue Ryder provides incredible care for people with life-changing illness. Whether it’s bringing comfort to someone’s final days or enabling them to make the most of their life, they are there for them and their loved ones.


This year together with Mace employees we raised £358,000 for charities with the Mace Foundation providing £125,000 match funding support to 43 teams and 67 Mace employees.

Mace projects in the UK also sign up to the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) which is a national independent scheme that promotes considerate practices in construction. The projects are independently audited and scored every six months against set criteria including respecting the community. To recognise team efforts and performance the Mace Foundation donates £1,000 each quarter to the project team who scores the highest for them to donate to a local charity. The scheme was launched in April

2015 and one of the charities who benefitted was the North London Hospice, located just a few miles from Mace’s Hendon MPS project. The Hospice aims to provide the best palliative care for people with life limiting illness and to add quality and meaning to their life journey whether it be within the hospice or in their own homes.

MATCH FUNDING

£358,000

2015

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SHININGSTARSAt the end of last year, the Mace Foundation had two categories in Mace’s employee Star Awards. These categories celebrated employee achievements and recognised individual and team efforts for making a positive impact on the Foundation, whether through charitable endeavours, voluntary work or ongoing commitment to supporting the communities in which Mace worked in 2014.

The 2014 winners were announced at a glistening evening at the Café Royal in London on Thursday 19 March 2015.


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Mark Huggett individual award winner

Mark was nominated for this award three times, by three different people – a magnificent achievement. For two years Mark has supported the Community Links Christmas Toy Appeal, and in 2014 raised an unbelievable amount of awareness and at the same time, filled two shipping containers worth of high quality toys to be sent to disadvantaged children around the world.

South Bank Tower team team award (joint winners)

Since the launch of the Mace Foundation, South Bank Tower has actively fund-raised for all of the newly developed Foundation partnerships. The Mace team of around 50 people has consistently welcomed the opportunity to join in and contribute, and many supply chain partners have also taken an active role because of their efforts. In the last two years this team has raised in excess of £20,000 for charity, and supported on countless volunteering events.

Mace Serbia and Montenegro team award (joint winners)

In the wake of one of the worst natural flooding disasters to hit Serbia, Mace’s team in the region responded with speed to a plea by the government asking for volunteers to help search and rescue teams in nine severely flooded towns. The floods in May 2014 resulted in the loss of 33 lives, forced the evacuation of 36,000 people from their homes and has made significant infrastructure and agricultural damage to the country.

Mace Serbia and Montenegro reacted immediately by taking part in volunteering from day one and assisted in building additional defending levees. A donation of €10,000 was also given and all of our Serbia and Montenegro based employees donated 10% of their monthly salaries, which went to the Flood Relief Office of the Government of Serbia.


This year, we hosted The Trust’s ‘Get into Construction’ programme across four of Mace’s London projects: Nova, Victoria, Chelsea Barracks, 7–10 Hanover Square and 1 Bedford Avenue for 12 young disadvantaged people.

Last year, around 50% of the young people completing a ‘Get Into...’ course moved on to work with a further 25% going on to more training. To date, 16 young people who have attended a Mace ‘Get into Construction’ programme have secured fulltime employment.

25 Mace people have supported our ‘Get into Construction’ programme in 2015 helping to change young lives by giving them the first foot on the employment ladder.

Seven Mace employees took part in the tenth Palace to Palace cycle ride from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle helping to raise vital funds for The Trust.The power of knowledge

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Louis.Louis secured fulltime employment as a trainee plumber with Essex Services Group PLC after participating in our ‘Get into Construction’ programme.

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The Foundation’s donation will help 60 disadvantaged young people between the age of 11–18 to experience an outdoor learning programme.

The Outward Bound Trust is an educational charity that uses the outdoors to help develop young people from all walks of life. The Trust runs adventurous and challenging outdoor learning programmes that equip young people with valuable skills for education, work and life. Helping them become more confident, more effective and more capable at school, college and in the workplace.

The Foundation has also made a further donation to the Trust’s Flood Appeal following recent flood damage to one of their residential centres overlooking Lake Ullswater in Cumbria.

Employment & Education

The Mace Foundation has become a founding partner for the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) Exhibition and Learning Centre for the next five years to showcase the talents of the built environment, inspire the next generation and demonstrate how knowledge can impact people’s lives for the better.

The Exhibition and Learning Centre will directly link engineering with technology. This is at the heart of innovation, driving global development and leadership. Young people are familiar with and comfortable with the digital world. They could be inspired to work within the built environment if they could see practical ways in which their skills could make a difference to society. To facilitate this, the ICE will create a virtual hub for knowledge content and e-learning.

The ICE charity will be launching the centre next year and will be open to the public and schools for the first time, acting as an interactive space that brings engineering to life for everyone from age 8–80.

ICE’s ultimate aim is to turn our most important asset – knowledge – into action for positive change to further their ‘Shaping the World’ campaign.

Unlocking potential with The Outward Bound Trust

To further support our commitment to inspire young people and support local communities where Mace works, the Foundation donated £5,000 in 2015 to The Outward Bound Trust to help 60 disadvantaged young people in Birmingham and Manchester unlock their potential.

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Employment & Education

This donation will support the organisation to recover and re-open after the flooding, so Outward Bound can continue their important work, developing young people from all walks of life.

#loveLIVES campaign

The Mace Foundation made a £2,000 donation this year to help save the construction industry’s Building Lives #loveLIVES campaign and enable them to take on around 850 trainees and apprentices

in 2015. Building Lives inspires people from all backgrounds into sustainable construction careers; reducing unemployment and tackling the industry skills shortage. Working with their partners they provide employment and training opportunities to young people across London. They train for jobs not qualifications and are committed to taking steps to reduce the number of young NEETs in London and unemployment, whilst also tackling the skills shortage in the

construction industry. This year, Building Lives was threatened with closure due to a lack of funding and the construction industry rallied together to raise £400,000 in 50 days in order to save the short-term future of the organisation.

“We know that an Outward Bound personal development course will help young people to build the confidence, grit, resilience and self-belief that they will need for future success, we are thrilled to be able to support.”

Michael Hanson, Mace Foundation CEO

Amy, who grew up in care, became homeless at just 17. After leaving care, social services were unable to find her a safe place to live.

With nobody to turn to, Amy was forced to move from place to place travelling around on night buses just to keep warm. She even had to ask to stay in a police cell for the night. The streets can be brutal. Living rough meant that Amy was exposed to all kinds of dangers no young person should face. Young people are preyed on by drug pushers, child traffickers and gangs who take advantage of their vulnerabilities.

Since 2013, we have provided housing for 46 young people like Amy through our partnership with Coram and their Supported Housing service. This year, our donation has supported Coram’s Supported Housing in Camden, Tower Hamlets, Brent and Bexley.Towards the end of 2015, Coram’s Supported Housing Service has shifted

focus. Previously helping young people in a number of houses across four boroughs of London, Coram has reduced the geographic spread of this service, but increased the intensity of their support. The Coram Supported Housing service now focuses solely on Bexley, concentrating efforts on a small number of young people with very complex needs. These young people may have suffered traumatic adolescent years, meaning that Coram needs to provide more specialist support to help them to transition to independence and overcome their troubled pasts.

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Amy.In the UK 80,000 young people experience homelessness every year; one third of homeless people have lived in care.

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This change has given the Foundation the opportunity to refocus our financial support and help make a bigger impact on the lives of 600 vulnerable children and young people over a three-year period. Going forward, the Mace Foundation will be supporting Coram Voice, as we believe every child and young person should have a voice and be heard.

Coram Voice provides a lifeline to children and young people in the care system and those exiting the care system. This regional service ensures children’s wishes and feelings are heard within the systems in which they exist and is helping young people at risk of homelessness through outreach projects.

Mace employees have also been supporting Coram throughout the year by volunteering at Coram’s Secret Cinema fundraising events and their Inspiring Women event at The Foundling Museum.

Pro bono support has also been providing Coram invaluable advice to their ‘Individual Giving’ team and developing a logo for Coram’s Inspiring Women Chapter.

Following the success of last years’ fundraising dinner for the Mace Foundation and Coram held at The Foundling Museum, we hosted the dinner again this year for Mace’s corporate supply chain and raised £27,400 for both charities.

We also hosted a special adoption information evening at Mace’s London head office in October to mark National Adoption Week 2015. The session was run by Coram Adoption and was attended by 30 people who might be interested in adopting a child.

And finally, the Mace Foundation executive team had their first work experience placement this year which resulted in the young person being offered a full-time job with Coram’s fundraising team.

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Building back better in Nepal

In Nepal, the RedR family is working to help those affected by the earthquakes in the Spring of 2015 to rebuild their homes, infrastructure and livelihoods – and to build them back better, reducing the impact of future disasters.

Mace employees around the globe responded to the devastation of the Nepalese earthquakes by donating and raising funds for the RedR Nepal Appeal. Over £14,000 has been donated so far and the funds from this appeal have enabled RedR to provide training and mentoring to the NGOs in the region to assist with emergency shelter, water and sanitation and other life-saving activities.

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Skype training sessions next year for RedR employees. The team has developed a great relationship with RedR that is beneficial to both parties allowing Mace employees to use their volunteer days to develop their skill sets and feel good about making a real difference to a worthy cause.

Earlier this year, Mace teams in London, Dubai, South Africa and New York helped to raise funds and awareness of RedR by wearing red to work, bake sales and taking part in office ‘red’ games. With match funding they raised £3,600.

Communities

The Foundation’s partnership with RedR allows them to use our annual donation to support natural disasters and to date, a total of 449 aid workers from national and international NGOs have taken part in RedR training in Nepal.

“Mace staff from all over the world have been very generous in their support of RedR’s Nepal Earthquake Response, and the match funding provided by the Mace Foundation has been a motivation for Mace staff and very gratefully received by all of us at RedR. It will make a significant impact on our response, and allow us to deliver training in Nepal that makes sure communities can rebuild their lives and livelihoods following the recent earthquakes. I offer my sincere thanks to everyone at Mace who has supported our appeal.” Martin McCann, CEO RedR UK

Mace’s IT team has also been working with RedR throughout 2015 offering them valuable knowledge and skills to help them upgrade their IT infrastructure around the world. The team helped RedR develop a strategy to reduce operating costs and set up more efficiently and quickly in remote locations by moving to a cloud based infrastructure. Mace’s Group ICT Director Alan Webb has also introduced RedR to his supply chain partners and organised a free consultancy session with Microsoft. The IT team will continue to work with RedR and will be hosting

Nine Mace employees also volunteered at RedR’s prestigious BT Tower fundraising event and helped to raise over £40,000 for the charity.

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Making a difference with pro bono support

In it’s last financial year LandAid has awarded a tremendous £1,260,924 in grants to 23 charity projects which work towards improving the lives of children and young people in the UK who experience disadvantage due to their economic or social circumstances.

Mace employees have been supporting our partnership with LandAid by offering pro bono support on a number of funded projects including Birmingham YMCA, Freightliners Farm in Islington and Teach First More London.

Teach First aim to end inequality in education by building a community of exceptional leaders who create change within classrooms, schools and across society. They train and support committed individuals to become inspirational classroom leaders in low-income communities across England and Wales.

The charity help young people believe in themselves, and empower them to build a future they may not have believed possible. Each year, a new group of participants join the charity and their university partners for six weeks of intensive training before teaching in one of their partner schools for at least two years while completing a Leadership Development Programme. Their training and passion for educational equality means that they are dedicated to raising the aspirations of the young people in their classrooms.

Mace’s Director of Global Sports, Events & Venues Jon Pettifer has offered pro bono advice on the fit out of the space Teach First will move into in London; scoping the terms of work, cost estimates and tender evaluation – to support the charity to secure a good contractor and value for money.

“Jon has been an incredible support to me over the past few week as we look to set up the project. He has been on hand to provide expert advice around our project set up and particularly around procurement of the client team. His knowledge, experience and professionalism are exemplary and he has been invaluable in a mentoring capacity. He has gone way beyond what I would have expected and I am extremely grateful for the significant time he has invested in the project to date.” Gareth Williams, Teach First Associate Director – Facilities

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11 Mace employees put their fitness to the ultimate test in support of LandAid as they took part in their most adrenaline-fuelled event, the London TowerAthlon. In teams of three, they faced a gruelling static cycle, a fierce stair climb and a vertigo-inducing abseil at Broadgate Tower and helped to raise over £40,000 for the charity.

After the success of last year’s Construction Rocks in aid of LandAid Mace also entered two new bands; Omacesis and Stan Hope and the Macefits – to battle it out at the Construction Industries Battle of the Bands.

Omacesis, formly known as Comotosed, took home for the second year running, the Best Fundraiser Award and Stan Hope and the Macefits raised the roof with their rendition of the Beastie Boys classic, ‘You’ve Got To Fight For Your Right (To Party).’

The bands raised funds for LandAid and St Mungo’s Broadway a charity which provides a bed and support to more than 2,500 people a night who are either homeless or at risk in London.

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Talia.At the age of 22 Talia was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. She had been experiencing pains in her chest and difficulty breathing, as well as extreme tiredness and weight loss.

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Three years after her diagnosis Talia is in remission from cancer, enjoying married life and working full-time in Mace’s Human Resources department.

The Mace Foundation’s partnership with Teenage Cancer Trust has enabled us to support young people like Talia through their cancer journey. From funding a Teenage Cancer Trust Youth Support Coordinator who cares for the young people when they are receiving treatment on one of Teenage Cancer Trust’s units, offering family days and employment opportunities.

HEALTH & WELLBEING

Talia was one of the first participants of the Mace Foundation’s Teenage Cancer Trust’s ‘Experience Construction’ programme in 2014. The pilot programme saw nine young people in remission or receiving treatment for cancer attend the ‘Experience Construction’ week aimed to provide a window into the construction sector, as well as increase the young peoples’ confidence and self-efficacy. Following her ‘Experience’ Talia was offered a full-time job with Mace’s HR team and has been working with the team for 14 months.

Talia is now an ambassador for both the Mace Foundation and Teenage Cancer Trust, sharing her experiences with other young cancer patients and supporting work experience programmes and fundraising activities.

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A further two delegates from the pilot programme joined Mace this year to take up six month placements in pre-construction engineering and construction management to support their University degrees.

This year, we also hosted ‘Experience Construction’ for a group of young people in Manchester; giving them the opportunity to find out more about the construction industry and visit Mace projects – Oldham Leisure Centre, The Lowry Theatre and Christies Hospital. We also organised for a Teenage Cancer Trust patient to join Mace’s summer Careers in Construction event.

The Mace Foundation also funded ‘Move, Play, Explore’ at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in August 2015. This unique event, offered 60 Teenager Cancer Trust patients and their friends and family the opportunity to trial a range of sports and physical activities at two iconic venues from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – the Copper Box Arena and London Aquatics Centre.

Over 30 Mace employees volunteered at ‘Move, Play, Explore’ and were on hand to welcome over 160 people to the Copper Box Arena and encourage them to take part in a range of exciting sports including indoor rowing, volleyball, fencing, wheelchair basketball and swimming.

The event was delivered in partnership with Motivate East, London Legacy Development Corporation, UCLH, Royal Marsden, Teenage Cancer Trust and the Mace Foundation.

Wendy King, Consultant Nurse Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer, UCLH said: “The highlight for many of the visitors was being able to swim in the Olympic diving pool. It was the first time that some had been swimming since their diagnosis and treatment, and the huge water-polo game was just great. The whole day was a brilliant experience and clearly a ‘life changer’ for many young people and their families who attended – it is not every day you get to make that much of a difference.”

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Mace employees have really embraced our partnership with Teenage Cancer Trust participating in activities ranging from volunteering to fundraising. One hundred Mace employees have volunteered for Teenage Cancer Trust this year – shaking buckets at their annual Royal Albert Hall fundraising event, jumping out of aeroplanes, walking hundreds of miles and supporting our work experience programme.

25 brave Mace employees even took to the skies of Lincolnshire, joining 387 others, to smash a Guinness World Record for the most people tandem jumping 10,000ft in one day as part of the Skydive for Stephen event organised by Teenage Cancer Trust in honour of Stephen Sutton.

Among those taking part in the event was Stephen’s Mum, Jane, who said: “We all did Stephen proud today by smashing the Guinness World Record title and carrying on his fundraising legacy. Thank you to everyone who took part. Stephen was adventurous, had no fear and lived his life with no regrets. He would have been so impressed to see how many people he inspired to jump out of a plane today.”

Mace’s Ralph Neale was selected by Teenage Cancer Trust to run the marathon on their behalf and The Mace Pacers; Isabel McAllister, Guy Hunt, Mark Squire and Nick James walked, jogged and generally staggered around the perimeter of the Isle of Wight (65 miles) in 24 hours and raised an impressive £11,430.

Mace’s Tristam Nielsen, Matt Darby and Sean Clarke joined forces with the AME-C team from Mace’s client Jaguar Land Rover and took part in The Dark Peak Challenge. The team walked the gruelling 30 mile route in 10 hours and so far have raised £4,859.22 for the Trust.

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Being mindful

People experiencing mental health problems are some of the most vulnerable and socially excluded people in society. In any one year, one in four people experience a mental health problem – that’s around 16 million people in the UK. By 2020, depression will be the leading cause of health problems in Europe. Mind’s purpose is to better the everyday lives of those who may or do experience mental health problems, helping them to find the best sources of support.

The Mace Foundation donated £5,000 to Mind in 2015 to produce a short film called ‘What’s It Like’. This followed the lives of four people with mental health problems showcasing the different levels of supported housing offered and their

day to day challenges. The film will be released later this year and has the potential to reach over six million people.

Mind has been chosen by Mace employees as their Charity of the Year 2016 and will therefore receive a donation of £25,000. Throughout 2016 the Mace Foundation will work on quarterly campaigns with Mind to raise mental health awareness across Mace, as well as providing volunteering and fundraising events for Mace people to get involved in.

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Transforming lives through sport

Our partnership with WheelPower has enabled us to help 1,000 young disabled people aged 11–18, like Reece, experience sports through ‘Time to Shine’, a four-day residential programme at Stoke Mandeville Stadium where they can take part in new sports, build lifelong friendships and gain new life skills.

Reece first joined ‘Time to Shine’ in 2014 and he was back again this year to have fun with his friends and try new sports in a safe and inclusive environment including his favourite; wheelchair basketball.

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The ‘Time to Shine’ events could not run without the support of a dedicated team of organisers and volunteers, and this year we were fortunate enough to have the help of 41 Mace employees, who were on hand to help support sports coaches and encourage young people to trial a range of sports from wheelchair basketball, through to fencing and sitting volleyball.

Culture, Heritage & Sport

Mace has also given pro bono support to WheelPower in 2015 by delivering an RIBA Stage 2 – Concept Design for the redevelopment of Stoke Mandeville Stadium and residential facilities. This work was supported by Mace’s supply chain partners Shepherd Robson, Ramboll and Chapman Bathhurst.

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Reece.Reece Dimond is an 11-year old boy with DCD dyspraxia; a condition that affects his physical coordination.

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Boosting community access to the arts around the world

The Mace Foundation is committed to supporting wider access to community arts and culture programmes and has made donations in 2015 to Tate’s Access and Community Programmes in London and The Zeitz Mocca Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa.

A £75,000 donation to Tate’s Access and Community Programmes, spread over three years, will help those who face the greatest barriers to further their participation in the arts.

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The donation is designed to engage up to 3,000 people each year from hard to reach audiences, including elders’ organisations, mental health service users and local community groups through a programme of bespoke workshops, one-off events and community partnerships. Disadvantaged community groups from across all 32 London boroughs will also have access to tailored programmes.

The tailored gallery-based visits facilitated by Tate Access mean that visitors with, for instance, restricted hearing or sight, can enjoy an enhanced experience. The Tate also focuses on working with disabled artists to provide disability specific training while investing in research and innovation to share their experiences and findings across the sector.

Staying with the arts theme, and linked to the work that Mace is doing in South Africa to transform the historic and iconic Grain Silo building in Cape Town to the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, the Mace Foundation has made a £12,500 donation to the Zeitz MOCAA. This will be a new public not-for-profit cultural institution – the first major Museum in Africa.

The Museum will provide unlimited possibilities for permanent and rotating exhibitions. Considered the most extensive and representative collection of contemporary art from Africa, it includes artists such as Marlene Dumas, William Kentridge, Hank Willis Thomas, Chris Ofili, Isaac Julien, Julie Mehretu and Wangchi Mutu.

The programmes offered at Zeitz MOCAA will allow children, adults and artists to engage with and explore Contemporary Art from Africa and its widely dispersed population through education and outreach programmes, academic support, and supplementary tuition, encouraging people to ask questions about culture, the environment and society.

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This year has largely been a year of consolidation; we have set a strategy that will take us through to 2020, furthered our relationships with our charity partners and made a major push to expand our volunteering programme. All of which has been incredibly successful.

So in 2016 we will be building on this – focusing our efforts on strengthening our strategic partnerships, extending our international activities, and aligning a charity of the year, as selected by Mace employees.

The Mace Foundation is a UK registered charity, working independently of the Mace Group. The trustees have a responsibility to ensure that they always act independently and in accordance with our charitable objectives.

Looking ahead to 2016

We are reflecting our corporate make up and creating opportunities for Mace people to make a difference to the communities in which they work around the world. The emphasis on our volunteering programme means involving people in all Mace’s regional hubs. Our more focused approach means that all of our support and activity is now grouped into three areas, which we believe we can make the biggest difference:

Communities

Recognising Mace’s corporate responsibility strategy, the Foundation is dedicated to supporting the communities in where Mace makes an impact. We identify programmes where we can effectively give back to people and invest in the long term support of the wider parts of our communities.

Education and employment

Mace and the Mace Foundation are committed to inspiring young people, by helping to break down the barriers to employment. We believe we can play an active role in supporting disadvantaged people from an early age and helping people to build rewarding careers.

Health and wellbeingMaking a difference to the lives of people impacted by health and welling issues by helping to improve awareness, support research and care programmes.

And, of course, the Mace Foundation will continue to react to new requests for support and to support other initiatives from Mace employees and our strategic partners.

Mike Hanson, Mace Foundation CEO


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2020defined opportunities

created for people in the communities in which

Mace works

35%supply chain and

consultant engagement £

50%Mace employees actively engaged and participating

in volunteering and fundraising

£3mdonated to charities and/or

worthy causes that support the Foundation’s

strategic themes

To have established the Foundation as an effective and highly

regarded charity

30%client

engagement

OUR 2020 GOALS

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A J Morrisroe & Sons LimitedAlandale Logistics LimitedAvivaBachy SolentacheBDL GroupBDOBenchmark ScaffoldingBlu-3Briggs Amasco LimitedBrown & CarrollBrowne JacobsonBuster CommunicationsByrne BrosChantrey VellacottColemansCunningham LindseyDhesi GroupDome Consulting Dornan Engineering Services LimitedDowlissElliott ThomasEssex Services Group PlcFCm Travel SolutionsFirecladGKR Scaffolding Limited

Grants GroupGrimes FurnishingsHall & Kay Fire EngineeringHenry ConstructionIn the Dark ProductionsIn-Press PhotographyISG ConstructionJ Coffey ConstructionKeltbray LimitedKelwayLexington CateringLocktonLondon Communications AgencyLucasLyons & AnnootMace FinanceMace LogisticsMasterson Holdings LimitedMeasomsMichale Lonsdale GroupModular InteriorsMPB StructuresNabarroNG BaileyOctink

O’Keefe ConstructionOlive Communications PC Harrington GroupPJ CareyPlanteria GroupPrater LimitedPrivate DramaProactRadley YeldarReal Time Civil EngineeringRI WorksSchindlerSeverfield plcSmartComm LimitedSpeedy ServicesT ClarkeTarget Site Services LimitedThe Montcalm Luxury Hotels GroupVacherin LimitedW S AtkinsWingateWysePowerZurich

FRIENDS OF THE MACE FOUNDATION

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“Thank you so much for the Mace Foundation’s generous donation of £2,500 to Anthony Nolan as part of the Dig Deep Construction Challenge event. Your wonderful support has provided more than 15,000 bone marrow or blood stem cell transplants including 1,200 last year.”

Laura Parsell, Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager, Anthony Nolan

Mace Foundation Trustees

• Mark Reynolds, Chairman• Amy Chapman• James Harbord• Simon Healey• Clare Lewis• Hannah Livesey• Isabel McAllister• El Mangan• Debbi Reynolds• Barbara Welch • Shaun Tate

The Mace Foundation Executive Management team

• Mike Hanson, CEO • Jo Drummond,

Senior Fundraising, Engagement & Communications Manager

• Sophie Attree, Finance & Planning Manager

• Rachel Wheeler, Mace Foundation Assistant Manager

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Trustees’ statement on summary financial information

The summary financial information included within this report is intended to demonstrate the source of the Mace Foundation’s income and to explain the expenditure in the period to 31 December 2015; the figures should not be used in lieu of the full annual accounts. The annual accounts are not available at the time of printing this report and the figures included within this report are unaudited. The full annual report and accounts, including the trustees’ report, will be available in due course through the Charity Commission website.

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