What we give in London
The majority of our community and pro bono work is in our largest office, London, where nearly 40 per cent of our people are based. Our longest-standing pro bono partnership began in 1973, with our support for the Tower Hamlets Legal Advice Centre, a drop-in centre for people who live in this deprived area of London. Our volunteering programmes with homeless organisations and schools began in 2000 and 1999, respectively.
| What we have given (London office) excluding management costs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | 2002/3 | 2003/4 | 2004/5 | 2005/6 | 2006/7 |
| Cash | 296,653 | 246,500 | 245,949 | 481,994 | 490,447 |
| Gifts in kind | 69,430 | 29,398 | 201,708 | 139,320 | 96,668 |
| Time | 1,237,353 | 1,656,836 | 1,664,869 | 2,202,250 | 1,950,472 |
| Total | 1,603,436 | 1,932,734 | 2,112,526 | 2,823,564 | 2,537,587 |
Our London figures for 2006/7:
- The value of community time was over £347,000 and pro bono over £1.6m. Please note that the London Benchmarking Group (LBG) model values time spent providing pro bono legal expertise as greater than general community volunteering time.
- The value of our programme in 2005/6 reflects the pro bono advice we gave to the 2012 Olympic bid and the United Nations Environment Programme, as well as emergency relief following the 2004 Tsunami.
Our community and pro bono data has been compiled according to LBG measurement principles. The LBG model was developed by a group of businesses in 1995 as an internal evaluation tool and a way to ensure greater consistency and comparability in external reporting. Today more than 100 leading international businesses apply the model around the world. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has been an active member since 2002.
Our application of the LBG model has been assured by The Corporate Citizenship Company.