Community

Everyone who joins us is invited to get involved in our community program, which is focused on pro bono work, homelessness, education and special team challenges.

In the US, we support local communities through team challenges run in partnership with a number of organizations.

In New York we work regularly with New York Cares, to give back to our city's less fortunate inhabitants. Volunteers also help The Yorkville Common Pantry, providing emergency food to homeless people on the Upper East Side and in East Harlem. Once a week, a group of employees spend their lunch hour helping sixth grade students develop their thinking skills as part of an initiative run by Learning Leaders and PS 72 in Harlem.

In Washington DC, volunteers take part in team challenges throughout the year, working with organizations such as the Salvation Army. Employees here are also involved with local schools as reading partners.

In London, volunteers contributed over 7,100 hours to a wide range of community activities in the past year. Employees created three gardens; encouraged, supported and informed around 450 children at Redlands Primary School and 1,000 pupils at Haggerston School for Girls; and provided support and advice to over 100 homeless people and work experience to over 20 people, including homeless people, teachers and pupils at local schools and colleges.

We provide community service at an international level by partnering with organizations such as Habitat for Humanity. In 2006, several employees from the New York office joined a Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer team in South Africa to help build homes for families whose lives have been devastated by HIV/AIDS. Teams from our London office participate every year.