KPMG's Corporate Responsibility Team

KPMG’s 20-person Corporate Responsibility (CR) Team use our skills and expertise to boost social mobility and drive sustainable environmental change, through convening, collaborating, research, pro-bono, and volunteering.

Our long-term approach is aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), namely SDG 4: Quality Education and SDG 13: Climate Action through our strategic pillars: 1. Social mobility in the community: creating opportunities by harnessing the power of education; recognising numeracy, literacy and lifelong learning as the building blocks for social mobility. 2. Strategic philanthropy: tackling disadvantage through strategic charity partnerships, funding, and expertise. 3. Environment: driving sustainable environmental change.

2023 achievements: 

- Reached 173,500 beneficiaries vs 64,837 in 2022. 

- 8,500+ colleagues volunteered or fundraised - almost 50% of FTE’s. 

- Colleagues spent over 105,000 hours on community activities – +37% from 2022. 

- Raised and donated almost £800k through fundraising and payroll giving. 

- Value of support for our national charity partner, Marie Curie, surpassed £1.2m in fundraising and pro bono since the partnership began in 2022. 

- Overall community contribution of £12.7 million, up from £11.3 million in 2022. Achieved our 2024 target of using only renewable electricity one-year early. 

- A rating for CDP Climate Change disclosure - placing in top 2% of companies.