Our Stories
£50,000 donated by Ardonagh Community Trust to causes put forward by colleagues
21 December 2022
Last week, Ardonagh colleagues across the Group came together to take part in our biggest annual charity event, Give Back, yet to celebrate five years of Ardonagh Community Trust (ACT). Find out grand totals and photos shared by teams and offices around the world! Read more
Over £170,000 and counting raised for more than 90 charities this Give Back
13 December 2022
Last week, Ardonagh colleagues across the Group came together to take part in our biggest annual charity event, Give Back, yet to celebrate five years of Ardonagh Community Trust (ACT). Find out grand totals and photos shared by teams and offices around the world! Read more
Spectacular grand total at the Ardonagh Community Trust Gala Dinner 2022
18 October 2022
Last week, members of Ardonagh, industry leaders and business partners joined together for the Ardonagh Community Trust (ACT) Gala Dinner to celebrate five years since the creation of our company charity and to raise a grand total of £912,074 to ensure ACT can continue to give back to the causes that matter to our Ardonagh colleagues worldwide. We share highlights from the night and the total raised for our spotlight cause, Cancer Fund for Children’s Daisy Lodge. Read more
Behind the scenes at suicide prevention charity, James Place
10 October 2022
For World Mental Health Day, we’re taking a look behind the scenes at James’ Place, a charity that supports men in crisis and which Ardonagh Community Trust made a donation to following the extraordinary actions of two Ardonagh colleagues to support a man in crisis. Read more
Meet our Bright Future Prize 2022 winners!
06 October 2022
After receiving applications from teenagers around the world, we’re ready to reveal the winners of the Ardonagh Community Trust Bright Future Prize 2022! They will share a prize fund of £40,000 to turn their fantastic ideas for community projects into a reality. Meet the young people from the UK, Ireland and USA whose brilliant ideas include teaching martial arts to senior citizens, neurodiversity hubs, an eco-friendly wooden wind turbine kit, a town’s first LGBTQ+ Pride event and upcycling school uniform. Read more
Ardonagh Community Trusts gives over £45,000 to ten causes nominated by colleagues
22 September 2022
Ten causes have received over £45,000 of from Ardonagh Community Trust after being put forward for an ACT Community Grant by Ardonagh colleagues – ranging from a project to teach rowing to members of the deaf and blind community, a football club in aid of father’s who have experienced baby loss, and repairs to a local community and youth theatre. Hear from the colleagues who nominated them and why the causes are special. Read more
Meet our Final Two Bright Future Finalists, Ella and Akanksha!
05 September 2022
Watch videos from our final two finalists. Akanksha from Georgia, USA, who aspires to use art to connect young and old to combat isolation, plus Ella from London, who want to use her experience in environmentalism to create a network of eco hubs in schools across disadvantaged areas of the city. Read more
Hear from our Bright Future Prize finalists! Meet Muhammad and Eloise
30 August 2022
We’re sharing videos from each of our ACT Bright Future Prize 2022 finalists! In our penultimate instalment, we hear from Muhammad in Blackburn, who through social enterprise Uniformity is upcycling clothes to fund a school food bank, and Eloise from Yorkshire, who through the LGBTQ+ she founded aspires to create her hometown’s first ever Pride celebration. Read more
Our finalist showcase continues! Get to know Sci Squad and Kaydi
23 August 2022
Over the next month, we’re sharing videos from each of our ACT Bright Future Prize 2022 finalists! Find out more about their brilliant ideas for community projects. This week is the turn of Sci Squad from London who are inspiring the next generation of scientists through robotics and Kaydi from Scotland who has big plans to support neurodiverse teens just like her. Read more
Our finalist showcase begins! Meet Jeffrey and Sara
15 August 2022
We’re sharing videos from each of our ACT Bright Future Prize 2022 finalists! Find out more about each of our teens and their brilliant ideas for community projects. First up is Jeffrey from the USA who wants to create a documentary film about his inspiring ‘ninja nannas’ and Sara from Ireland who has an amazing design for wooden wind turbines. Read more