PwC Ireland has announced charity partnerships with Focus Ireland and Simon Community Ireland as part of a new three-year social impact strategy.
The initiative is intended to reaffirm PwC’s commitment to promoting socially inclusive, equitable, and connected communities, both within the organisation and beyond.
PwC will contribute funding to Focus Ireland’s Preparation for Education, Training & Employment programme, which helps the most marginalised and hardest to reach in society to access education and employment supports.
For Simon Community NI, PwC funding will go towards shelter and accommodation projects.
Both charities will also benefit from employee fundraising which the firm will match throughout the partnerships so that every euro raised or donated by PwC employees is doubled.
Education and youth are the two core themes of PwC’s social impact strategy, and the company has created tailored student support initiatives for those in post primary schools in the North East Inner City and in Access programmes at third level.
The aim …