Our primary themes are enterprise, improving academic attainment and civic engagement, free access to legal advice for those who would otherwise be unable to afford it and support for the arts.
Please use the links below to see how we try to support our local community:
Support for young people
We have a long history of supporting young people in communities local to our London office, including:
- Hackney Schools Mentoring Programme - providing volunteers to support teenagers from our nearest borough
- Reading and Number Partners Scheme - playing our part in the literacy and numeracy curriculum of a local primary school
- The Brokerage Citylink - CVs, career planning and workshops on what it's like to work in the City
- Twinning Scheme - volunteers work with young people in schools to help them learn about law and current legal and moral issues
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Support for community groups
Where possible we try to align our support with existing local and national government strategies for community development and regeneration. Here are just some examples of organisations receiving recent or ongoing support:
- East London Business Alliance - through our membership of ELBA we provide advice and support to a range of charities, small business and social enterprise operating in the boroughs close to our London office
- HBV Enterprise - legal advice to a charity encouraging the development of small business and social enterprise in London
- Citizenship Foundation - legal advice to a charity that helps young people to understand the role of legal and parliamentary institutions
- Islington Law Centre - legal advice to clients of the law centre, who would otherwise be unable to access justice or legal redress.
- A4ID - free legal assistance to civil society, developing country governments, social enterprises and bar associations to help achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals. Through A4ID, CMS Cameron McKenna has provided pro bono advice to over 20 NGOs and charities over the past two years, ranging from intellectual property to international environmental law.
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Support for charities
Our firm supports a number of initiatives to encourage direct charitable giving including:
- Charity of the year - selected each year via staff nomination. In 2009 the firms employees raised over £135,000 for Kids Company providing support to over 14,000 vulnerable inner-city children and young people. In 2010 we look forward to working with Macmillan, who provide practical and financial support to people and their families who are affected by cancer
- Payroll giving - employees enrolled in the firm's scheme contribute over £84,000 p.a. to 170+ charities
- Matched giving - employees taking part in charitable fundraising events can apply for match funding from the firm
- Central Charitable Fund - the firm provides a fund of money each year that can be divested to causes that correspond with our key themes
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Support for arts and heritage
Corporate support for the arts can be critical in a competitive funding environment and where organisations find it difficult to expend resource on professional support. Our support includes:
- Donmar Warehouse - funding 200 inner-London drama students through creative writing workshops at one of the UK's most innovative theatres
- National Theatre - corporate member
- Hackney Empire - corporate member
- National Museum of Warsaw - legal advice relating to the acquisition of new works of art
- St Paul's Cathedral Foundation - membership of the foundation supporting the restoration of the symbol of the City of London
- Hidden Art - free legal advice to this organisation that supports and promotes UK designers and designer-makers
- Photographic Competition - competition for young people from schools in: Hackney and Tower Hamlet students attend workshops, develop photographic skills and their work is entered into the competition
- English National Ballet - official European sponsor
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