HIGHLAND PARK ‘GIVE MORE’ TO THE COMMUNITY!
30 July 2019
Highland Park got together with 20 of Orkney’s registered charities on July 11th at the Ayre Hotel to showcase their ‘Giving more’ scheme. The event was organised in conjunction with Voluntary Action Orkney to allow local charities to promote their organisations to Highland Park’s employees.
Highland park is owned by Edrington – one of Scotland’s largest private companies and owner of several well-known whisky brands.
Edrington in turn are owned by the Robertson Trust. The Trust uses the dividends from its controlling shareholding in Edrington for the benefit of Scotland’s people and communities. This unique business model provides the scheme “Giving More” to its employees.
Each one of the fulltime employees within Edrington are encouraged to get involved in their local community with registered Scottish charities either through fundraising activities or through time given and are supported up to £5,000 per employee.
Edrington and the Robertson Trust also match fund any fundraising activity that the employee takes part in/organises for any registered charity.
The event was a great success with lots of networking, enthusiastic conversations and pledging of support from the employees!
After all this hard work some of the Highland Park employees found the time to nip down to the Clan gardens and help them out with painting the fencing!
