Community
Supporting communities worldwide
Our community and conservation work
At British Airways, we support over 130 Community and Conservation organisations by offering them free flights, by allowing members to carry excess baggage, by helping them transport cargo and also through donating blankets to orphanages, hospices, old people's homes and even animal sanctuaries.
Change for Good
Our award winning Change for Good programme, in partnership with UNICEF, has raised more than £25m since 1994 and has changed the lives of thousands of children around the world.
Support for causes in the UK
Community relations in the UK
At British Airways, we have a Community Relations department which works closely with our community partners at Heathrow, Gatwick and in other areas of the UK. The Community Relations department decides which local projects we are best placed to support and works out how best to help them.
Our Community Learning Centre
The British Airways Community Learning Centre has welcomed over 47,000 visitors since it opened in 1999.
Support for employees in their charity work
At British Airways, we believe in recognising and rewarding staff who volunteer for a community organisation or a charity in their own time. This is why we've established the British Airways Community Volunteering Awards. Over the past four years alone, we have donated £270,000 to charities through this scheme.
Awards and recognition
- In 2006-7, the Business in the Community Percent Standard valued our contribution to local and global community and conservation organisations at £6.3m.
- We received the 2006 Travel and Leisure Global Visions award in recognition of our work 'defending the cultural, ecological and historic treasures of the traveller's world'.
Willie Walsh in Africa
Willie Walsh in Africa for Change for Good milestone.
He was in the country to celebrate the £25 million that has now been raised through the Change for Good partnership between British Airways and UNICEF.
Sreepur village
Buy your greeting cards online and every penny you spend will directly benefit the destitute women and abandoned children of Sreepur village, Bangladesh.