Charity and community investment
Flying Start
Flying Start, is our long standing charity partnership with Comic Relief. Together, our customers and colleagues have raised millions of pounds to help people living through the most challenging of times, in the UK and around the world. Thanks to your generosity so far – and the incredible fundraising efforts of British Airways employees – we’ve raised over £30 million in support of Flying Start, which has helped Comic Relief to reach over 1.1 million people.
BA Better World Community Fund
Our BA Better World Community Fund delivers life-changing opportunities in the communities we serve, enabling us to support projects that deliver benefits for community engagement, diversity and inclusion, wellbeing, and working to protect biodiversity and nature.
Helping communities respond in times of crisis
In times of crisis, both in the UK and internationally, we work with partners, including the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the British Red Cross, to ensure that vital relief gets to where it’s needed as quickly as possible.
Our partnership with the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) ensures that vital relief gets to where it’s needed, as soon as possible. The DEC brings together 14 leading UK aid agencies to raise vital funds when there’s a humanitarian crisis. By working together as a member of the DEC’s Rapid Response Network, we raise funds to save, protect, and rebuild lives in communities that are impacted by major disasters. Since 2013, we’ve supported 14 humanitarian crisis appeals.
In the UK, we work in partnership with the British Red Cross to support communities affected by emergencies, from extreme weather to house fires. Our support helps to recruit, train and support British Red Cross staff and volunteers to help those in crisis with basic necessities, like first aid, food and shelter, as well as providing emotional support.
Supporting our colleagues
Alongside these partnerships, we help our colleagues to support other causes close to their hearts through our accredited payroll giving and match funding schemes, through which we provide support to more than 600 different charities every year.
If you’d like to get in touch please email us on community.branch@ba.com
Terms and Conditions
This is an entirely voluntary scheme where customers can make donations to community projects and charities.
These terms and conditions relate to donations made to the BA Better World Community Fund during the booking process. This is an entirely voluntary scheme where customers can make Donations to help support BA Better World Community Fund Charity partners. These donations are collected by British Airways and passed in their entirety by British Airways to independent not for profit Charities, which will identify such projects.
1.Definitions
"BA Better World Community Fund" (also known as “the Community Fund”) is the name for the scheme that will collect and pass on donations made by our customers to the Charities.
"Donation" means your voluntary contribution for participation in the BA Better World Community Fund.
“Charity” means any not-for-profit third-party charity or charities that may be appointed by British Airways now or in the future to select and administer any projects supported by Donations from British Airways customers.
"Grant" means an award of monies on a non-repayment basis to the agreed projects or activity.
2. Your Donation
British Airways will choose the Charities from time to time and you can see a list of sample Charities here. British Airways reserves the sole discretion to select the Charities that will receive any Donation monies from the BA Better World Community Fund.
3. BA Better World British Airways Community Fund
- The whole of your Donation will be passed onto the Charities.
- The Charity will use the Donations to support its own projects.
- Please note that BA will decide which Charities your Donation will support.
- Donations are a one-off payment and are non-refundable.
British Airways does not retain any part of your Donation, nor does it derive any revenue or profit whatsoever from the operation of the BA Better World Community Fund.
As this is a global scheme, Gift Aid cannot be added to donations at the point of sale.
If the Charity ceases to operate, the Charity and British Airways shall agree how the monies may be dispersed or refunded, which in any case will be to organisations operating in the area retained by the Charity as a Grant for general charitable purposes. British Airways and the Charity reserves the sole discretion to select the organisations or projects that will receive any final BA Better World Community Fund monies. BA reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time. Any updates will be posted here so please check back regularly. The governing law is that of England and Wales.