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Charity of the Year

Hempsons employees vote for the firm’s Charity of the Year. The firm then commits to raise funds for that charity. This year our charity of choice is the Alzheimer's Society and it is accordingly on behalf of them that the Committee raise money. They need our donations to support their various campaigns and to continue to fund their activities.   

Alzheimer's Society is a membership organisation, which works to improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.  

www.alzheimers.org.uk

We have raised money for their projects by various fun activities including dress down days, cake baking competitions and a Wii tennis Championship.

Pathways to Law

Hempsons offer work placements to law students from non-privileged backgrounds as part of the Pathways to Law programme provided by the Sutton Trust and The College of Law through leading UK Universities. The programme is designed to attract fresh talent to the legal profession by targeting students from state schools who will be the first in their family to attend university, and whose parents are in non-professional occupations.

http://www.suttontrust.com/universityprojects.asp

ALARM

We host the Association of Litigation and Risk Management (ALARM) meetings in our London offices.  ALARM is an independent, ‘not-for-profit’ organisation with national recognition, which was set up in the early 90’s. ALARM is administered through the Academic Department of the Royal Society of Medicine  provides support and professional development, to the nominated representatives of its member healthcare organisations, the majority of which are from NHS primary or secondary care trusts. Representative members drawn from clinical and corporate governance, risk, litigation, complaints management, medical directors, and other senior health care managers are nominated by their member organisations.

www.alarm-uk.org

ACEVO

We also host meetings for the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO).  ACEVO is the professional body for the Third Sectors Chief Executives with over 2000 members.  They connect, develop, represent and support leaders to improve the sectors impact and efficiency.  They aim to promote a modern enterprising Third Sector and encourage continuous improvement and sustainable development.

www.acevo.org.uk

Book Donations

We regularly donate our previous years' law books to Charity.  This year they are being sent to the British Council for distribution in Iraqi Universities. The aim is to reconnect Iraqi academics with the wider academic and scientific community from whom they had been completely isolated for more than a decade.  Widespread looting at the beginning of the war left many faculties and departments with literally no texts.  The programme came to an end in March this year but in previous years we have donated books to Africa and we will continue with the programme next year although it may be by way of donations to a different charity.

Volunteering

We are looking into developing a volunteering scheme for our staff and have several proposals that are currently under discussion.