IPC Media - Schools' Design Programme

The IPC Schools’ Design Programme aims to encourage students to consider a career in magazine design and to raise their aspirations. It targets secondary school students in Southwark, involves several IPC designers using and passing on their skills and culminates in a week’s work experience at IPC.

IPC Media's investment:

£39,000 in cash (£24,000 funded by our parent company, Time Warner); £6,000 time; magazine copies

Project Achievements:

Around 80 students have so far had the chance to work at IPC and to gain an insight into magazine design. The programme also helps schools to better understand the workplace and to prepare students for future career decisions. IPC gains access to potential future employees and the opportunity to nurture the company’s future talent pool, and art editors are able to pass on their knowledge and develop their own skills.

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Next Event

What: Financial Services Sub-group Meeting 24/03/2010

When: 24 March, 2010

Location: Corporate Citizenship, Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn, London WC1V 7QG.

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LBG : Benefits of the LBG

Benefits of the LBG

The LBG model provides a comprehensive and consistent set of measures for corporate community involvement professionals to determine their company’s contribution to the community.

Companies that join the LBG and apply the LBG model find that it can benefit the measurement and management of their community programmes in a number of ways.

These include:

  • A complete understanding of the scale and value of the company's investment in to the community - In several cases members applying the model have seen the value of their community contributions almost double.
  • Assessment of what the company’s investment achieves - The model looks beyond the input costs of community investment to assess what this actually achieves for both the company and the community
  • Better management of the community programme – Application of the model provides the information to assess how the programme achieves its objectives or fits with business goals
  • Take better decisions on future investments - The model provides a simple matrix for assessing the project achievements to feed into the decision making process
  • Better communication, internally and externally - Simple summary information to communicate the community programme and its achievements.