Corporate responsibility

Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP with a baby

Above: In December, we gave £1 million to 91 children’s charities, chosen by staff and readers of the Daily Mail. Children’s Minister, Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP handed over £100,000 to the winning charity, Tommy’s.


Below: Ulster Bank’s musical outreach programme is designed to nurture young primary school talent across the island of Ireland. Children from St Paul’s Junior National School in Dublin enjoy their workshop.

Children from St Paul's Junior National School with musical instruments

RBS is a responsible company. We carry out rigorous research so that we can be confident we know the issues that are most important to our stakeholders and we take practical steps to respond to what they tell us. In 2007 we extended that research, engaging more fully the stakeholders of Ulster Bank and RBS Insurance, and stakeholders in the US. In this section we outline some of our stakeholders’ priorities and describe the actions we have taken in response.

  • £57.7 million invested in our communities during 2007
  • Employee double matching programmes extended to the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific
  • RBS achieved the highest AAA rating from Innovest for managing social and environmental risks
  • 100% of electricity purchased in the UK and for the island of Ireland came from renewable energy sources

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