As well as helping households save money, we aim to make a positive difference to our people, the wider community and the environment.
In early 2022, our colleagues voted to support CALM – Campaign Against Living Miserably – as our charity partner.
We stand together with CALM, united against suicide, and have donated over £136k to support the CALM helpline answer over 17,000 calls in 2023 as well as reaching millions through their campaigns and online resources.
We actively champion partner charities as well as supporting the communities in which we operate. Through our partnerships with CALM and the MSE Charity, we strive to broaden and deepen our impact and create a legacy, targeting our support to those most in need.
Charity partners
Campaign Against Living Miserably
Our work to benefit our communities shifted focus in 2022 as we began our partnership with Campaign Against Living Miserably, known as CALM, a suicide prevention charity.
Through this work, we strive to broaden and deepen our impact and create a legacy, targeting our support to those most in need. Colleague engagement with CALM has been phenomenal, with fundraising events from gig nights to golf competitions and weightlifting challenges, culminating in 38 employees taking part in a charity trek in Cambodia on behalf of the charity. Across 2023, we donated just short of £137,000 of our two-year £150,000 target and due to the level of engagement, we will be extending the partnership and upping the fundraising target into 2025.
We have donated over £136,000 to CALM via fundraising initiatives, including a trek across Cambodia. This equates to 17,000 potentially life-saving calls to CALM’s helpline."
Marianna Maniatakis
Group Charity Partnership Lead
CALM Charity Trek
At the end of 2022, CALM won the employee vote to become MONY Group’s new charity partner. Together, we’re working to tackle one of the biggest risk factors for suicide – worrying about money. We’ll combine our expertise in saving money and CALM’s experience in running life-saving services to make sure people get help when they need it. Throughout 2023, colleagues have been fundraising for the cause, but no single fundraising effort has been more successful than our five-day trek through the Cambodian jungle.
On a few of the days it was like a walk through the ‘I’m a Celebrity’ jungle with spiders the size of your hand.
We were walking 18–22 kilometres each day and one day it got to 42 degrees, but the hardest part was the humidity – you were just sweating all the time, and nothing would dry in the 97–100% humidity!
The sentiment that was going through the group when we were walking was ‘this is hot, but I am having such a great time seeing and experiencing the culture and knowing what we’re doing is making an impact’. At the end of the day, they are all lifesavers, supporting a cause that’s there to help people who have reached crisis point.
There was a lot of time for reflection on the trip, including some people who have personal experience of bereavement through suicide. When we got to the Angkor Wat temple, we took a moment of reflection for those people we may have lost and what CALM stands for . I did see a lot more emotion than I’d expected with a lot of people brought to tears – maybe it hit home as to what they’d achieved.
This was the biggest international fundraising event I’ve run in terms of participation from colleagues. I can’t express how grateful I am to be able to organise and take part in these incredible challenges each year.
It’s taken a lot of hard work and understanding and I’m so thankful to MONY Group for supporting me. Knowing you’re making a difference for a charity and helping colleagues to do something totally out of their comfort zone, all on top of my day job, is very fulfilling.”
Liam Power
Lead Product Manager
MONY Group
MSE Charity
MoneySavingExpert continued to donate funds to the MSE Charity, donating £100,000. Rather than engaging in specific projects itself, the charity offers grants of up to £7,500 to support non-profit organisations, such as a social enterprise or a registered charity, with specific money education projects. Help is given to a range of organisations, from small grassroots groups to more mainstream charities. The MSE Charity has two themed grant-giving rounds a year and four themes that rotate through a two-year cycle. Its themes include building and developing resilience, life‑changing transitions and living with long-term challenges. Full details of the recipients can be found at www.msecharity.com.
.Community
In addition, .Community, set up to support small-scale grassroots local charities, has donated to 34 causes this year, totalling £22,585 in donations.
The Group has made diverse donations to community groups, pre-schools, playgroups and charities such as those supporting autism, stillbirth and neonatal death (Sands). Our contributions extend to healthcare initiatives like the Royal Liverpool’s Knifesavers programme and neurodiversity resources for schools. Through the community fund, we empower Group members to make a positive impact on surrounding communities, continuously seeking new ways to provide support.
Campaign Against Living Miserably
Our work to benefit our communities shifted focus in 2022 as we began our partnership with Campaign Against Living Miserably, known as CALM, a suicide prevention charity.
Through this work, we strive to broaden and deepen our impact and create a legacy, targeting our support to those most in need. Colleague engagement with CALM has been phenomenal, with fundraising events from gig nights to golf competitions and weightlifting challenges, culminating in 38 employees taking part in a charity trek in Cambodia on behalf of the charity. Across 2023, we donated just short of £137,000 of our two-year £150,000 target and due to the level of engagement, we will be extending the partnership and upping the fundraising target into 2025.
We have donated over £136,000 to CALM via fundraising initiatives, including a trek across Cambodia. This equates to 17,000 potentially life-saving calls to CALM’s helpline."
Marianna Maniatakis
Group Charity Partnership Lead
CALM Charity Trek
At the end of 2022, CALM won the employee vote to become MONY Group’s new charity partner. Together, we’re working to tackle one of the biggest risk factors for suicide – worrying about money. We’ll combine our expertise in saving money and CALM’s experience in running life-saving services to make sure people get help when they need it. Throughout 2023, colleagues have been fundraising for the cause, but no single fundraising effort has been more successful than our five-day trek through the Cambodian jungle.
On a few of the days it was like a walk through the ‘I’m a Celebrity’ jungle with spiders the size of your hand.
We were walking 18–22 kilometres each day and one day it got to 42 degrees, but the hardest part was the humidity – you were just sweating all the time, and nothing would dry in the 97–100% humidity!
The sentiment that was going through the group when we were walking was ‘this is hot, but I am having such a great time seeing and experiencing the culture and knowing what we’re doing is making an impact’. At the end of the day, they are all lifesavers, supporting a cause that’s there to help people who have reached crisis point.
There was a lot of time for reflection on the trip, including some people who have personal experience of bereavement through suicide. When we got to the Angkor Wat temple, we took a moment of reflection for those people we may have lost and what CALM stands for . I did see a lot more emotion than I’d expected with a lot of people brought to tears – maybe it hit home as to what they’d achieved.
This was the biggest international fundraising event I’ve run in terms of participation from colleagues. I can’t express how grateful I am to be able to organise and take part in these incredible challenges each year.
It’s taken a lot of hard work and understanding and I’m so thankful to MONY Group for supporting me. Knowing you’re making a difference for a charity and helping colleagues to do something totally out of their comfort zone, all on top of my day job, is very fulfilling.”
Liam Power
Lead Product Manager
MONY Group
MSE Charity
MoneySavingExpert continued to donate funds to the MSE Charity, donating £100,000. Rather than engaging in specific projects itself, the charity offers grants of up to £7,500 to support non-profit organisations, such as a social enterprise or a registered charity, with specific money education projects. Help is given to a range of organisations, from small grassroots groups to more mainstream charities. The MSE Charity has two themed grant-giving rounds a year and four themes that rotate through a two-year cycle. Its themes include building and developing resilience, life‑changing transitions and living with long-term challenges. Full details of the recipients can be found at www.msecharity.com.
.Community
In addition, .Community, set up to support small-scale grassroots local charities, has donated to 34 causes this year, totalling £22,585 in donations.
The Group has made diverse donations to community groups, pre-schools, playgroups and charities such as those supporting autism, stillbirth and neonatal death (Sands). Our contributions extend to healthcare initiatives like the Royal Liverpool’s Knifesavers programme and neurodiversity resources for schools. Through the community fund, we empower Group members to make a positive impact on surrounding communities, continuously seeking new ways to provide support.