The directors of Knight Knox International believe in a reciprocal world; i.e. what goes around comes around and that business feels better when a part of the money made goes toward good causes and achieves something worthwhile as well as making a living.

With this in mind the company donates over 10% of its profits each year to a variety of charities that we feel strongly about, with particular focus on supporting children.

At present our monthly support includes:

Individual child sponsorship through Action Aid

For every member of staff at Knight Knox we sponsor a child in a developing country. This is a personal connection for the team and works well with the well-organised charity Action Aid. At the moment we sponsor children in more than 12 different countries and the main focus for the funds are spent on education, subsistence and effectively giving the children a better future, as well as having a positive connection with the western world.

To find out more about Action Aid and child sponsorship go to http://www.actionaid.org.uk/

Children in Need

Each year we support children in need by donation or a fund raising event.

Children in need is a UK registered charity promoted by the BBC since the 1980’s and has raised many hundreds of millions of pounds for good causes relating to children across the UK.

To find out more about this incredible charity - go to www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey

Fair Trade

We buy our coffee, office supplies and some stationary from suppliers selling ‘Fair Trade’ products. Simple step to take, good quality and when you read about how this system works it’s really worthwhile.

You can find out about Fair Trade by going to www.fairtrade.org.uk. You will see goods marked fair-trade in most supermarkets and food outlets.

Philippines School fund

A remarkable project set up by an English lady in the late 90’s with the aim of making lives better, providing education and basic food needs for Children and families living on the rubbish dump area of Manila in the Philippines.

In this project we sponsor the ‘food for attendance’ project; a great idea that was put in place to ensure that the children were encouraged by parents to attend school rather than work from necessity. At the end of each week the pupils are given a provision package to take home (rice etc, which is particular relevant now as food costs have increased), the better their attendance that week the more food they receive.

This has resulted in almost all children consistently attended school each week, whereas before attendance was sporadic as financial demands took there toll.

To find out more about this great project visit:
www.p-c-f.org

NSPCC

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was established in 1889 and its aim is to protect children from cruelty, support vulnerable families, campaign for changes to the law and raise awareness about abuse. We give a donation monthly to this charity.

For more information go to www.nsppc.org.uk

The environment

Another main focus and concern is the environment, and we are guilty of a pretty large carbon footprint ourselves (with a lot of overseas travel etc). This is harder to ‘support’ but we endeavour to do something by donating to relevant organisations, recycling where possible and buying and protecting our own woodlands.

If you have any thoughts, feedback or suggestions please make contact with us by email at giving@knightknox.com