Supporting charities
We support our colleagues’ fundraising for local and national causes close to their hearts.
Arqiva provides matched funding enabling colleagues to fund raise for their chosen charities, from Diabetes UK, Walking with the Wounded and the NSPCC to local community projects, children’s clubs, and sports teams.
Our Wellbeing team co-ordinate the Arqiva Challenge each year by giving our colleagues the opportunity to engage in physical activities such as the Cumbrian Challenge, the Ultra Challenge and Kilt walk. This helps raise much needed funds for charities such as Walking with the Wounded and Children with Cancer UK.
In our FY24 financial year Arqiva and our colleagues raised over £75,000.
Arqiva also supports the ‘Give as You Earn’ scheme in partnership with the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) allowing colleagues to get tax relief on their donations.
Supporting our people
We aim to create a workplace where people feel engaged, energised and respected, where they can do their best, and look after their personal wellbeing, both in and out of work. We run an annual event focusing on both organisational and personal resilience, and we have networks of Wellbeing Ambassadors and Mental Health First Aiders.
Health and safety is vital, whether in the office or repairing an antenna on a 1,000ft mast. We have been a driving force in developing the Mast and Tower Safety Group, we run our own accredited IOSH Working Safely training scheme for our engineers, and we collaborate with the union BECTU on our annual employee safety conference.
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Supporting diversity and inclusion
Our diversity and inclusion programme ensures that we continually focus on what’s needed for everyone to feel included and able to perform. We have moved beyond building awareness around unconscious bias, and are now supporting colleagues to understand the difference between intent and impact.
Our Diversity Ambassadors have been instrumental in encouraging and engaging other workplace communities. We now have an active Women at Arqiva network, a Working Families group, and a Neurodiversity network, so we can listen, support and take opportunities to make lasting, tangible changes so our working practices are even more inclusive.
Sustainability
Our overarching strategic purpose is social, enabling people to stay connected to the information and entertainment that matters to them. We recognise the needs of the most vulnerable in society keeping them connected via our Media and Broadcast services and our Smart Utilities.
We are working to incorporate sustainability into our business practices by leveraging the expertise of our colleagues to discover innovative solutions for growth and development of our products.
Read our FY24 Sustainability Annual ReportSupporting the environment
Many of our sites are located in rural locations with protected habitats and wildlife, so we seek to protect, work around or have the least impact possible on natural habitats, rare flowers and wild animals. We are striving to reduce the energy we use across the business, reduce the amount of single-use plastics we get through, and recycle more. We also dispose of redundant hardware and equipment in the most environmentally friendly ways possible.
