Charity and community investment
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Flying Start
Flying Start is our flagship charity programme, a global partnership with Comic Relief since 2010. Through the partnership we focus on helping disadvantaged young people in the UK and around the world to have the best possible start in life. For example, we’re currently investing over £2 million of the funds raised into projects across the UK, as well as in India, Ghana and South Africa, which focus on early childhood development.
During flights we encourage our customers to donate any spare currency they have because small change makes a big difference. You can also add a donation when booking your flights.
Thanks to your generosity so far – and the incredible fundraising efforts of British Airways employees – we’ve raised over £24 million in support of Flying Start, which has helped Comic Relief to reach over 800,000 people. This includes over 100,000 children across Sub Saharan Africa that have been immunised against deadly diseases and over 2,700 vulnerable young people at risk of social exclusion in the UK, with support to improve confidence and life skills.
Helping communities respond in times of crisis
In times of crisis, both in the UK and internationally, we work with partners, including the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the British Red Cross, to ensure that vital relief gets to where it’s needed as quickly as possible.
Since 2013 we’ve raised over £1.7 million to help people affected by humanitarian crisis. Funds raised in response to Cyclone Idai in 2019, which devastated already vulnerable communities across Southern Africa, helped to deliver food assistance to 48,300 people, emergency shelter to 15,700 families and items including seeds, tools and livestock to over 220,000 people, helping them to start rebuilding their livelihoods.
In the UK, we work in partnership with the British Red Cross to support communities affected by emergencies, from extreme weather to house fires. Our support helps to recruit, train and support British Red Cross staff and volunteers to help those in crisis with basic necessities, like first aid, food and shelter, as well as providing emotional support.
Supporting our colleagues
Alongside these partnerships, we help our colleagues to support other causes close to their hearts through our accredited payroll giving and match funding schemes, through which we provide support to more than 600 different charities every year.
If you’d like to get in touch please email us on community.branch@ba.com
Terms and Conditions
This is an entirely voluntary scheme where customers can make donations to community projects and charities, or UK based projects or charities that are working to prevent human trafficking or modern slavery, or support survivors.
These terms and conditions relate to donations made to the BA Better World Community Fund during the booking process. This is an entirely voluntary scheme where customers can make Donations to help support BA Better World Community Fund Charity partners. These donations are collected by British Airways and passed in their entirety by British Airways to independent not for profit Charities, which will identify such projects.
1.Definitions
"BA Better World Community Fund" (also known as “the Community Fund”) is the name for the scheme that will collect and pass on donations made by our customers to the Charities.
"Donation" means your voluntary contribution for participation in the BA Better World Community Fund.
“Charity” means any not-for-profit third-party charity or charities that may be appointed by British Airways now or in the future to select and administer any projects supported by Donations from British Airways customers.
"Grant" means an award of monies on a non-repayment basis to the agreed projects or activity.
2. Your Donation
British Airways will choose the Charities from time to time and you can see a list of sample Charities here. British Airways reserves the sole discretion to select the Charities that will receive any Donation monies from the BA Better World Community Fund.
3. BA Better World British Airways Community Fund
- The whole of your Donation will be passed onto the Charities.
- The Charity will use the Donations to support its own projects.
- Please note that BA will decide which Charities your Donation will support.
- Donations are a one-off payment and are non-refundable.
British Airways does not retain any part of your Donation, nor does it derive any revenue or profit whatsoever from the operation of the BA Better World Community Fund.
As this is a global scheme, Gift Aid cannot be added to donations at the point of sale.
If the Charity ceases to operate, the Charity and British Airways shall agree how the monies may be dispersed or refunded, which in any case will be to organisations operating in the area retained by the Charity as a Grant for general charitable purposes. British Airways and the Charity reserves the sole discretion to select the organisations or projects that will receive any final BA Better World Community Fund monies. BA reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time. Any updates will be posted here so please check back regularly. The governing law is that of England and Wales.