Barclays ESG Investor Presentation 2021
Environment
Social
Financing
Governance
Supporting our communities
Building digital skills
>23,000 participants
supported with their digital journey across our digital upskill
events in 2021
Code Playground - provided >400,000 children a start in coding
Digital Wings - free online learning platform for digital education with
>128,000 registered users and >50 hours of learning content
Digital Eagles-passionate colleagues, helping everyone get the most
out of digital
LifeSkills
Skills and employability
15.3m² people
reached through Barclays' LifeSkills since 2013
9.8 million people upskilled since 2018 vs. a target of 10m by
2022
193,400 people placed into work since 2019 vs. a target of
250,000 by 2022²
Rebuilding Thriving Local Economies - established in 2018 to support
UK communities, help businesses grow and provide skills and training
•
Tea and Teach- online videos to help people boost digital confidence
COVID-19 Community Aid Package
£100 million
committed to supporting COVID-19 relief
• Barclays' £100m COVID-19 Community Aid Package - delivering relief
to vulnerable communities through the pandemic
Supported >370 charity partners to date around the world
Since April 2020, Barclays matched £8.1m raised and donated by
colleagues for COVID relief efforts - which has meant a total of
more than £16.2m for 2,000 charities around the world
•
Supporting women's and girls' football
Doubling our existing investment to >£30m
in women's and girls' football from 2022-2025
Committed to offering girls equal access to football in schools by 2024
Sponsor of the FA Girls Football Schools Partnership since 2019
6,500 new schools joined the scheme, taking the total to >9,500
with 20,000 schools to join by 2024
New Football Community Fund will see 1,850 grants delivered annually
to underrepresented grassroots groups
A 2021 data reproduced from the Barclays PLC Annual Report subject to independent Limited Assurance under ISAE(UK)3000 and ISAE3410. Refer to the ESG Resource Hub for details: home.barclays/sustainability/esg-resource-hub/|1 Includes a subset of the
15.3m people reached through LifeSkills since 2013 | 2 In 2019, Barclays published new Citizenship commitments for the end of 2022. Against these commitments, the number of people upskilled through LifeSkills runs over a five-year period, from 2018-2022, and
the number of people placed into work runs over a four-year period, from 2019-2022 |
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