We work to create lasting impact by focusing on skilling for technology careers, innovating for society, helping communities in crisis and refugees, and offering meaningful volunteering, participation and innovation opportunities for our people.
Through our global Skills to Succeed initiative, we collaborate with our partners to prepare people for employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. In FY22, we equipped more than 1.6 million people worldwide with the skills to make substantive improvements to their lives, including 79,065 people in the UK.
To support low-paid workers, we co-founded the FutureDotNow coalition to provide vulnerable people with essential digital skills. We’ve also developed free online learning, including the green skills programme Stay Nimble. Meanwhile our Accenture Digital Skills programme has equipped more than 208,000 people with digital skills across a range of topics including AI, digital marketing, analytics and mobile.
In 2021, we worked with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) to bring together UK business, and the UK and India governments, to co-create a multi-million-dollar India COVID-19 Recovery Fund, impacting millions of people across the region. Since then we’ve expanded our partnership with the CBI, working with them to organise essential humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Along with British food manufacturers, supply chain partners, and the Ukrainian Embassy in London, we provided 540,000 food boxes to those in need. We also partnered with The Adecco Group to support Ukrainian refugees looking to start new careers.
Accenture offers a wide range of voluntary support, including pro bono consulting projects, volunteering with strategic partners and cash funding. Our UK people provided 35,732 hours of pro bono consulting in FY22 to charities, social enterprises and other welfare-to-work organisations. Elsewhere, our volunteer programme Time to Volunteer saw more than 16% of our UK headcount provide 33,564 hours of support.
