Community investment committee

The community investment committee’s role is to approve and monitor the group’s CR policy and action plan and report progress to the board. Please see document below for governance.

Meeting at least six monthly, it consists of executive and non executive PLC directors and ELT members, CR representatives and employee representatives. The community investment committees' principal duties are to:

monitor and review compliance with the board’s charitable donations and corporate responsibility policy
make recommendations to the board on the strategic direction of community donations and corporate responsibility strategy
review from time to time, all PLC board approved specific giving where the aggregate financial contribution from UU exceeds £110k over the period of the proposed funding and all community giving expenditure annually
undertake any review or take any other action that it considers appropriate in the discharge of its duties.

Current members include:

Tim Weller (chair and CFO), Dr Catherine Bell (NED) Tom Keevil (General Counsel & Company Secretary), Gaynor Kenyon (Director of Communications), Helen Norris (Head of Corporate Responsibility), Tom Lissett (employee representative), Ben Bowler (graduate representative)