Community

Cape provides essential services to clients who supply some of the vital building blocks of our society, such as energy and raw materials. Our operational activities therefore have a significant positive impact on people everywhere, and we believe we have a responsibility to extend this impact further in the communities where we operate.

Wherever possible, we use local labour, training people to our internationally recognised standards, and we are very proud that a significant proportion of our staff and management roles are filled with local people. We measure our success not just on profit and turnover, but also on how well we conduct ourselves within the community. Wherever appropriate, we support local events or causes where we can provide benefits to the community, as the following examples demonstrate:

• Supplying scaffolding free of charge for the Burswood Annual Film Festival's outdoor cinema in Perth, Western Australia. Movies by Burswood has raised over $2 million for various children's charities. We also donate scaffolding labour and resources to the children's charity Telethon, helping them build houses that are auctioned for charity, and take part in the annual Cool Night Classic run to help raise funds for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.


• Competing in the Great South Run in the UK to raise funds for the Alzheimer's Society. Our runners Tracy Foster and Emma Harris from UK Onshore in Fareham will run again next year for the British Heart Foundation.


• The Cape fundraising committee has donated more than £200,000 over the years to help Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Intensive Therapy Unit in the UK to buy equipment not necessarily available from normal healthcare funding.


• A three-day 240-mile charity bike ride from Cornwall to Bristol in the UK undertaken by Cape DBI South's Stephen Vickers who with two rugby colleagues raised £3,000 for Children's Hospice South West.


• Staff in CIS, along with government representatives, visit the houses of older people, boarding schools and disadvantaged families.


• Sponsoring a competition for the children of Indian expats in Saudi Arabia for 10,000 Riyals. The World Quiz Brain Hunt 2010 was run by AMPS, a non-profit voluntary organisation that supports professional development for Indian expats in Saudi Arabia. The event was designed to help bring out the hidden talents of the children who took part.


• In the Southern Gulf we recently contributed a laptop to an eight-year-old cancer patient in Oman, to make his wish come true.


• In Qatar, we regularly donate to the Indian Community Benevolent Fund for the Indian workers in Qatar, and to employees who have retired due to illness.


• Asia Offshore makes donations to the Children's Joy Foundation every Christmas, and also helps children who suffer from cleft lip and palate go through surgery.


• We also sponsor the annual Manila, Phillippines rugby sevens tournament, which improves our standing in the local business community.