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Turner & Townsend, the global programme management company, today announces that its Making the Difference Fund has awarded more than £2 million to charitable partners around the world, since the fund was launched in 2023. This significant milestone comes as the fund announces its latest partnership with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)1 to support the global Children’s Emergency Fund response programme.
The Making the Difference Fund has built long-term partnerships with organisations tackling some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. Long-term partners include:
- Build Change, which helps vulnerable communities strengthen homes and infrastructure against earthquakes and extreme weather through resilient retrofitting, policy change and local capacity building
- Railway Children, which supports vulnerable children and young people at risk on the streets and within transport networks across Europe, Asia and Africa
- Barefoot College International (BCI), which empowers women in rural communities through education, developing new livelihoods and renewable energy installation and maintenance training programmes
Since partnering with Turner & Townsend, BCI has helped train 80 women as solar engineers and enabled over 11,000 women to participate in the ENRICH+ programme, which teaches the installation and maintenance of solar power technology, as well as digital literacy and micro-enterprise management skills.
“We established our Making the Difference Fund to create meaningful and sustained impact for communities across the world. Surpassing £2 million in support for our partners shows the scale of what businesses can achieve through strong partnerships and a shared commitment to positive change.
“We are proud to play a part in enabling the critical work of these organisations, and we look forward to continuing our work together, to expand opportunities and help communities thrive, despite facing some of the world’s greatest challenges.”
Patricia Moore
Chair of the Making the Difference Fund Board and Managing Director, EMEA
Turner & Townsend
Funded entirely by Turner & Townsend, the Making the Difference Fund supports initiatives that deliver long-term social impact through three core objectives:
- Supporting social mobility by creating opportunities for underrepresented groups in the construction, development and energy sectors
- Assisting disaster relief and recovery by helping communities respond to and begin recovering from crises while building long-term resilience
- Driving industry innovation through support for research, technology and new approaches that address future industry challenges
1 UNICEF does not endorse any company, brand, product or service
About Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend is a global programme management company with over 23,000 people in 64 countries.
Working with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, Turner & Townsend specialises in major programmes, project, cost and commercial management, project controls and performance, net zero and digital solutions, in markets around the world.
Turner & Townsend is majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm and a premier provider of critical infrastructure services, with its partners holding a significant non-controlling interest.
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