Our Global Charity Partners
Our global charity partners were selected following a staff vote. We'll be partnering with each charity for the next 3 years and supporting each with a corporate donation and engagement activities.
Cool Earth works with rainforest communities to halt deforestation and its impact on climate change.
ShelterBox provides emergency shelter and other essential items to families who have lost their homes to disasters.
Supporting Cool Earth and ShelterBox enables us to focus on both the immediate impact on individuals and communities, while supporting initiatives to combat climate change in the long term. Learn more about our global charity partnerships here.
ShelterBox response in Honduras to people who lost their homes to Hurricanes Eta and Iota that hit in 2020.
Aerial of an Asháninka village on the edge of the Rio Ene, Peru, where Cool Earth partner with four villages to ensure their way of life can continue in spite of challenging external pressures.
ShelterBox response in Honduras to people who lost their homes to Hurricanes Eta and Iota that hit in 2020.
Aerial of an Asháninka village on the edge of the Rio Ene, Peru, where Cool Earth partner with four villages to ensure their way of life can continue in spite of challenging external pressures.
Officially amazing
709 Global employees at Liberty Specialty Markets have set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the largest online video chain passing a water bottle in support of WaterAid. The new world record raised a total of £1,500 for WaterAid. The previous world record was 464 people.
Watch this video to learn more
Our CSR Strategy
Our strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) framework is divided into three themes, helping us to focus our activities on three community-based issues where we believe we can make a difference. Our CSR initiatives are focussed on projects where we live and work, and in the developing world that:
- Improve education and employment outcomes
- Provide food and shelter for those in need
- Advance health and wellbeing
These projects need to deliver tangible long term benefits.
Download the 2019 - 2020 highlights of our work in the community to find out more information.
Our strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) framework is divided into three themes.
A message from Matthew Moore, President & Managing Director
"At Liberty Specialty Markets, we create products and insurance solutions that protect the social and economic development of individuals, communities and businesses across the globe. Our mutual status brings advantages that help to reduce risk in an unpredictable world. We make time for what matters to our partners, aiming to build supportive relationships over time. In short, our mutuality unlocks opportunities to thrive together.
Our CSR mission is focused on helping our communities to prosper, where we live and work, and for those in need around the world. Our charities are carefully selected and our approach includes helping a combination of small, local projects with more well known, larger charities, all of which we believe are making a positive difference. The CSR programme provides a variety of opportunities for our people to volunteer their time and efforts for a good cause.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that now more than ever, we must work together to help those most vulnerable in our communities, through volunteering, corporate donations and fundraising. During this crucial time, we have adapted our programme by holding virtual events, challenges and COVID-19 charitable campaigns. This aligns to our values of putting people first and making things better for our local and wider communities in need.
I hope you enjoy reading and learning more about our work towards making a local, societal and ultimately, a global difference, as one Global LSM."
CSR
Contact our CSR team
The Liberty Specialty Markets’ CSR programme is wide-ranging, varied and reaches many people and communities, and our employees share my belief that helping our communities to prosper is the right thing to do.
Matthew Moore
Global Risk Solutions - President of Underwriting
Global community
Global initiatives
WaterAid
WaterAid, our global charity partner (from June 2015 – June 2022), is working to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere.
COVID-19
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we donated to a range of charities which were providing direct assistance to those most vulnerable.
Unsung Heroes Award
Our volunteer recognition award recognises those who have made a difference to a community cause.
Supporting the arts
At Liberty Specialty Markets, we believe in supporting a vibrant and sustainable future for the art sector.
Supporting the lonely and isolated over Christmas
We committed to making things better for the lonely and isolated over Christmas by donating £50,000 to the charities across our different regions
We have a global partnership with WaterAid, an international organisation whose mission is to transform the lives of the poorest and most marginalised people by improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene.
We launched our partnership with WaterAid in 2015 and have since supported two ambitious and potentially life-changing projects. The first, in Madagascar, reached remote rural communities with water, toilets and hygiene education. The current project, located in Rwanda, aims to give almost 80,000 school children access to clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene by 2021.
Our employees support WaterAid by getting involved in a range of fundraising events including marathon runs and adventure treks.
In addition to our global charity partner, each office supports their own local charity cause(s).
‘Serve with Liberty’ is our annual Liberty Mutual initiative, encouraging all staff globally to take part in volunteering projects and get involved in a range of practical tasks and skills-based opportunities.
In 2019, 670 Liberty Specialty Markets employees from our offices around the world dedicated their time to contribute to 64 projects.
In 2020 and 2021, we were unable to hold Serve with Liberty due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we had a specific charitable response to COVID-19 as outlined here.
In partnership with The Slade School of Fine Art and The Art Academy, we are supporting 7 artists in this inaugural year. Graduates are paid to display their work in our London office at 20 Fenchurch Street for one year, and works are available to purchase via an online auction.
Crucially, the project also incorporates a development programme for the artists, including training sessions, mentoring and workshops. This is in line with our approach to equip the artists with commercial skills with which to build a sustainable career.
Find out more about our Art programmes here.
