In the United Kingdom, Chevron seeks to build partnerships that support the economic and social fabric of the communities where we work. We sponsor projects that support education, the environment, the arts and social causes.
Our sponsorships fund the Texaco Young Musician of Wales competition, a biennial competition open to children up to 18 years of age. We also sponsor programs with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The company's long-standing relationship with the academy was recognized in the Arts and Business Scotland Awards in 2006, winning the Best Sustained Arts Partnership Award. Also in Scotland, we run Focus Environment, an environmental photography competition for secondary schools, in partnership with two nongovernmental environmental organizations. We also help run programs that involve students in science and technology projects.
Other projects support education programs in east London and supply science activity packs for Welsh schoolchildren. Chevron has supported Youth Action Northern Ireland for the last 18 years, helping children through a series of developmental programs. This effort was recognized in 2007 with an award from the Northern Ireland Allianz Arts and Business Awards.
Chevron's donations to Action for Children, a U.K. children's charity, have topped £1 million, with funds raised thanks to the support of our employees and our customers. The charity works with 140,000 of the United Kingdom's most vulnerable children, young people and their families.
Our Pembroke refinery provides help and support to educational, environmental, arts, sports and community projects in Pembrokeshire. Chevron's Sport and Youth Development for Pembrokeshire program was developed with Pembrokeshire County Council's Sports Development department and covers a range of projects. These include the Pembrokeshire Academy of Coaching Education, which brings 50 qualified coaches to clubs and schools and grant aid for junior sports development in the county.
The Chevron Tennis Academy and Girls' Hockey League also are linked to the sports development initiative. In addition, the Chevron Girls' Football League is now the largest of its type in the United Kingdom. Pembrokeshire College, which also benefits from the initiative, has been chosen to be one of three National Centres of Excellence.
The refinery received a record number of awards for work in the community in 2007.
Along with its partners, the refinery's Pwllcrochan Environmental Education Centre earned a Partnership Innovation Award from the Prince's Trust Cymru Celebrate Success Awards. The Pwllcrochan Centre is visited by some 500 schoolchildren each year.
The Pembroke refinery was nominated as a finalist in the Prince Michael Road Safety Awards. The nomination recognized the refinery's road-safety awareness program, which it ran in partnership with the Pembrokeshire County Council.
The Wales Centre for Health also honored the refinery in 2007, with the Silver Corporate Health Standard Award for the facility's "exemplary safety record."
Other awards received in 2007 include the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Supporters Award and the British Trust for Ornithology's Business Bird Challenge Community Award.
In 2008, our Pembroke refinery was recognized for its community engagement efforts, receiving certificates of outstanding contribution to the community from the Pembrokeshire County Council and the Tenby Town Council.
Updated March 2009