Giving Back

BE Offices have worked with many charities for a number of years and are proud to have donated over £1.5m.

Our chosen charity is Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity but we are delighted to work with a range of good causes. Supporting our local communities, developing our people and helping good causes move forward is and always has been one of our core beliefs. Some the of good work we do every year is listed below.

TAKING OUR PART IN THE COMMUNITY

We have taken part in the Great City Race for many years, it is one of the various events we do to raise money for charity. There’s too many to list but another team favourite is the The Paddington Dragonboat Race, raising funds for COSMIC (Children of St. Mary’s Intensive Care).

Dragonboat Race in Paddington Basin

CHARITY DAYS FOR EVERY EMPLOYEE

In 2011 we launched “Charity Days” for our team members. Each employee is given three days paid leave to work for a charity of their choice. From volunteering at a food bank to lending careers advice to students, we are donating hundreds hours of time this year.

Employee Charity Days

THE GREEN GROUP

Being Green isn’t just something we add to our agenda, it’s part of the fabric of working for BE and in our centres. We are the majority of the way through a multi-million-pound project to install energy efficient lighting throughout our entire portfolio and have just switched the electricity supplier to 15 of our centres, to one who uses only renewable sourced energy.

We’re unique in the fact that we have our own in-house project team, The Green Group, who are challenged with making every one of our processes greener, more energy efficient and better for the environment. They have driven initiatives such as the binless office, cycle to work scheme, carbon neutral hosting servers, and bike rack installations at centres. Follow us @teamgreennow

The Green Group

CHARITY VOLUNTEER TRIP

Ever year we send two very lucky members of our team on a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience to help in less fortunate areas of the world. Our volunteers have helped on projects in Cambodia, Nepal, Thailand, Belize and most recently turtle conservation in Costa Rica. Keep an eye out on our blog for the daily updates when the trips are running.

Charity Days

SPONSORSHIPS

We sponsor many local events and sports team and firmly believe in making a difference to our communities wherever we can.

Team Sponsorship

Jun 09th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 5 – batten down the hatches!

*Tip: When it rains, it pours on the island and you had better make sure you leave nothing on the washing line when it does as it may well not be there in the morning! Thursday started as the previous two days had done, a pre-dive snack at 6.30 followed ...

Jun 08th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 4 – Midweek madness – crash bang whallop!

*Tip: when diving or snorkelling, don’t touch anything and keep your limbs away from the coral. Many species of coral are venomous in order to protect them from predators. Pretty to look at, not to touch. Bad things come in threes so they ...

Jun 07th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 3 – Tuesday…food bell and lionfish!

Tip: the bell is the most important sound on the island, it means gather in the living area. Everyone loves hearing it at 8am, 1pm and 7pm, because that means food is ready! The day starts early on Tom Owens Caye, there is coffee, fruit and snacks ...

Jun 07th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 2 – There’s no hot water tap in island life!

Tip: try to be the first to shower in the evening, not because the water will run out if you’re the last, but because the top of the rainwater tank will have been heated by the sun and that’s the water that leaves the tank first. After ...

Jun 05th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 1 – planes, trains and automobiles… oh and golf buggies too!

2 tube rides, 3 flights, 4 shuttle bus journeys, a golf buggy ride and a boat trip later and we’ve finally made it to the island! No, not Love Island, Tom Owens Caye! After three days of sitting on multiple modes of transport, Victoria and ...

Apr 24th 2018

BE Offices and &Meetings staff complete London Marathon and raise over £10.5k for charity

Rays of Sunshine, Leukaemia Care UK and Brain Research Trust benefit from BE Offices and &Meetings runners’ fundraising efforts We are very proud of our three members of staff who completed the Virgin London Marathon on Sunday ...

Oct 09th 2017

BE’s 2017 Macmillan Coffee Morning fundraising smashes previous totals

Fundraising tastes better at BE Offices with £3,000 raised for cancer charity For the sixth consecutive year, clients and staff at BE Offices’ portfolio of business centres across the City, Central and Greater London and across the South ...

Mar 23rd 2017

Students and the environment benefit from BE Charity Days

Two BE Offices employees were in action on volunteering missions this week, one at a secondary school careers fair, the other at the Greenwich Meantime Plant Nursery. Taking advantage of BE Offices’ “Charity Days” scheme, our PR ...

Mar 20th 2017

Frances uses BE Charity Day to volunteer as part of Fairtrade Fortnight

Since 2011 BE Offices has offered a “Charity Days” scheme for all its personnel with every staff member given three days per year paid leave to work for a charity of their choice. Fairtrade Fortnight has recently finished, a celebration ...

Dec 09th 2016

BE Offices’ MD happy to #BeMoreSanta in aid of Rays of Sunshine

Serviced offices company boss David Saul dons Christmas jumper and Santa hat and serves teas and coffees for the day to staff in support of children’s charity Rays of Sunshine It takes a certain kind of leader to swap roles with ...