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Employee involvement

GSK employees are encouraged to contribute to their local communities as volunteers.

Hundreds of employees give their time to good causes through our Days of Caring in the US, and to support school science education through our UK Science and Engineering Ambassador Scheme and US Partnership for Educational Discovery.

In the UK and US we also make cash donations to charities where employees have done voluntary work.

During 2005, our GSK Investment in Volunteer Excellence (GIVE) programme gave $300,000 (£165,000) to over 350 charitable organisations in the US where employees or their partners volunteered at least 50 hours during the year. In the UK, our Making a Difference programme provided grants of almost £300,000 ($546,000) to over 440 charities where our employees had volunteered.

In many countries we also encourage employees to donate money to charity by matching the money they give or by providing tax-efficient ways for them to make a donation, in accordance with local taxation guidelines.

In 2005 in the USA, GSK matched donations by employees and retirees at a value of over $5 million (£2.7 million). In addition, GSK gave $1.35 million (£742,000) to match donations by GSK employees through the annual GSK and United Way campaign.

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