Background
The Ten-Percent Foundation was set up in 2002 as a charitable trust specifically to distribute the donation Ten-Percent.co.uk Limited gives each year to charities. This includes the Ten-Percent Group of recruitment websites, which includes our Legal Recruitment services (ten-percent.co.uk, interimlawyers.co.uk and jonathanfagan.co.uk) and also our related company TP Transcription Limited (tptranscription.co.uk and universitytranscriptions.co.uk). We donate 10% of net profits each year to the Foundation, which is a registered Charitable Trust in the UK (reg no 1095812). This is following the tithe principle from mediaeval times, although there are no links between the company or the charity to any religion.
The Directors of Ten-Percent.co.uk Limited are firm believers in the notion of corporate responsibility and we strongly encourage businesses around the world to take a similar step in promoting philanthropy. We maintain a page detailing other companies who donate a percentage of profit or turnover to charitable causes – details of these can be found here.
Our Commitment
Our commitment to annual charitable donations is set down in our Articles of Association. So far we have donated over £175,000 (to 2022). It is our business aim to ensure a healthy growth for the company and at the same time spend 10% of our income supporting charitable causes both in the UK and overseas. We enjoy the process of giving away our profits each year, once we have got over watching the money disappear from our bank account, and it is always nice to get positive responses from the charities we donate to and it makes us feel a bit better.
We try to find charities with specific projects we can follow up on, and prefer smaller sized charities to the large ones, especially those with CEO’s earning shed loads of cash (you know who you are – click here for our article on this). Our clients will also nominate charities, particularly those they are personally involved with or who have been of assistance, and we like to support small charities related to the legal profession.
Donations to Date
A list of the donations we have made since 2000, when we started trading, can be found on our Projects page. NB: the years below refer to our financial years – our companies tend to donate the amounts due 12 months later.
In 2000-2001 we (the Ten Percent group of websites) donated £500.
In 2001-2002 we donated £1,983.80 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2002-2003 we donated £3,943.40 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2003-2004 we donated £4,076.40 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2004-2005 we donated £5,652.00 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2005-2006 we donated £6,602.90 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2006-2007 we donated £8,757.20 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2007-2008 we donated £7,350.00 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2008-2009 we donated £1,128 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2009-2010 we donated £3,952 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2010-2011 we donated £3,865.30 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2011-2012 we donated £902.10 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2012-2013 we donated £7,450.20 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2013-2014 we donated £10,656.00 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2014-2015 we donated £13,549.70 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2015-2016 we donated £11,722.74 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2016-2017 we donated £9,887.14 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2017-2018 we donated £8,214.49 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2018-2019 we donated £8,672.64 to the Ten Percent Foundation.
In 2019-2020 we donated £19,413.10 to the Ten Percent Foundation.
In 2020-2021 we donated £19,317.30 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
In 2021-2022 we donated £25,469.80 to the Ten-Percent Foundation.
Total amount donated to date:
£182,769.21
