Community investment

Our investment in communities world-wide

Our regions submit details of their financial contributions to our central finance and community team annually. This includes details of our employee time and resources, gifts-in-kind, and the cash donations they make. The results are reported to the Cadbury Schweppes Foundation and Board CSR Committee. In 2005, we invested £9.8 million to community projects - just over 1% of our global pre-tax profit.

We have asked Deloitte's Sustainability Team to provide assurance on these global figures, and our group-wide process for collecting this data. This helps us to understand how well we are managing our global reporting processes.

Community Investment by theme

	2005 £000	2004 £000	2003 £000	2002 £000
Education and Enterprise	2,738	3,353	3,328	3,595
Health and Welfare	5,359	3,653	1,849	971
Environment	723	772	349	282
Other (outside the three themes)	982	803	505	657
Total	9,802	8,581	6,031	5,505

We encourage our people to participate in business-led community initiatives, in addition to personal initiatives they may undertake outside the business. This has produced a significant rise in employee time donated between 2002 and 2005.

Community Investment by type

	2005 £000	2004 £000	2003 £000	2002 £000
Donations in cash*	5,657	5,046	4,443	3,996
Donations in kind (equivalent £)	3,113	2,706	866	1,188
Donations in staff time (equivalent £)	1,032	829	722	321
Total	9,802	8,581	6,031	5,505

*This includes a relatively small amount of management costs.

Community Investment by region*

	2005 £000	2004 £000	2003 £000	2002 £000
Group Functions	1,404	1,190	1,191	1,650
Americas Beverages	2,367	2,998	1,551	1,789
Europe, Middle East and Africa	2,554	2,786	2,158	1,527
Americas Confectionery	2,661	464	274	123
Asia Pacific	734	895	626	145
Europe Beverages	82	248	231	271
Total	9,802	8,581	6,031	5,505

*The regions are not economically or geographically equal in size and so this is not a relative comparison.