Our Christmas Wrap Up for 2025

This isn’t a Christmas campaign. It’s our commitment.

As the festive season approaches, we wanted to take a moment to share a snapshot of how Together360, our social value framework, has been supporting communities at a time when demand for frontline services is often at its highest.

While Christmas provides a natural moment to pause and reflect, our approach to social value is shaped by long-term relationships with community partners who work year-round to support people facing hardship, ill health and inequality.

Working alongside trusted community partners

This Christmas, our support has been delivered in close collaboration with a wide network of local and regional organisations. These partners are the ones meeting real needs every day, and our role is to listen, respond and support them in practical ways.

Across our regions, we have worked with foodbanks including Plymouth Foodbank, Truro Foodbank, Exeter Foodbank, Salvation Army Torbay, Weston-super-Mare Foodbank, Pencoed Foodbank, Cardiff Foodbank, Aber Valley FC Foodbank and Merthyr Cynon Foodbank, helping to provide essential food support during the winter months. In total, we donated over 1.03 tonnes of food, equivalent to approximately 2,450 meals, based on WRAP guidance.

Alongside this, we donated our annual food parcels to Age UK Exeter and Age UK Bristol, in addition to funding 30 hot meals for Age UK Plymouth which our team was able to deliver by hand, offering not just nourishment but a moment of connection during the festive period. As Silver Armed Forces Covenant award holders, 30 of our local servicepeople and veterans in Clevedon were treated to a Christmas dinner which brought festive cheer and company.

Supporting health and wellbeing

Healthcare environments are a core focus of our social value work, particularly in the places where we regularly design, advise and collaborate.

Through partnerships with organisations such as Plymouth Hospitals Charity, Royal Devon Hospitals Charity, Torbay & South Devon NHS Charity, Royal Cornwall Hospitals Charity, Birmingham Women’s & Children’s Hospitall, Cardiff & Vale Health Charity and The Grand Appeal, we’ve brought a smile to the faces of 124 children by donating our traditional book advent calendars to children’s wards. These advent calendars are appropriate for any child who can’t enjoy chocolate while taking certain medications.

We’ve also worked closely with hospices including Acorns Children’s Hospice, Children’s Hospice South West, City Hospice, Noah’s Ark Charity, St Luke’s Hospice and Rowcroft Hospice, donating 50 wellbeing hampers, 40 electric blankets and throws, and funding two days of essential nursing care to help provide comfort, dignity and support at a time when it is most needed.

Reaching people through local, holistic support

Beyond food and healthcare, our partners also include organisations addressing a wide range of social needs, from homelessness and family support to safety, dignity and early years care. This Christmas, this included two staff-led toy appeals for Baby Bank Exeter and BCHA and sustainable thermal flasks, hot water bottle wraps, and socks for Plymouth Soup Run ; all alongside our regular donations that help tackle hygiene poverty and support safety and security at home.

This breadth of partnership reflects our belief that social value should be holistic. We aim to support people not just in one moment, but across different stages of life and different types of need.

A year-round approach

While this activity takes place during the festive period, it represents just one chapter within Together360, our everyday framework for social value. By working in partnership with trusted organisations and focusing on long-term relationships, we aim to ensure our support remains meaningful, accountable and shaped by those closest to the need.

We are incredibly grateful to all of our community partners for the work they do, and for allowing us to play a small part in supporting their impact.