Our Trust aims to make a difference to the local communities that our Moto sites are part of. Moto operates 48 service areas around the UK, employing around 5,000 staff.

Since 2000, Moto People have been fundraising for various national and local charities, and also engaging in the support of local community projects. These projects range from sponsoring children’s sporting activities to helping with the upkeep of community buildings. Before the Trust was launched in 2005, Moto People had donated £750,000 to worthy causes around the UK.

The decision to form the Trust was taken to reflect the passion and enthusiasm that Moto People have for charity and community support. As a charity in our own right we can quite simply make a bigger difference.

The Moto in the Community Trust is a grant making trust which spends time listening to feedback from Moto People about the communities they live in, and looking at opportunities for the Trust to provide support that will make a real impact on community life.

Find out if your organisation could benefit from our charity.

Read our guidelines on applying for a community grant.

2009 Projects

The Charity of the Year for 2009 is Macmillan Cancer Support.

Moto in the Community is again supporting Wellbeing of Women by holding a Purple WoW Day in February, raising money and awareness for the UK’s only charity dedicated to solving women’s health issues.

Our adopted schools are being provided with 200 environmental books and 1,200 leaf and flower swatch books from the Woodland Trust, and membership to the Woodland Trust Nature Detectives club, funded by the Trust.

We are launching our 2009 book programme to schools, Miles More Books and will again be providing each of our adopted schools with books to be used in the classroom and in school libraries, in partnership with OUP.

We are trialling cycling proficiency training in some of our schools.

We will once again be hosting Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning and supporting other events with our Charity of the Year.

We will be supporting Rainbow House by holding collections in Moto’s northern sites in the spring.

2008 achievements...

Given more than £70,000 to our charity of the Year, Macmillan Cancer Support

Provided more than 6,000 books to our network of adopted schools, specifically targeted at struggling readers. This was in conjunction with our partner Barrington Stoke.

Ran a fundraising day in aid of Wellbeing of Women, raising over £10,000 for the UK’s only charity dedicated to solving women’s health problems.

Held Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning across the Moto sites, raising a huge £20,500 for our Charity of the Year in just one day!

Supported the Royal British Legion collecting money and selling poppies at Moto sites in November.

2007 Achievements

10,000 new fiction books were delivered to 10,000 children in our adopted school network.

We donated £45,000 to our Charity of the Year, the Children’s Trust.

We pledged £73,300 to charities and good causes in the communities around Moto sites.

Continued to encourage Moto staff to become Reading Buddies and help in our adopted school network of 50 schools.

Donated almost £5,000 in Benevolent Grants to help Moto staff and their families dealing with a range of difficulties including bereavement and long-term illness. 

We forged strong relationships with the head teachers of our adopted schools to find out in which way we can best help the schools in our communities.

We have provided financial support for a number of environmental projects, including playground rejuvenation, sensory gardens, nature trails and children’s gardening clubs.
We helped 19 different children’s hospices and children’s wards over the Christmas period by donating books to help children awaiting surgery or receiving long-term treatment in hospital.

What did we achieve in 2007?

Click here to read our Annual Report

Macmillan Cancer Support improves the lives of people affected by cancer, by providing practical, medical, emotional and financial support.  Macmillan also campaign for better cancer care.

www.macmillan.org.uk