Community Engagement

PwC in the Community

Community engagement is a very important element of our corporate responsibility strategy. We are keen to support the growth and development of not just our staff, but the community at large.

We support the Isle of Man community through charitable giving, voluntary work, sponsorship initiatives and our annual community project - we allocate time to every member of staff to take part in a chosen community project.

Alongside these intiatives, our people are given a paid day of leave to do volunteer work for a charity or non-profit organisation of their choice, helping to support local programmes that are meaningful to them.

Our annual community project

Each summer we take part in an annual community project where our staff are encouraged to work together and make a difference to our local community. We volunteer a morning or afternoon of each staff member's time to help and support a local Isle of Man charity or project. We have enjoyed supporting many projects over the years and in early 2023 we supported the Isle of Man Woodland Trust. As our charity of choice at Question of Sport 2022, we pledged to match funds raised for the charity and give our time to plant trees. Over three sessions, our team planted 1000 mostly native Manx tree species in two locations on the island. This project supported the charity's mission to protect existing woodland and create new woodland areas.

PwC Community Project 2023

Learn about our community project planting 1000 trees with the Isle of Man Woodland Trust.

Learn about some of the initiatives we support:

The Children’s Centre Rounders Tournament

PwC Isle of Man is proud to have sponsored the Rounders Tournament since 2017 with financial support covering the event costs, ensuring that funds raised by team entries go directly to support The Children's Centre's services.

The Tournament has been a huge success, growing from 13 teams competing to win the tournament to 36 teams battling it out. Each year this is a really friendly, sporting and community occasion, and everyone involved has a ball.

The Children’s Centre provides a variety of community initiatives and services aimed at enabling children, young people, and families to realise their full potential. They include adventure-based activities at venues across the Island, including coasteering and climbing, educational and nurturing programmes and rural experiences at the charity’s 15-acre Children’s Centre Farm.

Question of Sport

Question of Sport sponsored by PwC Isle of Man brings sporting brains together for an evening of competition, entertainment and networking, all whilst raising funds for local charities. We have sponsored the dinner, organised by the Isle of Man Sporting and Dining Club, since it began in 2012.

An array of local charities have been supported throughout the years and in 2023 the dinner raised £5,400, which was split between our charity of choice Crossroads Manx Workshop and the RNLI.

Family Library Summer Reading Scheme

The Summer Reading Scheme encourages reading, writing and creativity skills during the school summer holidays. Run by the Family Library, a Manx charity, providing a specialist centre for all young people, and an important social and literary resource for schools, adults and the wider Island community.

The challenge is great fun each year, alongside reading at least one book a week for six weeks, there is a points-scoring game, with prizes at the end. Each week there are different things to do in the library, including crafts, puzzles, games and activities, there’s lots of fun things to do at home too.

We are proud to have supported the Family Library since 2017 to offer this scheme for free to young members and families in the community. The children of PwC staff particularly like the party at the end!

Love Tech is a local charity made up of business community volunteers who organise educational activities to inspire and empower children, especially girls and young women, to explore science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) opportunities on the island.

PwC Isle of Man is pleased to sponsor their STEM SPARK initiative which sees volunteers and mentors offer to run assemblies and workshops at each of the island's primary schools, exploring STEM topics for two school years until early 2026. The schools each receive a donation of eight STEM books across age groups.

This builds on Love Tech's first book programme, also supported by PwC Isle of Man, which ran in a similar way and saw the charity deliver STEM assemblies and donate books to all thirty-three of the island's primary schools. School interest and positive feedback from this trial initative became the foundation for STEM SPARK.

Charity challenges

Every year our staff are encouraged to take part in many sporting activities and events on offer within the community as part of our ‘PwC Summer of Sport’. These include events such as the Parish Walk, Race the Sun, our 10,000 step challenge and the three peaks challenge all while raising money for charity, often ones that are close to our hearts.

Members of staff walk the Parish Walk in memory of a much-admired colleague Mark Freeman, who tragically lost his battle with Leukaemia aged 50 on 10 August 2010. Mark loved life and particularly sports, having taken part in the Parish Walk for 11 consecutive years: finishing in 2004 and 2007. Each year we sponsor a feeding table during the walk, providing the walkers with much-needed refreshments and support.

"The Mark Freeman trophy" was donated by his widow Carina and is awarded annually to the member of staff who takes part in the event and best demonstrates the values that Mark aspired to, being personal achievement, teamwork and having fun.

Take a look at our past community sponsorships:

The Big Splash summer sponsorship

In 2022 we supported Hospice Isle of Man's Wild in Art trail, The Big Splash. A fantastic initiative bringing residents, visitors and businesses together to fundraise for local charity, the trail was made up of a pod of beautifully designed dolphin sculptures placed around the Island's landscapes for all to enjoy. PwC Isle of Man's dolphin sculpture, Mona, was located in a very scenic spot at The Sound before being auctioned to raise funds for important funds for Hospice.

Learn more about The Big Splash

PwC reduces environmental impact of Pride festival

The Island's second Pride festival took place in the summer of 2022 and was attended by over 12,000 people. Organised by charity, Isle of Pride, a new commitment was made to improve the event's environmental sustainability.

PwC Isle of Man supported the event as the first ever 'Pride Nature Partner' to supply 5,000 reusable and recyclable 'Love is Love' cups which significantly reduced the festival's single use plastic waste to only 30kg.

PwC Hoops

At the start of 2020 we sponsored the Isle of Man Ladies Basketball team, the 'PwC Hoops' - the only female team on the island.

Our support helped them to buy new kits, continue to compete in the men’s league and support their campaign to build ladies basketball on the Isle of Man.