The manufacturer is pledging up to £2.5 million to support its charitable work in the first year, with plans to increase funding annually as the Foundation grows.
The charity will use the funds to award grants to charitable organisations and NGOs that benefit children and young people through initiatives that further their skills, knowledge and abilities, and reduce inequalities by providing opportunities to those who are disadvantaged.
The JLR Foundation will officially launch later in 2025, initially in the UK, with plans to expand globally in future.
The Foundation aligns with the commitment of JLR’s Reimagine strategy and will build on JLR’s track record of engaging directly with schools and communities to support youth and education.
JLR’s focus on youth development is also about improving accessibility pathways for young people into its business. Their Schools Partnerships Programme has reached over 40, 000 students in the UK and Ireland annually. JLR’s ambition is to reach 1 million students a year globally by the end of the decade. JLR’s
A new global education programme will also launch in 2025 to build transferable skills and support students in finding their unique place in the future of work.
JLR’s international charitable activity
JLR China recently celebrated ten years of its flagship youth programme, the Dream Fund. China’s first automotive charity fund dedicated to youth, in partnership with the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation has invested almost £12M in the fund to date, benefitting over 700,000 young people in China’s most underprivileged areas, including rebuilding a rural school destroyed by an earthquake ‑ now the JLR Hope School.
JLR also promotes science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to the younger generation. In the UK, its STEM Ambassador Programme has reached over 100,000 students, with support from hundreds of JLR employees, including members of the JLR Board. JLR’s ambition is to grow its ambassador base to 5,000 in partnership with 2,500 schools globally by the end of 2029.
In Brazil, a new socio‑environmental educational programme will launch this year, providing immersive science classes for school students aged 4 to 14 in the rural communities near JLR’s Itatiaia plant, to stimulate their interest in science as a potential future career prospect.
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