Social Contributions Activities Overseas[Europe]

Christmas presents for children in need

With the cooperation of local child care organization, our employees organized an initiative of giving Christmas presents to underprivileged children and impaired children. Children each wrote a "Christmas wish letter" and those letters were put on the Christmas tree in our lobby. 100 employees participated and picked up those letters and purchased the desired gifts for them.

World Hunger Aid (in 2008)

TEE made financial contributions of 25,000 Euro to World Hunger Aid which supports specific areas in the world where children are suffering from hunger.

Monthly donations to SOS Children's Villages

Building of relaxation garden for “Heilpaedagogischos Zentrum, Krefeld” (in 2008)

Twenty-eight employees from TEG devoted their time to build a leisure area outside the new workshops for about 55 mentally and physically challenged people working in the facility. They made paths, spread gravelly soil, drove stakes into the soil to make herb garden, and others built a robust swing frame from logs. Having only a day to accomplish the task, employees worked in teams and showed good team spirit.

Support to construction of a new school building (2006 - 2007)

TEG employee with his engineering background and know-how supported Internationale Schule amd Rhein for the construction of a new school building.

Sponsoring of FIFA World Cup public viewings (in 2006)

Organized FIFA World Cup public viewings at a local race track as a main sponsor.

Employees Dress Down Day

Since January 2004, every Friday, employees can wear casual clothes to work. In return, on the last Friday of each month, employees have the chance to raise money for a chosen charity by making a cash donation or buy raffle tickets. The employees nominate the charities for which money is raised. 3,834 pounds sterling was raised in a year.

Charity Fund

Employees at the Plymouth manufacturing plant (TPO) are involved in various fund-raising activities to support local good causes. This year 3,000 pounds and Toshiba products (TV) were donated.

Surrey Herald Schools Awards

In conjunction with the Surrey Herald newspaper, the company provides local schools monthly awards of 150 pounds sterling to recognize sporting excellence. Each year, Toshiba also awards 500 pounds sterling to a single school in recognition of outstanding achievement.

Severnside annual recycling award (in 2008)

Plymouth manufacturing site was awarded for its recycling initiatives which it has implemented and improved over the last few years.

Environmental Day (in 2008)

Local environmental groups were invited to an event to educate employees about environmental issues. Employees could wear something “Green” for the day for a donation. The money collected are given to two local charities.

Quiz night in aid of "Sports Relief" (in 2008)

Employees paid one pound sterling to take part in a quiz. The proceeds raised was donated to the "Sports Relief” charity.

Support to British Heart Foundation (in 2008) Sponsor of Devon Environmental Business Award (in 2008) Turning Off Neon Signs·Earth Hour Project (in 2008) Health & Well-Being Awareness Day (in 2007)

The activty was initiated to commemorate the receipt of the Business Health Networks Platinum Award in November 2006, local businesses were invited to attend the factory to promote products and services. Cholesterol and lung tests were also offered free of charge.

Environment Day

On the company's Environment Day, free energy-saving light bulbs and advice for reducing water usage were dispensed. Employees could win packets of crisps for correctly recalling details about CRISP, the company environmental policy. Information and questionnaires were supplied in English and Polish.

Sponsorship of a concert by the Weybridge Male Voice Choir Donation of TVs to Fresher Fortnight Support for local Surrey charities and schools Contribution to the Duke of Edinburgh Award 5-A-Side Soccer Team (in 2005)

TPO employees participate in local-5-a-side soccer and tournaments as Team Toshiba. This participation supports local sport, to the benefit of many young people.

Race for Life (in 2005)

Six TPO employees participated in a three mile run, in aid of breast cancer research. Employees raised 600 pounds in charity and TPO added funds to totalling, 1,000 pounds.

Donation of Toshiba Products

We donated a 37-inch LCD TV and a DVD player to a pediatric medical center in Moscow, for children who are there due to cephalopathy or to neurogenic diseases.

Bone Marrow Registration (in 2009)

Responding to the company's call, eight employees registered to be a bone marrow donor.

Blood donation

Every three months, a total of 450ml of blood was donated by three of our employees.

Donation to ROPARUN

A fundraising event to support kids diagnosed with cancer. Non-stop running from Paris to Rotterdam over a distance of 520 km. TMSE donated 5.000 Euro to one team: Toshiba Midnight Runners, aiming to collect 25.000 Euro. In total, 200 teams of 4,000 people participated to raise 4.3 million Euro.

Support for a hospital (in 2005)

To renovate the patient day room at the Langland Hospital, the company contributed funds. 6 TV sets were also given to the hospital.

Windsor Sponsored Carriage Drive

TMSUK and employees donated 280 pounds to charities such as Teen Cancer Trust, a day hospice, etc.

TOEL recycling initiative

To aim “green office” recycling activities has been promoted over 5 years. The recycling items has spread from paper and toner cartridge to plastic cups, batteries and others.

Wear It Pink Day

Since 2005, we have been participating in the “Wear it Pink Day,”an event hosted by the Breast Cancer Campaign to fund breast cancer research.
Participants wear pink clothing and make 2 pounds sterling contributions. In 2007, a total of 20 pounds sterling was donated to the Breast Cancer Campaign.
In 2008, Employees supported a participation of a colleague to a breast cancer charity run.
A total of 78 pounds sterling were donated to the campaign, constsing of the funds raised by the employees and the same amount added by the company.

Helen & Douglas House (in 2008)

To help the charity auction held at Helen & Douglas House, the company made in-kind donation of Toshiba television.

Support to a local boys football club

TOEL and Toshiba International Finance (UK) Plc. made cash donation to a local boys football club, with the aim of promoting children's sports activities in the region.

Support for a Japanese speech contest (2005, 2009)

Toshiba notebook PCs were donated as prizes to the winners of a Japanese speech contest.

Comic Relief—Red Nose Day 2007 Charity Support for the English Chamber Orchestra's Japanese Musicians concert series Employee volunteer shogi instructor at the Japanese Culture Festival Employee flute performance at the UK-Japan Music Society's 15th Anniversary concert Sponsorship of a London Symphony Orchestra concert Employee flute performance at the Mikana overseas kabuki performance Hosting of FIFA World Cup public viewing events (in 2006) Support for the City of London Festival (in 2006)

Sponsored a program featuring jiuta, a genre of traditional Japanese music, staged in an event held as part of the City of London Festival. Employees assisted in providing information and reception services.

Contributions to the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund (in 2005)

Donated 10,000 pounds sterling to the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund, which was hosted by the British Red Cross.

Community contributions through charity sports events

TREL employees actively participate in charity sports events on their own initiatives. In the charity relay race, Chariots of Fire, 300 pounds sterling from the company and 80 pounds sterling collected from employees were donated to the East Anglia Air Ambulance. In the Action 100 bike ride challenge, 40 pounds sterling collected from employees were donated to an organization engaged in medical research into incurable diseases.

Support to HEC Business school

TSF has been sponsoring a chair at HEC business school for five years since 2003. The objective of the chair was the investigation of the consequences of nomad technologies (portable computers, personal organizers, mobile phones) on human organization. The results of HEC research are now available and a book "The Mobile Company: Understand the impact of new technologies" has been published.

Sponsoring of French Medical Association (2004-)

L' enfant@l' hospital support handicapped children or children under treatment to have the opportunity to receive computer education. To support their activity, TSF made in-kind donation of computers worth 10,000 Euro, in 2007, worth 6,000 euro in 2008.

Charity Fundraising

TUIS supported the walk event for the breast cancer care. On May. 2008, two employees volunteered in the operation of the event and in total 650 pounds sterling was raised through sponsorship of both events. On Oct. 2008, we had a Pink Day whereby every employee wore something pink.

Dress Down Day

Once a month, we have a day when employees are allowed to come to work in casual clothing as long as they make a donation in return. This year the collected money was then donated to the BBC's Children in Need appeal and to a local volunteer group to go towards their Christmas charity for homeless people. Also, to commemorate an employee who unexpectedly left us last January, we made a memorial day to show our gratitude for his 40-year long service to the company and made a small contribution to St. Luke's Hospice.

Jeans for Genes (in 2008)

We set a day when employees can come to work in jeans and make a contribution to the fundraising event. The collected money, along with the proceeds from the sales of hand-made cakes, was then donated to a local pediatric research center for the treatment of children with genetic diseases.

Toshiba Charity Cookbook (in 2008)

Recipes collected from employees were put together into “Tosh Nosh Cook Book,” which were then sold to all employees, their families and friends to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis Society. Over 50 recipes were collected from 19 different employees and put together into colourful A5 booklet with waterproof cover. 160 British sterling was raised in the first two weeks.

Participation in the Capita Adventure Challenge (in 2008)

Team Toshiba was formed to participate in the Challenge. In total the Challenge raised 67,000 pounds sterling and the proceeds were donated to Macmillan Cancer which support people with cancer and their families and communities.

Xmas donation to NSPCC (in 2007) Arsenal Ticket auction (in 2007) Support for the Mega Hike event (in 2007)

The company supported the Ridgeway Mega Hike, organized by Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres. A participating employee team raised 2,000 pounds sterling.

Donation of merchandise for disabled jockeys (in 2007) Support for the Three Peaks Challenge event (in 2007) Donation of merchandise to St. Teresa's Catholic Primary School (in 2007)

Charity ball (in 2009)

Our president and human resource manager attended a charity ball, which donated the collected admission fee to a pediatric medical center for the purchase of new equipment, such as an X-ray machine.

Plant tour for high school students

The students received an insight into Toshiba products and into the general operation of the plant. They also enjoyed learnig about production line, from which they gained practical knowledge not offered by schools.

Clean up The World campaign (in 2007)

This initiative is to promote good environmental manners. TTCE provided plastic bags and protective gloves to collect waste in Kobierzyce area for students, pre-school children and citizens who took part in the activity.

Earth Hour (2008- )

All employees participated in the initiative to turn off their lights for just one hour to take action on global warming.

Day without Waste(in 2008)

To promote knowledge of how to produce waste presentation materials on waste segregation and posters were shown at company's canteen.

Sponsoring of Wroclaw City 2008 calendar TV sets donation for schools (in 2007)