CSR Policy and Initiatives

The commitment of the Company to Corporate Social Responsibility is derived from our corporate ethos of caring and service. The Company believes in silent but effective interventions in areas identified by us as worthy of assistance. The underlining principle in our CSR activities is in line with the Swire motto "Esse quam videre" -"To be, rather than seem to be ".

The Company has decided to focus it's efforts on two aspects of the UN's Millennium Developments Goals namely gender equality and care for the environment.

Among other CSR initiatives carried out by Finlays were the following;

The Ragama Rehabilitation Hospital renders valuable service to society by providing long term care and orientation to persons with permanent impairment to their spinal cord. As a public institute they are finding it difficult to obtain some important and basic requirements of the hospital. Finlays, came to their assistance by upgrading ward number 5, dedicated to young women suffering from injuries to their spinal cord.

Environment:

Free Mosquito Treatment to Vauxhall Street Residents:

Finlays Colombo reaches out to IDPs.

A 14 member team from Finlays Colombo delivered 2,805 educational packs to school children and 40 mamotties to the government welfare centers for IDPs (Internally displaced Persons) in Weerapuram and Sumathipura on 24th August 2009. The educational material consisted of exercise books, Bristol boards, pens, pencils chalk, erasers and uniform material all packed in school bags. The material was taken in two 20 foot containers to the welfare centres off the Medawachchiya Mannar Road.

On 20th June 2009 a team from Finlays Colombo visited these two welfare centers to provide building material to construct 6 toilet blocks of 5 toilets each. During the visit the authorities in charge of the centres brought to our attention the urgent need to provide educational material to schoolchildren some of whom had not attended school for 6 month. An appeal was made to Finlays UK and the Swire Charity Trust which immediately approved the venture and made finances available.

The welfare centres provided us with a detailed list of requirements broken down in to ages and gender of children. The gigantic task of procurement as well as sorting, packing and loading of material was carried out with leadership given by a team consisting of Pravinth, Dharmini, Udeshika, Sathyajith, Shabbir and Thakshila. A notable feature was the enthusiasm displayed by all heads of divisions as well as individuals who ungrudgingly went beyond the call of duty to help in making the material ready for dispatch. Once again the Finlays team was able to display its commitment to be of assistance towards fellow human beings.