# Inaugural GivX awards celebrate top 25 UK community investors

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/10/16/inaugural-givx-awards-celebrate-top-25-uk-community-investors/
- Published: 2017-10-16T09:00:30+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The inaugural GivX awards launched this month, celebrating the UK’s top 25 community
investors as measured through their per capita contribution of volunteering and 
fundraising.**

Twenty-eight companies used [GivX](http://givx.org/) this year to measure their 
community investment and also submitted their scores to be considered for GivX’s
Top 25. The 2017 GivX 25 include [Euromonitor](http://www.euromonitor.com/), ITV,
HSBC, Cisco, Dixons Carphone, and John Lewis.

Developed by [Benefacto](https://benefacto.org/), GivX’s aim is to make communicating
and comparing the CSR work companies do more easily understandable. The framework
is free to use and measures value based on six key metrics, with companies reporting
just their total contribution, and a per employee score. Donations, fundraising 
and volunteering work are made comparable in terms of the ‘Community Value’ a company
has created: defined as the replacement cost benefitting charities would have to
pay if they were to purchase similar goods or services on the open market.

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Ben Darlington, Benefacto Head of Member Services, said:

> “The principle behind the GivX framework is one of simplifying CSR measurements
> to make it easier for businesses and organisations to measure their contribution
> to the community and then communicate it. Our inaugural awards were to celebrate
> an innovative group of companies, who by pioneering the framework, are committing
> to transparently and effectively reporting their change-making community investment
> programmes.”

Image: Euromonitor CSR Director with GivX Founder

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