# Barclays launches £100 million COVID-19 Community Aid Package

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/04/14/barclays-launches-100-million-covid-19-community-aid-package/
- Published: 2020-04-14T08:38:04+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Barclays has launched The Barclays Foundation to deliver a £100 million package
to charities tackling the impact of COVID-19.**

The £100m package is in two parts: a corporate contribution of £50m will go to a
variety of charities working to support vulnerable people impacted by COVID-19, 
and in alleviating the associated social and economic hardship caused by the crisis.
While most of this money will be for the UK, some will also go to [Barclays](https://www.barclays.co.uk/)’
international markets, including the USA and India.

Barclays has also made a £50m commitment to match personal donations made by employees
to local charities of their choice working to support communities impacted by the
COVID-19 crisis.
 **SEE ALSO: [Charities invited to apply to Barclays 100×100 UK COVID-19 Community Relief Programme](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/05/06/charities-invited-to-apply-to-barclays-100x100-uk-covid-19-community-relief-programme/)(
6 May 2020)**

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Including employee donations, the package could reach £150m for charities. Barclays
has announced that senior staff will be donating part of their salaries: Barclays
PLC Chairman, Nigel Higgins, Group CEO, Jes Staley, and the Group Finance Director,
Tushar Morzaria, will each donate a third of their fixed pay for the next six months
to charities engaged in supporting vulnerable people impacted by COVID-19. Their
donations will be matched in full by the company under the matched donation programme.

Commenting on the launch of the package, Barclays Group CEO, Jes Staley, said:

> “As a bank we have been doing all we can to look after our customers, clients,
> and colleagues through this crisis, made possible by tens of thousands of amazing
> and dedicated Barclays people around the world who have been doing their utmost
> to keep our services running, and support the economy.
> “We want to do more to back the communities in which we live and work, and to 
> provide help to those who have been hardest hit by the consequences of the coronavirus
> pandemic.
> “That’s why we’ve launched this community aid package, which we hope will make
> a positive difference, working with charity partners here in the UK and around
> the world to deliver help where it’s needed most.”

_Editor’s update 12 July 2021_

_Barclays has [extended this funding](https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/07/12/barclays-extends-covid-19-funding-programme/),
offering 50 more £100,000 grants to eligible UK charities._