East Anglia's Children's Hospices
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Community in Cambridge
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Charity of the Year in Cambridge
One of the ways in which we support the local community is through our Cambridge Charity of the Year programme. We chose EACH in 2020 following an employee nomination process and charity review panel consisting of employee representatives. Due to the limitations and restrictions COVID-19 placed on our planned fundraising activity, we decided to extend this partnership into 2021.
EACH cares for children and young people with life-threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. There are currently more than 2,000 children and young people in the area living with a life-threatening condition – this figure is growing rapidly, with Public Health studies reporting this could be as high as 6,000 by 2025. Through specialist services, wellbeing activities and counselling, EACH supports the individual needs of children, young people and their families as a whole – both in its safe and comforting hospices and in the family home.
We are delighted to be continuing our support of EACH, as originally nominated by our Cambridge-based colleagues; to fulfil our promise to them at a time when they really do need our support more than ever. We hope to make a significant impact on those in our community who rely so heavily on EACH for vital support at the hardest of times.
AstraZeneca will be working with EACH throughout 2021 on a range of fundraising activities. Phil Gormley, EACH CEO said: “Like many charities, 2020 was an incredibly challenging year for EACH and for all the children, young people and families who need our support. In such a difficult year, it has been the continued support of incredible partners and supporters like AstraZeneca that has helped EACH to continue delivering vital care to life-threatened children and their families and we are thrilled to be continuing our partnership into 2021”.
STEM
STEM Outreach Activities & Partnerships in Cambridge
STEM in Cambridge
We want to inspire the next generation of scientists through our STEM outreach programme, and by our student apprenticeship and graduate placement programmes. In Cambridge we are in partnership with many organisations as well as shaping and delivering science activities and programmes to local schools and colleges
STEM Ambassadors:
Over 100 of our employees are STEM volunteers in Cambridge, cultivating and inspiring talent for the future. Our volunteers are involved in some exciting initiatives in the city and the surrounding areas:
The Cambridge Science Centre, helping 60,000 children and young adults a year discover life sciences.
The Cambridge Festival, public engagement through outreach activities, talks and sponsorship.
The Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology, through an annual challenge for 14-18-year-olds and joint outreach.
The Cambridge United Community Trust – Active Science programme – ‘meet a scientist’ sessions in primary schools.
Enthuse Partnerships – High impact programmes working in partnership with selected schools, combining teacher development with engaging and inspirational activities for students.
Shaping and delivering science activities and supporting our employees in their local schools meeting the national curriculum and Gatsby benchmarks.
From connecting entrepreneurs with dedicated business mentors, organising guest lectures to offering internship, we have more than 75 business mentors in Cambridge. To date around 90 start-ups have benefited from their advice so far.
Judge Business School
As part of our relationship with the Cambridge Judge Business School, we support a number of programmes run by the Business School’s Entrepreneurship Centre. This includes Accelerate Cambridge, which is an initiative designed to further engage, train and mentor fledgling life science businesses. Over 60 colleagues from AstraZeneca are now involved in the programme and over 75 start-ups have benefitted so far.
Lucy Cavendish College
Our strategic collaboration with the Lucy Cavendish College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, supports our common goals of advancing women in science and business leadership. We provide one-to-one mentoring to students, supporting their scientific projects as well as career and personal development, and offer work placement opportunities in the life sciences sector, including at our global hub in Cambridge.
Accelerate@Babraham
We support the new bio-incubator and life science accelerator at the Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge by offering new life-science ventures, one-to-one mentoring and entrepreneurial guidance.
Panacea Stars
Panacea Stars is a life and health sciences accelerator programme by Panacea Innovation that aims to enable bio-entrepreneurs turn their scientific ideas into marketable products. We support the scheme providing business mentors who are coupled with a team for eight weeks to help develop their business plan. The programme culminates in a final pitching competition in Oxford where a winner of the programme will be chosen.
