Community & Charities

We aim to make a positive contribution to the quality of life in the communities where we operate.

Our community investment guidelines provide that we focus on local

environmental improvement and provision of free transport for community

activities. In addition to this activity across our corporate and licensee

network, we support UNICEF on a variety of projects. We also support

initiatives which are particularly important to local staff.

In 2007, our environmental activities have included:

Peninha, Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, Portugal We sponsored environmental NGO Quercus to help protect and preserve rare specimens of plants and trees in this unique upland micro-reserve.

Forest of Marston Vale, UK Our support for the forest continued with the planting of over 2,000 native trees.

Seville, Spain We have planted an orchard of orange trees at our rental station.

We have provided free transport - amongst others - to the following:

Les Restaurants du Coeur, France
We continue to provide vans to distribute food and hot meals to the needy.

Banco Alimentar Contra a Fome, Portugal
We provide vans to help distribute food from supermarkets to charities working with children and other people in need.

Stichting de NEES, Holland
We provide cars to transport disabled or chronically ill children.

Supporting staff volunteering and fundraising has continued in many countries including:

Community Volunteering, Spain Any member of staff who invests at least 12 hours of their own time on community volunteering every three months receives a contribution for their charity.

Community Volunteering, UK We took a staff team to the Ravenswood Village, a centre for people with learning difficulties, to renovate a garden and build a recording studio.

Charity Budgets, UK At the local level, each rental station or head office department is given a charity budget or five free "three day" car rentals to give to local charities. At the national level Avis UK supported Macmillian Cancer Support.

Incentivising Improved Performance, Italy We make donations to Medecins sans Frontieres based on improved quality performance by staff at each of the rental stations.

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