Employee Nominations

The main Gusto Community Fund disbursements are made annually via a process that gets underway around 1st October each year. To start the grant-making process all permanent Gusto Group employees are invited to nominate a local good-cause/charity they would like to support, providing they have been employed for 3 months on 1st October that year. Once all the nominations have been gathered, each employee is then entitled to cast one vote for the good cause of their choice, with the value of £250 per vote (subject to available funds and up to a maximum of £2000 per good cause when the individual votes are accrued). Once this process is complete and approved by the Grant Administrators, the nominated charities are then invited to apply for a grant to the values for which they have been nominated.

Alongside the above main disbursement, the Fund also runs throughout the year a matched-funding scheme designed to support Gusto employees with their personal fund-raising efforts. Under this scheme, each employee may apply, using the form available below, once each calendar year for a grant that matches their own fund-raising efforts, up to a maximum of £250.

About the Grants

The grants made to beneficiaries are wholly funded by Gusto Group Ltd through a ring-fenced donation made annually to registered charity Collingham Community Trust (CCT). The Trust is assisted in the grant-making process by two pro-bono Gusto Community Fund Grant Administrators.

Grants can only be paid to good causes that are not directly linked to the person nominating them, and that have their own bank account (ie payments cannot be paid into an individual’s account). In the event of multiple nominations being made, there is an upper limit of £2,000 in any one year that will be paid to any single recipient or linked recipients. The Gusto Community Fund’s grant making year aligns with the calendar year.

Gusto Group Ltd is keen to support local communities in the areas in which it operates. By involving the buyers of new homes in making grant nominations (one per household) to local third-party good causes and community-based initiatives helps them to make new friends and support their new neighbourhood. The nominations made by the Gusto Construction & Homes teams reflects their role in creating the new homes and enables them to support good causes close to where they live or work. The nominations made by the Gusto Group & Rototek teams also enables them to support good causes close to where they live and work.