COMMUNITY
With Reed Elsevier’s strong position in educational publishing, we are now actively focusing our efforts and resources on education for disadvantaged young people and community initiatives of importance to local employees.

With a network of Community Champions spanning the whole of the business and co-ordinated by a Director of Community, we are developing or strengthening on-going reading programmes across the cities in which we operate.

Financial support to charities around the world in 2002 totalled £1.2m/1.9m. Our in-kind support includes employee time in building low income housing for Habitat for Humanity, developing jobability.com, a website promoting job opportunities for the disabled, and giving a large donation of legal and educational textbooks to Book Aid International, a charity providing educational books to the developing world. In 2002 we provided approximately £1m/1.6m of such in-kind support for charitable organisations.

In January 2003 we introduced Reed Elsevier Cares, a new Reed Elsevier wide community programme comprising voluntary activity, donations and communication, which will encompass new and existing activities.

For our full CSR report with details of our people, environmental performance and community focus, visit www.reedelsevier.com