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Aberdeen Standard Investments Continues Vital Support Of London’s Air Ambulance Charity

Stuart Mitchell

Aberdeen Standard Investments has confirmed a new three-year charity partnership with London’s Air Ambulance, having supported the charity since 2012. The new partnership, that will run until 2023, will continue to provide lifesaving funding to the London’s Air Ambulance service, whose advanced trauma team treat critically injured patients on the roadside and serve the ten million people living and working within London and the M25. London’s Air Ambulance Charity is the only charity of its kind in London to perform immediate life-saving medical procedures normally only found in a hospital…

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The UK Equity Impact Employment Opportunities Fund’s First Annual Impact Report

Stuart Mitchell

Aberdeen Standard Investments has published its first annual impact report for the UK Equity Impact Employment Opportunities Fund. Launched in February 2018, the Fund positions itself as an innovative and compelling solution for those investors who wish to invest in UK equities in pursuit of both societal and financial benefits. In collaboration with Big Issue Invest (BII), the social investment arm of the Big Issue Group, the impact objective of the Fund is to support ‘decent job’ creation in the UK. Investment in skills and attracting talent has become a basis…

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Aberdeen Employee Sees Charitable Foundation-Backed Charity Make A Difference To Young Lives In Peru

Stuart Mitchell

An employee from Aberdeen Standard Investments’ Aberdeen office embarked on the volunteering trip of a lifetime to witness firsthand the positive impact a charity supported by its own Charitable Foundation is having on the lives of street children in South America. ChildHope supports work in schools around Lima, the capital of Peru, where despite rapid economic development, around a third of children live on less than $2 a day. Many children are subject to violence in schools, where despite national policy, they are often chastised by teachers using sticks, belts…

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