Barclaycard Horizons wins Award

Barclaycard Horizons wins Best Corporate Partnership in Third Sector Excellence Awards 2010. The award is given to a partnership between a voluntary organisation and a business that has demonstrated strong mutual benefits for both.

Good Values has worked closely with Barclaycard for four years, helping to advise and support them on maximising the impact and effectiveness of their Horizons programme. Horizons is a partnership that brings together the knowledge and expertise of three charities (Citizens Advice Bureau, Family Action and Gingerbread) to offer a comprehensive approach to tackling the poverty faced by single-parent families. The programme covers debt advice and financial literacy training, grants for education and training and an employability programme under the three strands of– Your Money, Your Education and Your Work.

Anand Shukla, business director at the Daycare Trust and one of the judges, said: “There was an impressive range of partners and variety of sectors involved. What was also impressive was the scale of the project and how the partners were making a very tangible difference.”

For more information on Horizons www.yourhorizons.com