The Jardine Cycle & Carriage (JC&C) Group believes in fulfilling its role as a corporate citizen and being socially responsible in the communities in which it operates. We are committed to making a difference in these communities and have over the years been involved in a diverse range of charity programmes. In 2007, our Group companies supported initiatives across the spectrum of community development, environmental conservation, religion and education.

Charity and Community
JC&C group companies made donations to various charitable activities throughout the year in the areas of mental health, the disabled and elderly, the arts and others.

The Care for the Community Programme by Cycle & Carriage saw donations of specially modified passenger vans to voluntary welfare organisations in Singapore such as Care Corner Family Service Centre, Life Community Services Society and Sunlove Abode for Intellectually-Infirmed. Since 1997, Cycle & Carriage has donated vehicles to more than 30 charities to help ease their transportation burden.

In 2007, Cycle & Carriage Bintang sponsored a community service television programme that encouraged road safety across Malaysia and also ran a campaign within the company to promote the importance of waste recycling.

Through its group companies and foundations, Astra invested in a range of programmes during the year to help raise standards in the areas of the environment, health and social welfare of its surrounding communities. Its corporate social responsibility groups, Astra Green Company and Astra Friendly Company, supported a series of environmental and social initiatives such as the publication and distribution of manuals, health and safety training programmes, conservation programmes and award presentations.

Astra continued to provide humanitarian assistance to victims of natural disasters. It provided assistance to flood victims in and around Jakarta in the form of support package for students and donated survival kits to victims of the earthquake in West Sumatra. Astra also donated medicine, food and clothes to the victims of the floods in Central and East Java.

Education and Training
Jardine Cycle & Carriage is committed to a S$1 million (US$630,000) contribution as a founding donor of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in support of the school’s academic study and research programmes on public policy and public management.

At the Singapore Management University, three JC&C scholarships were awarded to outstanding Business Management undergraduates during the year. The scholarship programme, which began in the 2000, provides financial aid to students with excellent academic ability, strong community involvement and leadership skills.

Astra, through its Toyota and Astra Foundation, granted more than 3,600 scholarships to students and funded scientific researches, teaching aids and training programmes. The Astra Bina Ilmu Foundation, another education development group, also supported education in the less-developed regions of Indonesia, providing education materials and teaching aids to schools.

Astra provided financing support to more than 2,500 small and medium enterprises (SME) around Indonesia. Its SME supervisory programme has helped build relationships between the SMEs in the Greater Jakarta area with various government institutions, state-owned enterprises and private companies.