Communities

Central to our goal of positively impacting 500,000 by FY 2025/26 is our flagship Burberry Inspire programme, which serves as the cornerstone of our efforts in supporting young people.

Burberry Inspire is a global initiative dedicated to providing safe spaces for young people to explore their creativity, develop new skills and build a more positive future. With a focus on young people aged 10-24, the programme champions the mission of The Burberry Foundation and brings all youth-focused activity conducted by both the Foundation and Burberry Group Plc together under a single identity.

Through a network of partnerships in nine regions across the world, the initiative has impact at both global and local levels. Burberry Inspire offers skills development in a variety of fields, from creative arts and design to sports and STEM-related activities, entrepreneurship and initiatives aimed at breaking down educational barriers.

Discover more about Burberry Inspire here

At Burberry, we offer all our colleagues three paid volunteering days a year to give back to the causes they care about most.

In FY 2024/25 a volunteering highlight included our colleagues coming together ahead of the festive season to support two of our Burberry Inspire partners. Wearing festive jumpers in aid of Save the Children UK’s annual Christmas Jumper Day, our colleagues orchestrated a ‘Wrapped by Burberry’ gift drive to support national youth charity OnSide. Using an array of items donated by our corporate teams, all gifts were wrapped by hand in festive packaging and distributed to youth zones across London and Leeds, ensuring that all their young people had something special to open at Christmas.

In April 2025, Burberry teams across the globe also contributed their days to a range of projects designed to protect wildlife and enhance biodiversity. In London, colleagues worked with Thames 21 to restore natural river processes along the Thames, while in Hong Kong volunteers combined ecological education with a beach clean-up with Community Co-Learning on Shui Hau Island.

We are committed to protecting the communities that our global colleagues and customers are a part of by responding to humanitarian needs. 

From repurposing our global manufacturing sites to create PPE for the fight against COVID-19, to supporting emergency relief funds for natural disasters and conflicts across the world, people are at the heart of our business.

In late 2023, we supported The British Red Cross appeals following the devastating earthquake in Morocco, catastrophic flash flooding in Libya and the escalating conflict between Israel and Gaza to support the provision of humanitarian aid to civilians affected by the crises. We also matched any colleague donations to these relief efforts, doubling the impact of our support to the relevant British Red Cross appeals.

Further to this, in October 2023 The Burberry Foundation launched a partnership with Save the Children to help young Ukrainian refugees recover by enhancing their education and career prospects, improving social and emotional well-being, and empowering them to become agents of change within their communities.

While we promote internal reuse of our visual merchandising across our store network and client events, we also continue to foster creativity within our local communities through donations of props, furniture and materials.

In FY 2024/25 we established a partnership with immersive theatre company Punch Drunk Ltd, with donations of 2,000 square metres of bespoke lilac carpets previously used in FY 2024/25 shows. Following our Harrods takeover in February 2024, we donated 1,600 metres of fabric and rope to Reloved Revolution, a creative re-manufacturing initiative working in partnership with people who have experienced homelessness, to upcycle materials into furniture.

We also introduced a new volunteering concept for colleagues with our longstanding partner OnSide Youth. With a focus on fostering circular design principles, we donated materials such as plinths, decorative sculptures, flooring, roofing and upholstery samples to Legacy Youth Zone and OnSide West London for a ‘Burberry Store Design Challenge’. The challenge saw young people design and pitch their own store concept to a panel of judges, guided by volunteer mentors from Burberry’s Architecture team. Participants gained hands-on experience in applying design principles and architectural concepts to retail spaces, with the winning team receiving a trip to our Sloane Street store.