Giving back & community

Success carries a responsibility to contribute.

The supplied book presents charitable giving not as a side note, but as one of the defining themes of Terence Hillier’s business story: supporting children, schools, sport, health, hospice, foodbank, wildlife and local community causes.

Services to the Community winnerSchools & youth sportHealth & hospice causesHistoric CSR record

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A practical form of philanthropy

Local, visible and connected to real people.

The 2016 biography records a broad programme of sponsorship, fundraising, school engagement and direct support. Hillier is described as the catalyst behind many of the initiatives, using the company’s staff, creative resources, premises, network and public profile as well as financial contributions. S1

The photograph documents a £1,000 presentation to Louie’s S.M.I.L.E.S. in February 2014. It forms part of a wider record that led to RACS Group receiving the Wiltshire Business Awards Services to the Community award in 2014.

Terence Hillier at a Louie's S.M.I.L.E.S. charity cheque presentation

The recorded programme

Three connected areas of impact.

These are historical activities documented by the book. The page does not imply that every programme or sponsorship remains active today.

Children, schools & opportunity

Links with Kingdown School included support for a Mount Everest expedition and a community initiative in Romania. The Academy of Trinity visited the offices for workshops intended to introduce children to the world of work, while the design studio supported the school newsletter. S1

Sport & participation

The book records sponsorship of senior and junior Warminster Town rugby and football, Bradford-on-Avon youth teams, Highbury Youth F.C. and local coaching initiatives designed to increase children’s participation in sport. S1

Health, hospice & community

Recorded beneficiaries include the Forever Friends Appeal at the Royal United Hospitals Bath, Children’s Hospice South West, Dorothy House, Louie’s S.M.I.L.E.S., Helping Rhinos and Warminster Foodbank, alongside individuals supported through fundraising and the annual Christmas raffle. S1

Images from the record

Community involvement in action.

The photographs below were reproduced from the supplied award biography and the user-provided chronology images.

RACS-supported youth rugby group with Terence Hillier

Helping Rhinos charity support photograph

Why it belongs in the biography

Giving back reflects the same values used to build the company.

1Trust. Long-term community relationships matter more than one-off publicity.
2Participation. Staff were encouraged to organise, fundraise and contribute their own skills.
3Opportunity. Schools, sport and work-experience activity were used to give children broader horizons.
4Practical support. Money, clothing, design, premises, vehicles, time and networks were all used where helpful.
5Family perspective. The public biography presents family as the principal source of motivation and proportion, while this website keeps private detail appropriately limited.

Historic scale

More than £30,000 through the Christmas raffle by 2016.

The book records a company raffle that had raised in excess of £30,000 over its first three years.

That figure is historical and belongs to the 2016 source period. It is included because it shows the organised, repeatable nature of the programme rather than a single donation. It should not be treated as a current lifetime total. S1

Publishing note: the website deliberately avoids sensitive family and beneficiary information that is unnecessary to explain the charitable record.

The wider story

Charitable contribution sits alongside entrepreneurship, employment and innovation.

Return to the full biography for the complete chronology, or review the awards page for the 2014 Services to the Community recognition.

Full biography Awards record