National
Valero is continuing Chevron’s long-standing donations to Action for Children, a U.K. children's charity, which have topped £1 million, with funds raised thanks to the support of our employees and our customers. The charity works with 140,000 of the U.K.’s most vulnerable children, young people and their families.
London
Valero projects support education programs in east London. Community Links helps thousands of children, teenagers, adults and older people in deprived neighborhoods of east London every year. It runs a network of more than 60 community projects that empower individuals and communities to help them build their own ladder out of poverty.
Mudchute Farm is the largest inner-city farm in the country. It continues to develop its services, particularly those for children in Tower Hamlets and the east end of London. There is an education centre that is used by some 15,000 school children a year from 78 schools in the east end of London. One of the classrooms was funded by Texaco and is named the Texaco classroom.
In a nationwide study by the University of Westminster for the Department of the Environment and other environment agencies, Mudchute Farm was singled out as a model of how a community-based project can run urban parkland creatively and at a very low cost.
Northern Ireland
Texaco has supported Youth Action Northern Ireland for the past 20 years, helping children through a series of developmental programs. This effort was recognized in 2007 with an award from the Northern Ireland Allianz Arts and Business Awards.
Pembroke
Valero’s Pembroke plant has a history of more than 45 years of community engagement in rural Pembrokeshire in southwest Wales.
The refinery has been active in south Wales in support of thousands of volunteers with groups, clubs and organisations across the region, and its fund-raising partnership with the cancer charity Macmillan Cancer Support is now in its third decade.
In 2009 Pembroke Refinery won the Best Employer category of the 2009 Modern Apprenticeship Awards for its Young Apprentices Programme, an engineering scholarship programme. The plant has had a sports development partnership with Pembrokeshire County Council, one of the longest-running sports partnerships in the U.K. A survey has estimated that more than 80 percent of the county’s primary school children participated.
The 2011 Pembroke Refinery Charity of the Year is the Wales Air Ambulance.
