AHMM’s Partnerships work builds upon the practice’s thirty years of charitable giving and philanthropic support, as well as its active role in educating and developing the next generation of architects. Our Founders’ Statement says: ‘More than thirty years of collaboration has reinforced our belief in engaging with and contributing to the wider world by sharing our skills and donating our resources in those areas that have the most impact’. 

With the transfer to an Employee Ownership Trust, all AHMM staff have a chance to contribute to our Partnerships work and we have an active Partnerships Group drawn from across the practice supporting this. The group organises volunteering opportunities; gives match donations; supports office-wide fundraising and collections; and builds partnerships to collaborate in the longer term. We also undertake Social Value work connected to our projects.

The focus for our Partnerships work is in five areas: COMMUNITY, EDUCATION, HUMANITARIAN, CLIMATE CRISIS, and SUPPORTING THE SECTOR

In 2020/21 AHMM supported 98 good causes, giving £170,000 within the UK and our Oklahoma office donating US$10,000. In 2020/21 in response to Covid restrictions, most partnerships activity went online with 245 staff undertaking 1,451 hours of employer supported volunteering. 

Find out more about our Partnerships work below, and read our Corporate Responsibility Policy here.

image: AHMM mentors supporting Urban Learners, credit: George Whale

 

£236,621

Funds donated 2021/22

148

Causes supported 2021/22

2,128

Hours volunteered 2021/22

1

Pro bono projects 2021/22

 
Community

We donate to, and volunteer with, charities supporting our local communities in London, Bristol and Oklahoma City. We also use our design skills to add community benefit and social value to our projects. In 2020/21 we supported charities helping communities where food poverty and mental health had been exacerbated by Covid.

 
Humanitarian

We provide support to refugee communities and donate at speed to disaster emergencies, also regularly funding architecture humanitarian charities. As well as financial support where possible our humanitarian engagements are skills exchanges such as our ongoing support for Migrateful, a cookery and language initiative where refugees teach their traditional cuisines. We regularly host cookery classes in the office and support their longer term development by funding food hygiene training and cookery equipment sets for the chefs and are designing their new cookery school pro bono.

 
Education

Our education mentors contribute to learning projects, aiming to ensure that the future architecture profession represents all parts of our culture and we also support formal and informal learning programmes promoting understanding of how architecture informs the world around us. We work with all ages from pre-school children to older people, often using our buildings as resources for groups to explore with us. As well as organising our own educational activities, our education mentors participate in external programmes.

 
Climate Crisis

AHMM has joined fellow Stirling Prize winning practices calling for architects and the wider construction industry to take collective action to address the climate and biodiversity emergency. We support ways to engage the staff team with international and local charities addressing the climate crisis.

 
Supporting the Sector

AHMM continues to support our sector through sponsorship and memberships; donations to architecture-related charities; support for schools of architecture and one-off collaborations with sector partners. As well as philanthropic support and investment in the future of our profession, we support emerging critical debate and innovative thinking around architecture and the wider culture. Beyond our sector, we are committed to ensuring everyone is paid the Living Wage Foundation accredited rate of pay.

 
Match Funding

We give match donations to our staff team towards their fundraising for sporting and other personal and group endeavours; we also match office-wide fundraising. Our Charity of the Year also provides a focus for everyone to fundraise together and these collective efforts are matched as well as learning more about the work of one charity, which we continue to support longer-term.

 
Volunteering

We build partnerships with charities longer-term through regular volunteering in addition to ongoing financial support. We support staff volunteering including education mentoring, strategic board roles and volunteering sessions with local communities. In 2020/21 in response to Covid restrictions, most partnerships activity went online with 245 staff undertaking 1,451 hours of employer supported volunteering.

 

Who we support

AHMM CHARITY OF THE YEAR 2022 ACCUMULATE THE ART SCHOOL FOR THE HOMELESS

ACCUMULATE / ALBERT KENNEDY TRUST / ALLIED ARTS/ ARCHITECTS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY / ARCHITECTS DECLARE / ARSIS / ARTICLE 12 / ARTICLE 25 / BEYOND THE BOX / BIKE PROJECT / BLACK FEMALES IN ARCHITECTURE / BLACK LIVES MATTER (UK) / BLACK LIVES MATTER (US) / BLOODY GOOD PERIOD / BRISTOL ABOVE & BEYOND NHS CHARITY / BRISTOL MIND / CALANOA AMAZONAS FOUNDATION / CANCER RESEARCH UK / CARING IN BRISTOL / CHARLES DARWIN FOUNDATION / CO EXIST COMMUNITY KITCHEN / COLOR POSITIVE MUMBAI / CURBSIDE CHRONICLE / DIVERSITY CENTER OF OKLAHOMA / FARE SHARE FOODBANKS / FCV DORCAS / FOND 5.5 CROATIA / GARDEN CLASSROOM / GOOD GRIEF TRUST / HELP REFUGEES / HOST NATION / IMPACT LEBANON / INVEST IN ME / KIJANA KWANZA ‘YOUNG PEOPLE FIRST’ TANZANIA / LEBANESE RED CROSS / LEMON TREE TRUST / MACS / MAGPIE PROJECT / MAUDSLEY CHARITY / MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES / MIGRATEFUL / MILES FOR REFUGEES / MISION GAIA / MORIA REFUGEE CAMP / NEW ART STUDIO / NORWOOD / OKC CITY RESCUE MISSION / OKLAHOMANS FOR EQUALITY / OTHER OPTIONS / PIVOT – TINY HOMES / POSITIVE TOMORROWS / OPEN CITY - ACCELERATE / ORANGE BABIES / OUTSIDE PROJECT CLERKENWELL / QUEER BRITAIN / SAVE THE CHILDREN / SEA WATCH / SERV-KENT / SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD / SOCIAL MOBILITY FOUNDATION / ST CHRISTOPHER’S HOSPICE / ST GEORGE’S NHS HOSPITAL CHARITY / ST JEROME’S CENTRE / ST JOSEPH’S HOSPICE / ST LUKE’S COMMUNITY CENTRE / ST PETER’S HOSPICE / SANDWICHES WITH LOVE / SHARING TREE / SPERO PROJECT / TREE BANK / STEPHEN LAWRENCE CHARITABLE TRUST / SUFRA / THE MARMALADE TRUST / TREES FOR CITIES / TRINITY ARTS / TRUSSELL TRUST FOOD BANKS / TUMAINI CHILDREN’S CHARITY / MALAYSIA CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECT / WALKER PRIMARY SCHOOL / WIGGLY T / YOUNG MINDS / YWCA OKLAHOMA CITY

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