As the country's leading communications company, BT touches every aspect of life today - from family living, education and transportation to business productivity, healthcare and entertainment. BT takes a serious view of its responsibilities as a corporate citizen and has invested a significant portion of its profits back into society for many years. In fact, over the past 15 years BT has provided more than 170 million in funding to schemes for social and community improvement.
Communication is at the very heart of all of our lives.
And the goal of BT's social investment policy is to help create a society where the advantages of effective communication are available to everyone, regardless of background or situation. BT's support for poetry, through its sponsorship of the National Poetry Competition and the Poetry Society, is one example of BT helping to spread the word. After all, the arts remain one of the most natural ways of communicating, and throughout the years BT has supported just about every major art form from theatre and dance to jazz, steel bands and choral singing. Through BT's relationship with the Poetry Society the company has been able to reaffirm its belief in the value of words.