Trainee Challenge 2025: Supporting Jackie's Drop-In
Willmott Dixon volunteers delivered vital improvements for a charity supporting individuals with disabilities.
Making a difference in our communities
All our projects place people and communities at their heart. We work with our customers to create opportunity, support those who need it most, and help communities thrive long after we have left site. In 2025, our work delivered £472 million in social return on investment across our live projects.
Social value is how we build
We listen carefully to people to understand their needs and plan where we can have the most impact. In 2025, 100% of our projects had a social value plan co-created with the customer, shaped around the needs of each community: enabling local people facing barriers to work, helping young people explore careers in construction, and supporting the causes that matter most. Feedback from beneficiaries shows the value of that effort, with 91% rating our community activities as high impact.
Our impact in 2025
| £472.0m | social return on investment across our live projects |
| 100% | of projects with a social value plan co-created with the customer |
| £5.32m | spent with social enterprises |
| 11,000+ | hours volunteered by our people in their communities |
| 93% | of our people delivered a social value activity |
| 91% | of beneficiaries rated our community activities as high impact |
| 3,500+ | people supported through employability sessions |
| 23 | people supported into sustainable employment — seven hired directly by us |
In a sector that needs more people and a wider range of skills, we ran employability sessions for more than 3,500 people in 2025, and supported 23 individuals furthest from the job market into sustainable employment, seven of whom joined Willmott Dixon directly. Our aim is to support 1,000 with barriers to employment into sustainable careers by 2030.
The reach of this work depends on people across the business. In 2025, 93% of our people took part in a social value activity, contributing more than 11,000 volunteering hours in their communities.
King's Awards for Enterprise
Our approach to social value was recognised in 2023 when Willmott Dixon received a King’s Award for Enterprise in the Promoting Opportunity category.
The award reflected work taking place across our projects and programmes to help people access advice, skills and employment opportunities.
The Peter Willmott Foundation
The Peter Willmott Foundation was created to honour the values of Peter Willmott — values that continue to shape our long-running sense of responsibility, service and commitment to leaving a lasting legacy.
Through charitable giving, the Foundation makes a practical difference by supporting charities and community organisations that help people overcome barriers, build confidence and access greater stability and opportunity. From tackling food poverty and building life skills, to supporting vulnerable people and strengthening community wellbeing, it carries forward a tradition of community commitment that has run through generations of our family business.