About Us

Supporting our community

We’re proud to come together and support the communities we live and work in. Every January we select a shortlist of charities for our teams to vote on and decide which good cause we’ll raise money for over the coming year.

For 2025/26, our Charity of the Year is the Bristol Animal Rescue Centre, which won an overwhelming majority of our teams’ support.

But our people have big hearts and lots to give, so as you’ll see they’re not the only charity or good cause to benefit from our support this year.

Our Charity of the Year

Bristol Animal Rescue Centre (Bristol A.R.C.) is the city’s oldest and largest animal rescue charity, providing shelter, care, and veterinary treatment to hundreds of sick, injured, and homeless animals every year. We are the first response for stray, abandoned, and mistreated pets in Bristol, and our on-site veterinary clinic also treats local wildlife and supports pet owners on low incomes through our community outreach work.

Money raised through this partnership will go directly towards the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of animals in need – from providing urgent medical care to funding enrichment, behavioural support and food during their stay. Every donation helps to give vulnerable animals a second chance.

Partnerships like this change the world

Everyone at James Hopkins Trust was thrilled to be chosen as Hazlewoods’ charity of the year, partnerships like this truly change the world for charities like us and we couldn’t do what we do without the practical and financial support of local companies, community groups and individuals.”

Sarah James, Trust Director.
The James Hopkins Trust

Fundraising and volunteering

Although the Bristol Animal Rescue Centre is our chosen Charity of the Year, we give all our employees a half day off each year to support a local good cause of their own choice. If you have any volunteering opportunities you’d like us to know about and possibly take part in, please get in touch.