London—Dentons has once again been named one of the top community investors in the UK in the GivX Awards 2018. This is the second consecutive year that Dentons has featured in the top-25 ranking.

Dentons placed 12th in the overall rankings and was commended for its particularly strong performance in volunteering, where it was ranked in the top five by total volunteering score.

The GivX Awards use a simple, standardised framework to help businesses place a value on their giving and compare their performance with other organisations. A GivX point is equivalent to £1 and valued in line with the ‘Community Value’ approach that focuses on the replacement cost of gifts and support for charities. Around 90 businesses took part in the GivX Awards this year, and Dentons featured in the rankings alongside other top-25 winners, including National Grid, Kellogg’s, Deutsche Bank and ITV.

Jeremy Cohen, Dentons CEO for the UK and Middle East, said, "We are delighted to be recognised once again this year by GivX as a UK business that is pioneering best practice in CSR and making a positive impact on our wider community. Dentons aims to be in and of the communities in which we live and work, and one of the ways we do this is by giving back locally.

"We undertake countless community projects, including collaborating with the National Centre for Domestic Violence to support and protect victims of domestic violence through pro bono support. Also, following a decade of success with our award-winning Poplaw Legal Advice Clinic, we launched a second clinic in 2017. At these clinics, Dentons' lawyers provide free legal advice to the residents of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets."

Ben Darlington of Benefacto, the social enterprise that runs the GivX Awards, added, "We are delighted with the huge increase in participation in GivX this year. More than three times as many businesses have taken part and this allows us to provide them with an unprecedented level of insight into what good community investment practice looks like.

"We believe that by improving the quality of the management information available to corporate responsibility practitioners, GivX will allow businesses to build on both the quality and scale of their community investment."

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