Hammersmith-based L'Oréal give helping hand to community

STAFF from L’Oréal rolled up their sleeves and headed out into the community this week.

Employees from the global cosmetics company, based in Hammersmith, have been getting hands-on at a number of local organisations as part of its Citizen Day scheme, in which workers take a day off work to support good causes.

This has included setting up a call centre and manning the phones at women's cancer charity Look Good Feel Better in Hammersmith, revamping a garden at Kenmont Primary School in Kensal Green, providing interview skills to students at Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College and planting bulbs and shrubs in Parsons Green.

Last year the office helped over 330 organisations and raised more than £1.4million, making the branch the biggest contributor to good causes in Europe outside France.