Community Investment

BA Better World Community Fund

Through our BA Better World Community Fund, we support projects and organisations that are working to enrich their communities and support long term change – including in the areas of community engagement, diversity and inclusion, wellbeing, climate action, and working to protect biodiversity and nature.

In 2025, we supported 173 charities and social enterprise projects across the UK. That’s a total of 367 projects supported since the Community Fund began back in 2022.

In 2025, British Airways directly contributed more than £1 million into the Community Fund and thanks to the generous donations from customers, colleagues, and the wider public, more than £3.5 million was raised in total.

That means since launching the Community Fund, we’ve together raised more than £10 million to support UK-based charities and social enterprises.

• Forestry England – restoring Harbottle Forest in Northumberland through the planting and monitoring of 9000 trees, and supporting Osprey conservation at Kielder Forest, also in Northumberland.
• The London Clean Air Initiative – a project in Newham to address challenges around air quality, health inequalities, environmental awareness, and access to nature
• Trees for Cities – planting, protecting and promoting urban trees in London (very close to Heathrow Airport), Glasgow, Cardiff, Newcastle and Brighton
• Orkney Skate Monitoring – protecting shark and skate species through community-led research

• Peatland restoration at Munsary – restoring crucial peatland habitat in the UNESCO designated Flow Country’s World Heritage Site
• Saltmarsh Protection – enhancing the ecology of the River Dart by protecting threatened saltmarsh
• Pesticide Free Devon – to reduce pesticide use across Devon by empowering communities, farmers and land
• Project Plastocene at Plymouth Marine Laboratory – assessing the true hidden carbon cost of marine plastics to generate new evidence to reduce plastic packaging waste

• London Wildlife Trust – protecting and enhancing seven nature reserves and country parks in Hillingdon
• Energy Garden – providing support for London communities to transform their local train station into gardens for food growing and biodiversity improvement
• Surplus to Supper – to bridge the gap between food waste and food poverty locally
• Football for Peace’s Rehydrate the Earth Campaign – to revive Rajasthan’s water and ecosystems by restoring groundwater and empowering communities and youth to protect their land and future.

Flying Start is the global charity partnership between British Airways and Comic Relief. Together, we want to help people in the UK and around the world to have the best possible start in life and the chance to have a brighter future.

In 2025, more than £600,000 was raised by colleagues and customers for Flying Start. That means that since our partnership began in 2010, more than £30.5 million has been raised – an incredible amount that we’re immensely proud of.

New parents in the UK, children in India, isolated and facing health challenges, and mums in South Africa determined not to pass HIV on to their babies, are just some of the 1.1 million people who our partnership has supported so far.

During our annual Red Nose Day campaign, we once again added a special Red Nose Day dessert to our in-flight menu and introduced a themed mocktail in our lounges to raise awareness in a fun and tasty way. We also offered customer Avios donation match funding, and our colleagues ramped up their fundraising activities participating in fun runs, hosting bakes sales and even taking to the streets as part of our annual trolley dash event to raise those vital funds!

Colleague Engagement

Today, we have more than 5,000 colleagues globally from across our operations who are active champions and are involved in fundraising and volunteering activity to support our charity partners on land and onboard our flights.

In 2025, our colleagues participated in a range of fundraising events- from joining the annual charity Touch Rugby tournament to participating in The King’s Trust Millon Maker’s challenge through to running the London marathon for our charity partners.

In 2025, we gifted our UK-based colleagues a £20 voucher to donate to any organisation supported by the BA Better World Community Fund. More than 37% of our UK-based colleagues donated their voucher, unlocking an additional £264,080 of funding for organisations across the UK supported via the BA Better World Community Fund.

Our colleagues also continued to give via the payroll. In 2025, 2,831 colleagues donated to 670 charities raising more than £942,000 through payroll giving. This year, we were also proud to be awarded The Charitable Giving Quality Mark award with diamond status.

In 2025, we also launched our dedicated colleague volunteering platform – offering more opportunities for colleagues to give their time to BA Better World Community Fund partners.

Customer Engagement

We continue to create ways for our customers and partners to donate to and support our community partners.

As well as giving on board, members of the British Airways Club can donate Avios to their chosen charity via the BA Better World Community Fund.

In 2025, The British Airways Club ran three match funding campaigns to double the value of Avios donations made to support Comic Relief, the Royal British Legion, and Alzheimer’s Society. Members donated more than 6 million Avios, supporting 94 BA Better World Community Fund-supported causes.