As a sports team with a huge fan base, we have a platform. This means we have a responsibility to set standards, hold ourselves accountable to those standards and be authentic role models.
One year on from entering Formula, I have been encouraged to see the steady result of the team’s inclusion and social impact initiatives.
The wide range of activities and programmes that fall under the banner of Social, whether that is improving the health and wellbeing of our people, furthering inclusivity, providing work experience opportunities for the next generation or raising money for charity, all help our people see the impact they can make in the team and beyond, which builds an energy that can then be brought back into the workplace to drive performance.
Anca Raines, Chief People Officer
Since 2020, we have demonstrated our commitment to widening access into motorsport and the broader STEM fields. We have continued to partner with industry experts to increase the pipeline of diverse talent coming into the industry and to address the barriers faced by people from under-represented groups when entering Formula One.
As a sports team with a huge fan base, we have a platform. This means we have a responsibility to set standards, hold ourselves accountable to those standards and be authentic role models.
Anca Raines
A partnership between our team and the Mulberry Schools Trust, the Mulberry STEM Academy is an extra-curricular provision for learning, inspiration, and innovation. Through the STEM Academy programme we hope to increase the number of students from the ages of 7 to 18 studying STEM subjects.
The team supports the ‘Pathways to Engineering’ programme, supporting 50 students every year.
The team supports Stemettes’ ‘STEAM Seasons’, a series of activities to support girls and non-binary people aged 5 – 25 interested in pursuing STEAM careers.
Each year team members participate in a six-month mentoring programme with AFBE engineering students looking to begin careers within the sector. The programme aims to raise aspiration, build confidence, and increase the representation of black and ethnic minority (BME groups) at all levels.
Racing Pride is an innovative movement committed to positively promote LGBTQ+ inclusivity within the motorsport industry. Through the partnership we hope to further embed inclusivity within our team and help Racing Pride bring about significant and lasting change to the motorsport community and beyond.
Through the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Scholarship we aim to increase opportunities into motorsport for under-represented groups. The scholarship supports talented aspiring Aeronautical Engineers in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London.
Through our bespoke scholarship we have pledged £438,000 to help students take their next steps in STEM.
In collaboration with Star Academies, the team have created the Future Engineers Academy, an experiential enrichment programme to inspire and equip young people with the skills and confidence to pursue careers in engineering and motorsport.
Within our team, several employee networks exist to celebrate our diversity and learn about those different to our ourselves.
Our newest network, the Working Families Network, provides a community for our team members to share lived experiences with others.
Team members have taken part in a series of workshops on topics such as Pressure Management for Parents and Managing Working Parents for Managers.
Whilst we’ve celebrated Pride for many years, in February 2023, our team members formed an LGBTQ+ Network and in their first year, they helped organise our Pride Month activities in June.
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Members of our EDI Network met with senior management to discuss the team’s progress on embedding EDI within our culture. Network members also organised our Black History Month activities, which included a Black History Discovery Trail, cultural food served in our restaurant, a film night and an educational newsletter.
Following a successful first year, our Women’s Network continued to grow their membership with over 150 team members now benefiting from the community. The Network’s ‘Female Role Models’ talk series continued with women from across the team sharing their stories and welcomed external guest speakers for educational seminars.
Whilst we’ve celebrated Pride for many years, in February 2023, our team members formed an LGBTQ+ Network and in their first year, they helped organise our Pride Month activities in June.
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Members of our EDI Network met with senior management to discuss the team’s progress on embedding EDI within our culture. Network members also organised our Black History Month activities, which included a Black History Discovery Trail, cultural food served in our restaurant, a film night and an educational newsletter.
Following a successful first year, our Women’s Network continued to grow their membership with over 150 team members now benefiting from the community. The Network’s ‘Female Role Models’ talk series continued with women from across the team sharing their stories and welcomed external guest speakers for educational seminars.
Whilst we’ve celebrated Pride for many years, in February 2023, our team members formed an LGBTQ+ Network and in their first year, they helped organise our Pride Month activities in June.
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Throughout 2023, we launched new EDI toolkits to help support our managers and embedded EDI into our core HR practices and policies such as recruitment, performance, talent development and leadership.
Advice and training on Inclusion has been embedded in our Leadership app to help managers develop their understanding, with modules including Social Capital, Inclusion and Belonging.
We have developed a Dignity at Work policy with an accompanying e-learning module, conducted a review of our family friendly policies and practices and created a Social Pillar working group.
Founded in 1982, Helen & Douglas House helps families in Oxfordshire and the surrounding counties to cope with the challenges of caring for children with life-limiting and terminal conditions. The hospice provides round-the-clock care and gives families the time and space to create precious memories together.
Over the next two seasons, we aim to raise £100,000 for the hospice.
Our charity partnerships are chosen and led by our team members, and we are proud to have raised vital funds and awareness for some fantastic causes over the years.
Motorsport Charities
Our team are active supporters of the Grand Prix Trust, an organisation founded by Sir Jackie Stewart that aims to provide support for Formula One’s unsung heroes. In 2023, we helped to raise over £15,600 for the Trust.
At the beginning of 2025, we again helped raise nearly £16,000 for the Trust by auctioning off three items at the 2025 Autosport Awards in London - a 2023 race-worn driver suit, a tour of our Brackley factory, and a hospitality package and garage tour at the 2025 British Grand Prix.
We were pleased to support over 100 international, national and local charitable causes throughout 2023. Our donations of signed memorabilia, behind-the-scenes factory tours and exclusive garage visits for auctions, raffles, and prize draws have allowed charities to raise significant sums.
£3,000 for the Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity, a Buckinghamshire-based organisation dedicated to providing specialist care for patients with life-limiting illnesses.
£5,000 for the Pelorus Foundation, an independent charity that is committed to protecting, preserving, and promoting at-risk wildlife and environments.
£7,000 for the UKSF Association, an organisation that strives to support former and serving members of the Armed Forces and their immediate families in times of need.
€40,000 for the Blue Marine Foundation, a marine conversation charity that is dedicated to restoring the ocean to health by addressing overfishing.
In 2023, we were proud to provide over £37,000 of funding to organisations across our local Brackley community. Our local community is incredibly important to our team and being able to contribute to local schools, to help children and families in need and to be part of community events, helps to bring us all together.
While Brackley is our home, we are also deeply connected to the Formula One race locations, and we want to ensure our presence makes a positive contribution to local communities as we travel across the world.
We build relationships with schools, charities and individuals and welcome fans for Pit Lane walks, garage tours and to meet our drivers and team members wherever possible.
Educational outreach not only supports our local community but also contributes to our EDI goals by helping to promote STEM subjects in a range of educational settings.
Sponsoring the ‘Fastest Car Award’ at the F1 in Schools World Finals
Sponsoring the award for ‘Outstanding Motorsport Engineering Student’ at nearby Silverstone University Technical College
Welcoming pupils from Magdalen College School, Brackley and local youth group South Northants Youth Engagement to our factory to meet with astronaut Tim Peake and enjoy an exclusive Q&A.
Hosting an exclusive INWED experience for local Brownies and Girl Guides at Silverstone Museum
In some ways we are a small to medium business with a typical manufacturing environment but in other ways we are much more - a high-profile global sport. We consider health and safety in every aspect of the business, not just the car on the track but all the set-up, travel and operations for race events as well as everything that happens at our campus in Brackley, 24 hours a day.
Stuart Hughes, Head of Health and Safety
One of our biggest projects in health and safety in 2023 was to review and update the risk profile for every department in the operational environment.
As our operations are constantly changing and evolving, we must keep up-to-date and ensure that everyone in our team knows how to mitigate risk.
Every year we carry out a full Occupational Health Screening to safeguard our team members who are exposed to risks such as noise, hazardous substances and by-products from operational activity.
This process is a validation of our control measures and enables us to identify any issues early on and take steps to mitigate risks.
We have worked closely with the Governance team to update our Health and Safety Policy as part of the Integrity Code, enabling every member of the team to understand how they contribute to creating a healthy and safe environment.
In 2023, 89% of our team completed the Annual Health Assessment. This exceptionally high level of engagement reflects our commitment to care for our team and our culture of using data to drive improvement.
Analysing data at individual, departmental and whole team levels means that we can quickly assess opportunities for improvement within the team with our culture of healthy competition adding an incentive to adopt healthier behaviours.
During 2023, we worked with our Site Development team to develop the concept for our new Health and Wellbeing Centre as part of the campus redevelopment.
The Wellbeing Centre is an exciting project which will enable us to deliver all our care and services in one place, bringing our team members together not just for healthcare but to eat, socialise, take part in lunchtime activities and come back to work energised.