In the UK

GE has sites across the UK where GE volunteers work in schools to improve basic skills, raise aspirations and help to prepare young people for the World of Work. GE also supports a wide range of community organisations including hospitals, homeless shelters and children's homes.

In June 2007, during GE’s Global Volunteering Week, 1,100 GE volunteers in the UK gave over 7000 hours of service in their local communities. Every year, many sites take part in the World's Biggest Coffee morning to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Ongoing projects include:

Working with partners to create stimulating means of enhancing students’ financial literacy skills through games and role-play. Delivering the programmes in schools through GE volunteers
Student mentoring in secondary schools
Literacy and numeracy support in primary schools
Delivering Young Enterprise lessons in schools
Knitting programme at GE Money Home Lending in Greater London, created to meet the needs of local hospitals and hospices. Knitters of all ages come together every week to produce squares for blankets, pairs of bed socks, waistcoats, premature baby hats, burial gowns and cardigans
The annual Welsh Three Peaks walking challenge organised by volunteers from Aircraft Engines. Around 75 teams of ten enter, raising £100,000 for Ty Hafan children’s hospice

GE’s focus is disadvantaged communities often working with specialist educational providers such as Young Enterprise, Number Partners and STEMNET.

More than 1,100 UK volunteers were involved in Global Community Days in 2007