Corporate social responsibility
We have a long-standing commitment to pursuing responsible business practices in the workplace, in our environment and our community. Every person in our business is given three days each year to devote to any charity related activity they choose. This might be sitting on the Board of a charity, volunteering at a local initiative or participating in a charity event.
Why we engage in CSR
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities allow us to make a real difference in our community and in the wider environment, but they are truly valuable to our professionals too. They put our legal work into a broader context and find us working hard in ways that are quite different from our daily professional challenges. Taking part in CSR activities makes us all more rounded, experienced and well equipped to achieve the absolute best in everything we do, in both professional and personal contexts.
We encourage our staff to engage with the charity of their choice and we hold multiple firmwide initiatives in aid of our charity of the year, Alzheimer Scotland which was chosen by our people as the Anderson Strathern charity of the year for 2025-26.
Working with local communities
We take pride in volunteering to benefit local communities. Some established activities include tree-planting, assisting local social enterprises supporting disadvantaged communities while enabling our staff to strengthen existing working relationships.
Offering pro bono legal work to benefit social enterprises and charities is part of what we do at Anderson Strathern. We support our people in giving their time free of charge, or at a much reduced rate, on a small number of carefully selected activities.
We’ve supported Social Bite since 2014. We signed up a cycling team to support Social Bite’s fundraising for the new Urban Village in Edinburgh in September 2021 and carried out pro bono legal work for the first village. In 2025, we provided legal services related to the construction of the new Glasgow Village and the relocation of the Edinburgh Village.
Working with schools
The energy and belief behind our Gold Investors in Young People accreditation extends to young people in our local communities. We often take part in the Schools Mock Court Project, a cross-curricular skills development opportunity for primary schools. It’s truly inspiring to help pupils build their communication and presentation skills.
The firm is a signatory to the DYW (Developing the Young Workforce) Pledge. This is the successor to the Young Person’s Guarantee.
Our teams often attend secondary school career days to encourage the next generation to consider a career in law. We revisit local schools from year to year and have enjoyed developing a relationship with teachers and pupils at these schools.
For a decade, we have been involved in a paired reading project helping children at Roseburn Primary School in Edinburgh with their reading skills.