Bestway Foundation
In 1987 the Bestway Group established the Bestway Foundation.[19][20][21] It is a charitable trust of the Bestway Group that works exclusively in the health[22][23] and education sectors.[24][25] Every year the Group contributes approximately 2.5% of its profit to the Foundation, which helps support charities and contributes to help the local community. In the last decade Bestway Foundation has invested in 35 inner city schools in as part of the Specialist Schools & Academies Program.
In 1997 Bestway Foundation Pakistan was established and Choudrey was appointed Chairman of Bestway Foundation Pakistan.[26]
In February 2013, the Bestway Foundation and University of Bradford signed a five-year agreement that committed £250,000 each to jointly fund five annual scholarships to support postgraduate students applying from Pakistan.[27][28][29]
In May 2014 Bestway Cement Limited was ranked 10th out of 478 PLCs by volume of donations in Pakistan according to Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP) Philanthropy Survey 2012.[30]
In October 2014 Bestway Foundation (Rs. 50 Million) [31] and United Bank Limited[32] (Rs. 100 Million) donated Rs. 150 Million to Foreman Christian College Lahore, Pakistan. FC College which is one of the oldest academic institutions of South Asia was founded in 1864 by Dr Charles W Forman, a Presbyterian missionary from the United States of America.
In May 2015 the charitable trust gave £1 million towards graduate scholarships at Oxford University.[33] The gift created an endowment that enables two graduate students from Pakistan[34] per year to study at Oxford, in perpetuity, through the Oxford-Sir Anwar Pervez Graduate Scholarships.[35]
In October 2016, the Bestway Foundation and University of Kent signed a five-year agreement that committed £250,000 each to jointly fund five annual scholarships to support postgraduate students applying from Pakistan.[36][37][38]
In February 2017 the UK's third largest retail pharmacist, Well Pharmacy, launched its charity partnership with the Stroke Association. Well seeks to raise £250,000 under Know Your Blood Pressure campaign for the country's leading charity dedicated to conquering stroke.[39][40]
In November 2017, the Bestway Foundation donated £100,000 NSPCC the children's charity.[41]
In March 2018 Well Pharmacy donated over 35,000 Foster Grant sunglasses and reading glasses, with a total estimated retail value of £946,000 to In Kind Direct, which distributes consumer goods donated by companies to UK charities.[42]
In November 2018; the Group's charitable trust donated £100,000 to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.[43][44]
In Pakistan the Group has donated £900,000 towards the construction of dams and large scale water Reservoirs.[45][46]
The company has donated £14.8 million[47] to the charitable trust in the UK[48][49] and provided over US$9.0 million to health, education[50][51][52] and humanitarian causes in Pakistan.[51][53][54][55]
In November 2019, Bestway Foundation donated £100,000 to the Save The Children - a charity that Bestway's charitable trust has been supporting since 2004.[58]
In April 2020 the Group companies in Pakistan donated Rs.600 million to fight COVID-19 in Pakistan.[59]
In July 2021 the Bestway Foundation donated £975,000 to the Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge to establish a £1.3 million Lord Choudrey Scholarship Fund to provide scholarships for PhD students; named in honour of Lord Choudrey.[60]
