Virgin Atlantic supports children and young people.

All projects must:

• Support children and young people who face extreme neglect, abuse, poverty, violence or social exclusion on a daily basis.
  
  
• Aim to prevent or alleviate the effects of illness, e.g. AIDS, malaria, leukaemia, meningitis, muscular dystrophy and other life-threatening diseases prevalent in children, or
  
  
• Aim to alleviate suffering in disaster areas.
  
  
• Have the capacity to create a significant impact and reach the greatest number of people.
  
  
• Have a clear and definite aim and finish date.
  
  
• Are able to clearly demonstrate benefits.
  
  
• Are able to demonstrate how long they can run without additional funding.
  
  

Where possible and appropriate, we also favour projects that encourage employee involvement and volunteering. We also favour small grass-roots beneficiaries who don’t often receive the kind of exposure larger charities regularly enjoy.

Virgin Atlantic only supports projects in the United Kingdom and in the destinations in which we operate. These are:

• Projects which don't support the welfare of children.
  
  
• Projects benefiting children but not in one of our destinations.
  
  
• Applications where funding will be used to pay salaries or be added to a general fund.
  
  
• We cannot support organisations who are not registered charities.
  
  
• We cannot support political or religious charities.
  
  
• Individuals seeking sponsorsip.
  
  
• Sponsoring charity events.