Giving Back

Ian Kilbride, Chief Executive Officer of Warwick, shares how his company is doing good in big and small ways.

It is an old and accepted adage that ‘charity begins at home’. And yet, at 55 years old, I’m still figuring out what that means. Most religions encourage their followers to do good deeds. Rotary Clubs and Masonic lodges tell members to take care of their homes and businesses, and then deliver to charity.

These all seem to boil down to the same thing: ensure that your family is safe, housed and fed, and then look to others and do what you can to make their lives better. Today it’s often difficult to differentiate philanthropy from publicity. Then again, perhaps it doesn’t matter, as long as the end result is that the less fortunate garner some benefit that they otherwise would never have enjoyed.