All Red Gate employees can spend one day a year on a charitable activity. If there's a charity that's important to you, and you feel you can make a difference, then Red Gate encourages you to work for them for a day. We think of it as Red Gate donating your unique talents. You still get paid, and you don't have to use any annual leave. The people you help get to feel good and we get to feel good at Red Gate too.

We support our Red Gate champions in their quest for glory in the Cambridge 5-a-side Football League. We are also an official sponsor of Histon Football Club. We are working voluntarily with Histon to increase awareness of their continued success in the Blue Square Premier League, and to offer support to their rising stars, some of whom who have been called up to the England squad for international games.

Red Gate is committed to building relationships with the local community, both through individuals' charitable activity day and through our charitable work for local causes.

Red Gate is proud to support various technology and business activities locally. Every year we award the "Red Gate Prize" to the best second year computer science student at Cambridge University. We also fund the "Red Gate Software Competition" for the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs. Red Gate is actively involved with the Cambridge Network and the Cambridge Business Lectures.

Red Gate has recycling bins dotted all around the offices and kitchens so we only throw away what we need to. We recycle all plastic bottles, Tetra-Pak cartons, paper and cardboard from our Feel Good Fridge so that we can feel healthy and be happy in the knowledge that we are helping to protect the environment. If you fancy visiting the nearby supermarket at lunchtime, you can also help yourself to a recycled plastic bag before you go.

Our printers are duplex helping us to save paper. Any paper that we do use is recycled. In the age of the paperless office, we're doing pretty well to avoid using too many trees.