2025: A year of giving back to the community for KCOM
Since being founded in 1904 KCOM has always played an important role at the heart of the local community.
From supporting local events to volunteering with groups and charities across the region, KCOM loves helping to make local life better.
And 2025 has been no different. In fact, it’s been one of our busiest years ever supporting communities across Hull, East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.
KCOM’s Community Impact Partner Louise Babych, said: “It's been great to see teams volunteering from right across our business in 2025 - whether that's inspiring young people into STEM careers or helping older people thrive online, there's a genuine want to support our local community. I couldn't be more proud of the impact we've made this year and it shows what a force for good a company that’s part of the local community like KCOM can be.”
In 2025 we have…
- More than 2,000 children visited our Learning Zone on experience days with Hull and East Yorkshire Children’s University
- This year we reached our £120,000 milestone for out Digital Inclusion Grants
- In December, we celebrated our 15-year anniversary of the KCOM Learning Zone
- We won Community Champion and Digital Inclusion categories at the UK Fibre Awards
- We’ve delivered 30 STEM events for young people, featuring Industry Insight visits, STEM Engineering Days, Career events, and wider curriculum learning
- We won the Get Online Week Social Media competition for a second-year running
- 20 of our KCOM women interacted with over 400 students at the annual WiME event at Hull’s Guildhall
- Our volunteers have donated more than 1,200 hours to community events this year - including big projects like DIY SOS, Safer Internet Day and Humber STEM
- 18 work experience students out and about with teams across our business from legal to customer service and engineering
- Our KCOM Kits partnership with Hull City continued to hit the back of the net – with more than 180 local kids football teams now having received full team strips
- We hosted our annual International Women’s Day at our Hull HQ for 60 Sixth Form Students
- We delivered our annual Safer Internet Day for 40 primary school digital champions
- We gave out another £12,000 in Community grant funding to 22 local charities
- And we delivered 30 Digital Drop-In’s in our KCOM Learning Zone, helping older people thrive online