<p>Barratt Developments has launched a Charitable Foundation to mark building its 500,000th home.</p> <p>The new Barratt Foundation brings the volume housebuilder’s wide-ranging charitable activity under one organisation. Barratt said this would provide a “long term strategy” to its charitable giving.</p> <p>The company is marking the launch of the Foundation and reaching its building milestone by donating £500,000 across ten charities. Barratt’s employees voted on which of these should receive the largest share of the donation. Number one was Macmillan Cancer Support which will receive £150,000. Dementia UK was voted second and is being given £75,000.</p> <p>CALM, The Wildlife Trusts and Marie Curie will each receive £50,000, with Re-engage, The Samaritans, Refuge, The Matt Hampson Foundation and The Care Workers’ Charity each receiving £25,000.</p> <p>Last year, the business increased the scale and scope of its charitable giving to £4.5 million, launching six major new national charity partnerships, </p> <p>With Covid-19 substantially reducing many charities’ funding, Barratt said it had offered extra support over the past 12 months, giving St Mungo’s an extra £125,000 in emergency funding to help with homelessness, £50,000 to the Computers for Kids campaign and £150,000 to NHS Charities Together to support the NHS.</p> <p>Barratt’s ceo David Thomas, …