As a family business we want our activities to reflect our values and encourage others to act with hope and positivity. We have plans to act on twelve of the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Good Health & Wellbeing
Providing accessible counselling and coaching services through keeping costs down while also supporting the endeavours of others.
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Gender Equality
We endeavour to ensure we are equitable to all those we employ, work for, work with and support. Going beyond the issues of equal pay to look for and support the needs of the individual in the context of societal bias.
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Affordable Clean Energy
As a co-author of the book Design to Value; we demonstrate that we look at the big picture in all the work we do. Businesses need to make money; however they also need to deliver accessibility of provision to all of the global society.
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Decent work and Economic Growth
Balancing economic growth, ethically based employment and development opportunities is part of the constant quest for multi-dimensional value.
Economies are there to support the whole of society.
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Industry innovation and infrastructure
We work with companies who have a clear mission to innovate the delivery of infrastructure which will directly benefit the planet and society. We work in collaboration with Bryden Wood. Our director John Dyson is professor of Human Enterprise at University of Birmingham and leads a Masters in Industrial Project Management.
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Sustainable cities and communities
Supporting projects /organisations which have real sustainable impacts. This includes forming collaborative relationships with other local organisations.
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Responsible consumption and production
We are all vegetarian, we are careful about where our food comes from, supporting sustainable farming and avoiding supply chains which are still damaging the eco-system like Palm Oil.
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Climate action
We have significantly reduced our own carbon footprint through diet, energy efficiency and sourcing renewable electricity. We have significantly limited our flying. We encourage our employees to support environmental charities which challenge carbon based energy and business.
We work with both academia and industry to support the industrialisation of renewable energy and circular supply chains.
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Life below water
We support the activities of Greenpeace encouraging our employees to direct give to the organisation. We are strong advocates of the 30% ocean area being protected by 2030 (30x30).
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Life on Land
We are planning to corporately support the work of the
World Land Trust. We use this organisation to offset any company travel carbon footprint; although avoiding travel and selecting the lowest carbon options is our preferred approach.
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Peace, justice and strong institutions
In counselling and coaching we work within the BACP Ethical framework. We provide our personal services at lower rates for those on low earnings, these are set at a level of no-profit. We encourager employee to support Greenpeace and Amnesty International through our salary scheme.
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Partnerships for goals
Qur business philosophy is that true collaboration is hugely powerful and beneficial to both individuals and the families, enterprises and businesses they support.
We have significantly reduced our own carbon footprint through diet, energy efficiency and sourcing renewable electricity. We have significantly limited our flying. We encourage our employees to support environmental charities which challenge carbon based energy and business.
Carbon Footprint
In the last 12 months out footprint 15.4 tonne CO2. This will be offset via the World Land Trust
We have plans and policies which will minimise our footprint; flying constitutes 86% and will be avoided where possible.
We have plans to reduce non-flying footprint by 50% in 2024
Ecosystem Conservation
Food as much as practicable is vegan /vegetarian /organic/fair-trade; avoiding unsustainable products e.g. Palm Oil
We are working to form partnerships with the World Land Trust and Berkshire Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
We look to reduce our consumption of materials, look to repair, reuse and recycle.
Our Commitment
Each year we will agree actions that benefit the planet and society while keeping the business viable. We will donate at least 10% of profits to partner organisations supporting positive change.
We will support employee wellbeing and contribute to organisations aligned with our sustainability goals. We will avoid work that conflicts with these goals,
Carrying out checks to ensure our efforts are genuine and value-aligned, and we will monitor and report our progress annually.
