Office Initatives

Board Level Representation

CSR is an important subject which is taken seriously by the company from Board level down. We recognise that it is vital for all staff members to buy in to board led initiatives and therefore have an internal committee who are instrumental in driving our CSR policy forward.

Local Initiatives

We recognise the challenges we face in minimising our office based carbon emissions, and how to reduce these as best we can. We work with the Carbon Consultancy to conduct an annual waste audit to recognise what changes we can make in the office to reduce our impact on the environment, including:

• Monitoring waste to identify its quantity and type, and its environmental effects
• Looking at opportunities to reduce, recycle or re-use the waste
• Setting targets for reducing waste

We have worked with the Carbon Consultancy for the past three years and have steadily managed to decrease our office based carbon footprint, confirming we are one of the lowest carbon emitting agencies in our sector. We will continue to work with the company in the future to significantly reduce our carbon emissions. If you would like to see the credentials of this company, please go to www.thecarbonconsultancy.co.uk

Having reduced our emissions to a minimum, WorldEvents™ purchase Carbon Units from the Carbon Consultancy to offset our Carbon Footprint. The Carbon Consultancy will use these funds to plant trees and further their education programme with primary school children.

Staff Education

We are educating our staff members to ensure that no energy is wasted by ensuring that all lights, desktop computers and electrical appliances are switched completely off when not in use. We are also currently looking into the possibility of replacing our existing lighting system with energy saving light bulbs, and have installed light sensors for the toilets, to prevent the needless waste of electricity.

Office Processes

We now have numerous recycling bins located throughout the offices. There are four paper / cardboard bins located next to each of the major printers to encourage all waste printing paper is recycled. We also have an aluminium/tin and plastics bin in each of the office kitchens – used for any clean material that has the recycled symbol on – and we have contracted with a regulated waste management company to pick up our recycling on a weekly basis.

As well as recycling our own waste products, we are also use recycled headed paper, computer paper, compliment slips and business cards.