SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DEBATE IN ASSOCIATION WITH:


Richard Slater


Lancashire Business View (Chair)


Sharon Plunkett Rush Hey Consultancy


Purves Ali Boost Lancashire


Stuart Rogan HML Recycling


PRESENT: Debbie Chinn


Growth Lancashire


Rizwan Seth Wrkspace


Heath Groves Sundown Solutions


Tim Mitchell


Community Foundation for Lancashire


Councillor Valerie Wise Preston City Council


PUTTING THE ‘S’ INTO ESG


We brought our expert panel together at the Old Docks House by Wrkspace, Preston, with Boost; Lancashire’s Business Growth Hub to discuss the increasingly important role of social responsibility and how companies are responding to the growing demands of the ESG agenda


Heath Groves – Sundown Solutions


The S for me is to actively impact the communities in which we live and work.


It is a commitment to generate wealth within that area, to generate decent salaries and create income and wealth that impacts families and the local community. Yes, it


is about charitable giving and so on, but there are so many layers and the base layer is economic wealth generation and that is what should be measured.


We do fundraisers and charity giving but we get our hands dirty and all our employees are given between two and six days a year off, which they are demanded to spend on charitable causes or any form of NED commission: board type positions such as school governors, or on local community trusts.


From that we get the real mood music of what is actually happening. You start to understand


where people are hurting and you understand why it’s important that 54 jobs stay in Lancashire and that’s our big piece.


When it comes to measuring the impact of what we do our mainstay is to become a ‘lighthouse brand’ in the area, a brand that everybody wants to be working with, everybody wants to be associated with. We have a high moral standard. We have a high ethical code. When we release job advertisements, we look at the demographics of where we are hiring from.


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