Environment

The Group recognises its responsibilities to conserve resources and is committed to continuous improvement in the environmental impact of its operations. The Group has an environmental policy that is designed to reduce wastage by raising employee awareness, encouraging participation and continual improvement through education and training in environmental matters. This commitment is also demonstrated by ensuring our environmental standards are reflected in our policy towards contractors and suppliers.

Many of the Group’s business practices tend to support environmental good practice, such as minimising energy and water consumption, reducing paper wastage through reuse and recycling, using paper from sustainable forests, reducing business travel by replacing face to face meetings with conference calls or video-conferencing, using electricity generated from renewable sources, encouraging staff to switch off electronic appliances and to travel to work by foot, bike or public transport. Where possible, we use bikes instead of cars or motorbikes for couriers. Our current cab company use hybrid cars for reduced emissions.

To take a few examples:

1. By recycling Corporate Head Office saved the equivalent of 74 trees and 8.1 tonnes of CO₂ and Citigate Dewe Rogerson in London saved the equivalent of 304 trees and 30 tonnes of CO₂.
2. Huntsworth Health in the UK worked with Cyclescheme with approximately 15% of its workforce taking part. In addition, Huntsworth Health introduced recycling for plastics, cans, paper and cardboard and continues to review their recycling policy in order to reduce levels of waste.
3. Grayling London launched its Guide to Carbon-Efficient PR Campaigns for staff and clients and began work towards the first three phases of the IEMA’s Acorn Scheme.
4. In the US, Grayling Connecting Point’s Cambridge office became a certified green business, and the company received recognition for its environmentally friendly practices. Awards included the City of Cambridge’s GoGreen Award in Transportation and the Stevie’s Award in Environmental Stewardship for overall efforts to reduce waste and energy use. Recycle and increase employee awareness programmes.
5. In Europe, Grayling Belgium encourages home-work travel efficiency and savings on carbon dioxide emissions by recommending staff to work from home in the event of heavy traffic in Brussels.

Environmental performance will continue to be monitored and improvements made wherever possible.

Community

The Group recognises its responsibility towards the communities in which its businesses operated. In support of our communities, a number of Group businesses in the UK, the US and Europe organise fundraising and volunteering activities for staff to raise money for charity as well as offering pro bono support to non-profit clients.

Huntsworth's Code of Ethics Policy