Corporate social responsibility
CSR at Clarke Willmott
At Clarke Willmott, we consider there to be three significant elements to acting responsibly as a business. Namely, how we act towards our people, how we treat the environment and how we impact upon and interact with our local community and the wider world.
All three strands are, of course, interrelated and overall our policies in these three areas form the core of our corporate social responsibility policy.
Our people
As a professional practice our people are at the very core of our business. It is crucial to the overall wellbeing of our business that our people are treated fairly, with respect and are given the opportunity to nurture and develop their skills. We are an equal opportunities practice and are proud of the diversity of our people.
Our environment
As well as looking after our people in the present, we recognise we have a responsibility to future generations to operate our business in a way which minimises our impact on the environment. We have worked hard to reduce our energy consumption per capita and to operate in a much “greener” and more sustainable way.
Our communities
The third strand of our CSR policy is all about our responsibility to the communities which surround our offices.
The key principle underpinning our commitment to giving something back is to support the local communities around the offices in which we work. As a firm we recognise that we and our staff are an integral part of those communities and we want to play a full and meaningful role in the life of the people who live and work around us.
Our people are actively encouraged to get involved in various community and charitable initiatives and we promote our “Community Day” whereby every person who works at Clarke Willmott is encouraged to take a day out on full pay to assist in a community or charity project.
Our activities have ranged from providing reading buddies in local schools through to painting and gardening at a community centre; from assisting young people from a disadvantaged background with interview and job seeking skills through to helping out with a team building project for children to prepare them for entering work.
We mainly work with our chosen charities, but will consider supporting other worthy causes by providing volunteers for specific projects in our communities.
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Read moreOur chosen charities
Each office selects its own local charity to support for a period of two years. These in turn become the main focus of our charitable giving.
We hold events to raise much needed funds for the charities, make donations to them from a wide variety of sponsored activities, and wherever possible our staff volunteer to do valuable work supporting the aims, objectives and service users of the charities.
The selection process
The nomination process for all our office charities is as follows:
- Office staff nominate their choice of charity
- Charities are shortlisted according to the firm’s criteria
- Office staff vote on the shortlisted charities
- The charity with the most votes become the office charity partner, usually for a period of 2 years
All offices endeavour to support a charity local to their office.
Note: Due to the pandemic, most of our offices have decided to extend their support for their current office charity, as almost a year has been lost by way of support.
Our policy
To read our policy in full please view the Clarke Willmott Corporate Social Responsibility Policy. We hope you find it informative and inspirational.
Contact us
If you want to know more about our corporate responsibility activities, or have a need for one off volunteers for a project, please complete our contact form.