27.06.08

As corporate social responsibility becomes firmly on the agenda for organisations, it is no exception for local performance development firm, The Beech Consultancy. They enlisted the support of local Market Weighton School, St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School to help them look at the effect their organisation was having on their environment.

The school has received the prestigious ‘Eco Schools Award’ four times and on receiving the award the fourth time, they have become an Eco-School holding the award permanently. It’s such an achievement for the school and illustrates the importance of getting young pupils engaged with their environment as soon as possible.

Rebecca Limb, Marketing Manager of The Beech Consultancy commented “we wanted to get involved with the school as our organisation is all about learning and development and we thought it would be great to find out what we could lean from such a progressive, forward thinking school.”

The Beech asked the school eco committee members to undertake an eco-assessment of their business and recommend ways to neutralise their environmental impact.

 “It was fantastic! The pupils immediately got to work, looking around our business. They started to ask some very inquisitive and challenging questions around our recycling habits, our energy saving policy and our carbon footprint” Rebecca continued.

After the audit, the children made a number of recommendations to The Beech and they asked them to remember the 3 R’s - Reuse, Recycle and Reduce.

Their recommendations included car sharing wherever possible, switching off lights, PCs and printers when not in use, placing peace lilies close to computers and servers to soak up emissions, using ‘energy dream’ plugs from eon to help save energy when computers are on standby, recycling all paper and using a caddy in the kitchen to collect tea bags and waste foods.

“The pupils came up with a number of suggestions for us to start thinking about and implementing. Some of which, we hadn’t even thought about. If every local business were to make just small changes, the impact on the local community will be quite significant” said Rebecca.

“It’s fantastic to see so many young children being so committed to our environment” concluded Rebecca.

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