CSR Policy

Impact Creative Recruitment - Environmental & Corporate
Social Responsibility Policy 2016
Impact Creative Recruitment is the leading recruitment
agency working in the creative industries. We are a business with
social, environmental and ethical responsibilities at its core.
Headed by company MD/Joint Founder Nick Evans, along with
Impact's CSR committee (Fliss Carr, Anna Heatlie-Edwards and
Natalie Hallows), we aim to have a positive effect on society and
the environment. We encourage every employee to play a part in our
CSR commitment, which is intrinsic in building our company culture
and ensuring our values are embedded.
We are committed to the following:
- Assisting disadvantaged and young people in our local community
through our 'Foundation' with a focus on education and
skills/career development. We do this through our partnerships with
Inspire! and ReachOut
- Building stronger communities and developing our staff through
fundraising and volunteering
-
Equal opportunities and diversity
- Ensuring our approach is best practice via our active
involvement in Business in the Community and the Prince of Wales'
Responsible Business Network
Foundation
Our business position within the creative and media industries
gives us unique knowledge and expertise of careers within those
sectors. Our community programme is focused on using these skills
in order to positively impact disadvantaged young people in our
local communities. This way, we can help them reach their
potential.
In the UK, disadvantaged young people are less likely to achieve
good results at schools, and many lack the knowledge and
aspirations to enable them to be successful. However,
research shows that if companies like ours get involved at any
early stage, we can make a huge difference. There is strong
evidence that if young people have 4 or more quality encounters
with a commercial business, they are 5 times less likely to find
themselves in the 'NEET' category of not in employment, education
or training. Only 17% of state school students say they regularly
meet adults in jobs they perceive as interesting.
With this in mind, we use our position and skillset to
benefit our local community. We partner with Inspire! and
ReachOut, both independent charities based in the Hackney area, who
focus on the education, training and development of young and
disadvantaged people by forming mutually beneficial partnerships
between businesses, schools and individuals. Our contribution
comes from imparting our knowledge and expertise to students
organised by Inspire!, covering the Hackney, Westminster and Camden
area. This includes attending schools, providing in-classroom
volunteering and one to one guidance on subjects such as:
- Completing application forms
- Career talks
- CV advice
- Talks and advice from Impact and clients to young
people
Partnering organisation - BITC
Business in the Community brings companies who are committed to
good business practice together to tackle a wide range of issues
which are essential to building a fairer society and a more
sustainable future. BITC are assisting us to shape our CSR
policy, demonstrating that our commitment to good business will
contribute to our employees' well-being and career success.
They also enable Impact to adopt practical ways to work together to
take action to help tackle some of the key issues facing society
and, as a media recruitment agency, we will be working with BITC to
focus on employment, enterprise, education and environment-related
issues.
Caring for Our Staff
Our commitment to a fairer society starts with our staff and our
HR policy is to attract, recruit and retain engaged and talented
individuals to help us drive the business forward. Each
employee is highly valued, and we ensure that they work in the best
environment, with access to training, development and growth
opportunities.
We recognise the importance of diversity in the workplace
for you and our client businesses, and encourage a diverse
candidate base along with non-discriminatory selection
processes. We are a firm believer in equal opportunities and
diversity; our employees come from a cross section of society and
currently 76% of our employees are female.
We aim for our CSR work to enhance the development of various
skills and behaviours for our employees including communication,
confidence, relationship building, team building and
creativity.
Employee Involvement and Fundraising
Impact has developed a 'Community Programme' to benefit
charities and community groups, as well as promoting a sense of
achievement and positive team building. All prospective
employees are advised of our ethics and policies at interview stage
and we encourage all staff to get involved in our CSR
commitments. As part of their development, employees pledge a
minimum of 2 days per year to our programme.
Charity Commitment
We are committed to supporting 1 chosen charity per year and
holding 1 charity event per quarter, organised in advance every 6
months. For 2016, we have selected locally-based charity
ReachOut. To help support this charity, we will hold events
to raise funds (i.e. social activities, runs, bakes sales, quizzes
etc.) for this extraordinary business, as well as take part in
organisation-led activities such as one to one and group mentoring
of students. More detail can be found on the Foundation
section.
Environmental awareness
Impact does not operate in a business sector which causes
significant pollution, however we recognise that our business has
an impact on the environment.
Each employee takes responsibility for, and is committed to
minimising this impact, by:
- Optimising the way we use energy - we have lights which
automatically switch off using censors, switch off any electrical
equipment, are efficient in use of water and reduce use of plastic
by having an energy efficient water filtration system
- Encouraging staff to only use products which are reusable and
recyclable
- Separating all waste and sending to a specialist company for
recycling - paper, food, stationery, IT and general waste
- Using local suppliers where possible
- Encouraging employees to lower their carbon footprint by:
- Utilising our cycle to work scheme
- Encouraging employees to walk to work once a month
Impact Creative Recruitment Ltd is committed to continually
bettering itself and parterning with the local community, creating
a collaborative and development-led work environment and dedicating
time to charity are all high on the agenda. We believe these
commitments improve business as a whole and we will be providing a
CR Report annually to capture the impact of our work and drive
continuous improvement.
For further details, please feel free to get in touch with the
CSR committee.