Being a responsible business with ethical practices is paramount to our ethos, and ultimately our success. We are at heart a local business, rooted in communities, people, and their skills. To help create fairer opportunities in our regions, we hold ourselves, and the organisations we work closely with, up to the highest possible standards in how we recruit, support, and reward our employees.
This helps to ensure that we are fair and honourable employers, paying the real living wage; with equality, diversity and inclusion thoroughly embedded into our organisations. We are committed to making opportunities fairer for people who are disadvantaged by their location, background, economic situation, current skill set or employment history, to create a more diverse workforce that represents the communities we serve. The transition to a greener economy will require new skills across a wide range of disciplines and it’s a real chance for people of all ages to have fulfilling, well-paid careers. We aim to make these job opportunities visible, accessible, inspiring, and achievable to the broadest range of people. This includes working with the most disadvantaged and socially immobile communities in our networks, to proactively help them gain meaningful employment in the energy sector.
We Are Contributing Towards
We have five employee communities that help us to identify and address challenges facing employees from disadvantaged and underrepresented groups. Each community has an established committee, sponsored by a member of the executive leadership team. The role of the communities is to support effective change across the organisation, including:
Creating a network of colleagues from across our business, who are all committed to creating equality and supporting women’s professional and personal development.
Creating a network of colleagues from across our business, who are all committed to creating equality and supporting women’s professional and personal development.
Creating a network of colleagues from across our business, who are all committed to creating equality and supporting women’s professional and personal development.
Creating a network of colleagues from across our business, who are all committed to creating equality and supporting women’s professional and personal development.
Creating a network of colleagues from across our business, who are all committed to creating equality and supporting women’s professional and personal development.
In January 2022 we partnered with Emmaus UK, an adult homelessness charity and social enterprise. The charity supports individuals experiencing homelessness by providing wellbeing support, meaningful work experience and training, and a home for as long as someone may need it. Through partnering with Emmaus UK, we are building on the close alignment with our purpose, values and social impact ambitions to provide more people with warm homes, accelerated access to careers in the energy sector and sustainable futures.
We aim to raise over £400,000 for Emmaus UK and we will encourage employees to champion the partnership by enhancing their knowledge of homelessness and providing vital support through fundraising, volunteering, and sharing expertise on energy efficiency, employability skills and tackling climate change.
To ensure volunteering is available and accessible to all, we have partnered with award-winning community support expert organisation, Neighbourly, to create an online and interactive volunteering platform which offers a focussed range of inclusive opportunities across all of our networks. We aim to have donated at least 3,000 volunteering days by 2026.
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