Walking With The Wounded is a value-driven charity which, as part of this philosophy, is working towards reducing our impact on the environment through our Green Agenda initiative. Our goal is to promote sustainability and environmental awareness at all levels of the business, and we intend to do this by:
a) Educating our colleagues and
encouraging them to make environmentally-friendly changes within their personal
and professional lives
b) Conducting an internal audit
to help shape our environmental objectives as a charity
c) Where possible, ensuring that businesses within our supply chain share our environmental beliefs
We understand that this is a journey, but many small
steps can lead to great change when taken together.
Since beginning our initiative in 2021, we have:
1) Appointed “Environmental Champions” within our workforce, to take charge of
the Green Initiative and be a point of contact for both internal and external
parties
2) Incorporated ‘personal green goals’ within our yearly Personal Development
Plans for staff to be encouraged to make ethical changes
3) Shared articles every 6 weeks around different topics, such as single-use
plastics and meat consumption, to all staff to provide them with the knowledge
and tools to assist them in their personal changes
4) Completed a ‘green audit’, with support from musicMagpie and the Growth
Company, in our Manchester Hub resulting in recommendations for making greener
choices, which we will now work towards
In 2022, we intend to:
1) Continue to have 6-8 weekly meetings with both Environmental Champions, HR,
and the CEO, to discuss progress
2) Roll out our own ‘green audit’ to our other hubs and Head Office
3) Begin to implement changes in our Manchester Office, as outlined in the
Growth Company audit, by the end of Q1
4) Continue to educate and encourage staff to be more aware of environmental
issues and implement change, both in their personal lives and at work
5) Calculate WWTW’s carbon footprint