Awards for Excellence 2010 - All Results
Big Ticks are awarded to companies whose programmes have demonstrated the positive impact of responsible business. This year, 94 entries have been awarded a Big Tick, these are listed below.
In each category the best Big Ticks are put forward for consideration for the title of Example of Excellence – the overall winner for the category.
Outstanding programmes which fall just short of the Example of Excellence standard are chosen as the Highly Commended Awards.
Examples of Excellence 2010 were announced on 5 July.
Company of the Year
in association with Tomorrow's Company
Unilever’s vision is to double the size of the company while reducing their overall impact on the environment, integrating sustainability into its brand innovation, product development and customer experience.
Finalists:
KPMG’s long standing commitment to corporate responsibility is embedded across the organisation. As sector leaders they have successfully tackled challenging issues like the Living Wage campaign and others follow their lead. National Grid are challenging themselves to deliver on the promise of ‘Keeping the lights on’ in the most sustainable way possible. It is an ambitious commitment, and the early results are very exciting, this is a company to keep an eye on in the future. Northumbrian Water goes well beyond expectations in terms of supporting their local community. Sustainability is at the heart of everything they do and leading by example they show others how to link sustainability and community engagement.
Big Ticks
Small Company of the Year Award
in association with the Institute of Directors
The Herdy Company is a thriving brand with a sustainable heart. Their giftware range is ethically sourced in the UK, and has created a market for Herdwick wool, whilst channelling a percentage of profits back to their local community.
LSI Architects has sustainable design principles at the centre of their work, demonstrating a long standing and exception commitment to corporate responsibility through their Open Environment programme.
Finalists:
8build's ‘Lean Construction’ approach is innovative with responsibility at its core, which has enabled them to maintain their market share in the face of 50% decrease in the London construction market. GreenTomatoCars London’s largest environmentally friendly private hire taxi service has revolutionised the market and despite the pervasive recession has garnered high sales and fleet growth.
Education Award
The Midcounties Co-operative's partnership with Sutherland School in Staffordshire has enabled them to become one of the most improved schools in the area giving almost 500 hours of support as mentors, governors and on key projects.
Linklaters Linking Work With Learning (LWWL) programme was developed as a strategic response to a borough-wide need for raising aspirations and is raising the social mobility and aspirations of young people in Hackney.
Finalists:
Esh Group's ‘Grow with Esh’ programme is aimed at helping young people to develop gardening and horticultural projects in or near their school grounds in 2009 alone over 5,000 young people took part. RWE npower Climate Cops educates young people about the positive difference they can make to the environment by showing them how to take action at home. Over 28,000 students have benefited from Climate Cops Academy events.
Big Ticks
Building Stronger Communities
Example of Excellence: EDF Energy
EDF Energy's partnership with British Red Cross has provided support to nearly 100,000 vulnerable customers during power cuts in two years and enabled Red Cross volunteers to put skills and expertise into action
BT Community Connections award scheme channels its support through existing grassroots organisations already active in communities the scheme has provided equipment and broadband to 7,000 groups and over six million people.
RWE npower's Health Through Warmth programme has reached 45,000 vulnerable people with cold related illnesses, while also training 17,848 community workers to identify households at risk.
Finalists:
British Gas' Giving Back programme works through charity partners to tackle fuel poverty and support vulnerable groups, providing support to 2.2 million customers through Here to Help, Debt Support and Essentials tariff programmes Ringway Group has developed a partnership to help Calthorpe community enterprise in King’s Cross become a self-supporting social enterprise with 100% of employees involved report that their perception of their company had improved. Rolls-Royce trainees works on a community or education project as part of their professional development, delivering 10-12 bespoke projects each year and providing 5,000 hours of professional services a year.
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The Asda Environmental Leadership Award
Kingfisher plc helps consumers make their homes more sustainable at a lower cost through its Future Homes programme which developed over 4,000 eco-products and trained over 1,800 B&Q employees to offer advice to customer’s in-store.
Finalist:
Veolia Water UK educates customers on the benefits of water conservation, offering free cistern displacement devices, do it yourself water audits and a free repair of their supply pipes, leading to estimated savings last year of 197million litres of water.
Big Ticks
Hallmark Cards KPMG LLP (UK) Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK Unilever UK Ltd
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Climate Change Award
in association with the Mayday Journey
InterfaceFLOR's Mission Zero has fundamentally changed its business model reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 34% and diverted 133million kilogrammes of material from landfill.
Rabbie's Trail Burners trains all its drivers in fuel-efficient techniques and re-mapping vehicle engines, making significant cost and carbon reductions as well as enabling its customers to reduce their carbon footprint.
Finalists:
Land Securities is working with its clients to improve the efficiency of their buildings, resulting in significantly reduced clients’ energy bills whilst making significant carbon reductions. United Biscuits environmental programme delivers substantial benefits and has reduced its overall carbon footprint of factories and logistics by 5.8%, despite an increase in production tonnage of 3%.
Big Ticks:
Anglo American Responsible Supply Chain Award
Example of Excellence: Lend Lease
Lend Lease is working towards the design and construction of zero carbon developments and materials and has developed an industry-wide sustainability standard for suppliers ‘BuildingConfidence’, to which over 730 are now signed up.
Highly Commended: Cadbury
Cadbury's Cocoa Partnership was established in 2008 to invest £45million over ten years, improving the livelihoods of farmers and securing a more sustainable supply and created £1.9 million of PR value.
Finalists:
Marks & Spencer's Sustainability Framework and Ethical Model Factories has worked in partnership with factories to improve process efficiency as a means to increase wages, reduce working hours and protect the quality of products. Sainsbury's have worked closely with the Marine Conservation Society to develop a programme to ensure all its fish is responsibly sourced and reduced the likelihood that worldwide fisheries will collapse by 2048.
Sustainable Marketing & Innovation
in association with the Marketing Society
Marshalls have created and applied rigorous carbon footprinting to its products and reformulated the worst-performing, leading to carbon reductions of up to 39%, thereby empowering customers to tackle their carbon footprint.
United Biscuits McVitie’s reformulated their biscuits to address health and nutrition issues, resulting in significant reduction in salt and saturated fat, 40% reduction in palm oil use, and 9% increase in sales of HobNobs and Digestives.
Finalists:
Royal Mail is incentivising more environmentally friendly direct mail by offering lower prices and supporting a single industry standard with a key environmental target at its heart to ensure that 55 percent of direct mail will be recycled Severn Trent's Grease Lightening reduces sewer flooding caused by fats, oils and grease, cutting blockages and reducing chances of flooding. Around 8,000 potential sewer blockages have been prevented in the pilot area reducing potential costs
Big Ticks:
Healthy Workplace Award
supported by Health Work Wellbeing
Northern Foods has been running its Fit4life campaign since January 2008 to increase productivity, enhance retention rates and reduce levels of absence with great results including a 15% reduction in sick pay costs.
Unilever's Fit Business pilot reached 2,000 employees and addressed health issues by integrating with national public health campaigns. It reduced absenteeism and increased fitness and is now being rolled out in every UK & Ireland site.
Big Ticks:
Skills in the Workplace Award
supported by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, and in association with Asset Skills
Norse Commercial Services' Learning and Development Workplace Skills programme has delivered training to over 3,500 employees, helping to securing new contracts worth in excess of £18m.
EDF Energy has turned around its performance by successfully creating a culture of learning and excellence, saving £100m and is independently recognised as global best practice within the nuclear industry.
Finalist:
McDonald's Skills for Life Programme breaks down barriers to education and encourages lifelong learning. It has changed the lives of the 6,000 employees in the programme and resulted in staff turnover decreasing by 20% since 2007
Big Ticks:
Laing O’Rourke plc Marshalls plc (Brookfoot Site) McDonald’s Restaurants UK* Norse Commercial Services* MITIE Group Whitbread plc
Northern Foods Rural Action Award
United Utilities' Sustainable Catchment Management Programme (SCaMP) was the first initiative to restore and enhance water catchment and introduce more sustainable land management practices in upland farming areas.
Highly Commended: Booths
Booths is committed to offering its customers locally sourced food. The National Trust Beef into Booths initiative provides customers with a unique product while also delivering a guaranteed premium to farmers, irrespective of the market.
Big Ticks:
Müller Dairy UK (Ltd) The Cooperative Group
The Coffey International Award
supported by the Department for International Development
Barclays’ partnership with The Guardian and NGO AMREF has increased access to clean water from 42% of people in 2007 to 66% and given voice to a community trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty.
Pachacuti has increased the price paid to the women’s co-operatives producers in Ecuador by 70% and is the first company in the world to be certified by the World Fair Trade Organization.
Thomson Reuters Reuters Market Light (RML) offers personalised professional information service to the Indian farming community via mobile phones helping them reduce their production and marketing risks thereby directly enhancing their livelihood.
Finalists:
CEMEX’s Patrimonio Hoy programme allows low-income families to obtain access to services and building materials through a savings and credit scheme across 5 countries in South America. Cisco’s Networking Academy is a transformative public-private education programme that has equipped 3.25 million students across 165 countries with ICT skills so they may access jobs in the internet economy. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have aligned part of their pro bono programme to the Millennium Development Goals, providing legal advice and innovative skills to global NGOs. Tata Consultancy Services mKRISHI mobile phone service in India enables farmers to access experts, helps increase crop yields, creating opportunity for micro businesses; reducing poverty for those at the ‘bottom of the pyramid’.
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