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Small Company of the Year, All big ticks

Logistik

Logistik, a design and communications agency, has integrated corporate social responsibility into the core of its business. From reducing waste, pollution and carbon emissions to looking after the workforce and local community, Logistik has succeeded in delivering benefits for both business and society.

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The Story

Logistik offers clients a range of services including event management, internal communications, digital and media, design and build and interior refurbishment.

The company has made ‘A Sustainable Approach’ a fourth pillar of the business alongside ‘Trusted Advisor’, ‘Creativity at the Heart’ and ‘An Aura of Excellence’ to help stakeholders, particularly employees, engage and understand what the business want to achieve.

Sustainability has always been integral to the business and Logistik has incorporated sustainability into the framework of the organisation. The Managing Director initiated the work and together with one of the Directors developed annual strategies. A sustainability team is employed to work with the rest of the company to optimise results and individuals have sustainability worked into their appraisals with personal goals agreed with line managers.

Through this management structure Logistik has succeeded in gaining the support of employees and external stakeholders which has enabled the business to drive its sustainability agenda forward. Below you can find some of the impacts the approach taken by Logistik has made to the business and to society and the environment.

Impact

Business Impact

Investing in video conferencing facilities in the Leeds and London offices Logistik were able to reduce Head Office train and taxi travel by £18,000 last year.
The company ran a series of events training clients, contacts and suppliers on sustainable event management. Some have been in partnership with Leeds Metropolitan University and Arup, the largest of which (a conference at the Royal Armouries in Leeds) made £6,500 in ticket sales.
Logistik has sponsored the Northern Art Prize from its creation in 2007. Over four years this has been an investment of £160,000 for which Logistik has seen a return of £841,000 of work generated, £154,000 of which is profit.
Event Magazine (www.eventmagazine.co.uk) approached Logistik’s MD to provide a monthly thought leadership Blog based on Sustainability. This is called ‘The New Industrial Revolution’ and has had 9 posts so far.

Social

Working with the Northern Art Prize, Logistik developed a community outreach programme UpstART an initiative for 16-18 year olds which aims to inspire and engage young people into a future career into contemporary visual art through a series of workshops and coaching sessions.
Three members of staff give up 10 hours each quarter to prepare and deliver a group mentoring session designed to raise aspirations and engage the ten 12-13 year old girls on career options.
As part of a healthy workplace campaign fruit is provided to all offices twice a week. Staff are also encouraged to take part in the Leeds 10K Run, even arranging training sessions with a triathlete.

Environmental Impact

Logistik created an online tool for events to increase sustainability which has been used on three client conferences.
At the start of 2010, employees were asked to measure their personal carbon footprint. Employees were then asked to re-measure their carbon footprint in August 2010. The average reduction in personal carbon footprint was 16.7%.
BS 8901 and ISO 14001 accredited. The BS 8901 is the British Standard which has been developed specifically for the events industry with a purpose of helping the industry to operate in a more sustainable manner.

Santander, Small Company of the Year Sponsor

Logistik employees enjoying a day out volunteering

Map of Logistik's CR activities

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