Publications

Useful publications to help you integrate responsible business practice, sometimes referred to as corporate social responsibility (CSR), into the heart of your company. 

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  • Local sourcing - distribution advice for regional food and drink producers cover

    Local sourcing - distribution advice for regional food and drink producers

    This guide is to help producers find solutions to the often complex challenges posed by distribution. The guide provides several examples of interesting initiatives throughout the UK, which show what can be achieved with insight, careful business planning and partnership working.


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  • How to set up a school governors programme cover

    How to set up a school governors programme

    Encouraging and enabling your employees to become school governors can have a marked effect on the performance of a school, your busness and individuals involved.

    Date:
    September 2007

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  • Putting down roots in market towns cover

    Putting down roots in market towns

    Integrating your business into the local market town economy can be good for business and good for the town.


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    How to develop an education programme

    This guide has been developed to help businesses in the North West to deliver high quality education programmes. It is part of a wider campaign developed in conjunction with The Prince's Seeing is Believing Alumni North West Board.

    Date:
    September 2006

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  • Local sourcing - opening the door for small business cover

    Local sourcing - opening the door for small business

    This guide seeks to help local suppliers understand the process of having products listed with supermarkets, convenience retailers and food service companies. Working with major food retailers and food service companies may not be for everyone, but rewards can be significant even if the learning process is steep.

    Date:
    January 2003

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  • What's in it for you - why businesses should invest in their local community cover

    What's in it for you - why businesses should invest in their local community

    Corporate responsibility is a high profile management subject, but many business leaders aren’t sure where to begin or how to ensure that a community involvement programme won’t detract from the main focus of their business.


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    Corporate foundations - building a sustainable foundation for corporate giving

    This Business in the Community report explains why and how companies set up foundations. It highlights the advantages, disadvantages and the top tips that companies have shared with us. It also looks at the wider context of corporate giving and the part that corporate foundations play.

    Date:
    August 2003

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    Work-Life Balance

    The Work-Life Balance campaign aims to encourage employers to consider the business benefits of encouraging and supporting their employees to achieve and maintain a better balance between work and home.

    Date:
    December 2000

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  • The pub is the hub - a good practice guide cover

    The pub is the hub - a good practice guide

    The highly successful Pub is the Hub scheme was set up in 2001 by Business in the Community's 'The Prince's Rural Action Programme'. The aim was and still is to encourage breweries, managers, landlords and local communities to use their entrepreneurial skills, together with resources available to them, to help to retain and enhance vital rural services, bolster the rural economy and at the same time benefit the local community.

    Date:
    December 2001

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  • Saving your local pub - a guide for local communities cover

    Saving your local pub - a guide for local communities

    The role of the British rural pub as a centre of its community has never been more important and it is vital that communties take more involvement.

    Date:
    January 2004

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