Corporate Social Responsibility

Background

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is about how businesses align their values and behaviour with environmental and social principles and the expectations and needs of stakeholders including regulators, customers, the local community, investors and employees.

A CSR policy sets out a company’s commitment to be accountable to all its stakeholders and clearly demonstrates that the company is prepared to ‘go beyond’ what is required in a regulatory sense.

CSR provides a tool to identify risks and opportunities to an organisation, in terms of its potential impacts on the environment and society.

CSR will also bring a competitive market advantage. 

Through an effective CSR policy, companies can:

• Improve access to capital;
• Improve decision making;
• Enhance brand awareness amongst stakeholder groups;
• Set a good example;
• Identify previously hidden commercial opportunities;
• Reduce costs; and
• Attract, retain and motivate employees.

Services Offered

Temple has a successful track record in the development and delivery of CSR strategies for a range of clients.  We work closely with our clients, considering the challenges and opportunities facing them and how they can best contribute to social and environmental objectives. 

Temple can:

• Identify how CSR can benefit your business;
• Ensure compliance with the Company’s Act 2006 and the Pensions Amendment Act, where appropriate;
• Develop a CSR Policy and Strategy for your business;
• Work with you in helping you to define CSR goals and objectives;
• Coordinate CSR activities and develop CSR communication strategies;
• Evaluate your CSR initiatives; and
• Monitor performance.
  

Contacts

If you would like to discuss the CSR service or any of the other services which Temple can provide, please contact Donal Fitzgibbon at 020 7394 3700, or donal.fitzgibbon@templegroup.co.uk