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CSR at haysmacintyre
An important objective of the firm is to develop closer relationships with clients, suppliers and people, to help embed CSR into the way of life at haysmacintyre. We outline below a summary of the key achievements of our programme for the last 18 months.
Key achievements in last 18 months
Supporting our people
- Introduction of a formal appraisal process for all partners, not just staff.
- Peer Networking Programme. haysmacintyre has ten partners under the age of 40. The Peer Networking Programme aims to ease the step up from manager to partner level.
- With the promotion of two more female partners in 2009, the Firm now has a strong female presence in the partnership, 21%, compared to an average of 12% across the other top 50 accountancy firms (Source: Accountancy Age Top 50 Survey, 11 June 2008)
Distribution of wealth in the local community
- Our charity trustee programme continues to train on average 500 trustees per annum and we encourage our staff to take on charity trusteeships. Between us we assist approximately 20 charities in this capacity.
- All profits from our Annual Schools’ Conference are donated to Student Partnership Worldwide, I.P.S.E.T and Joint Educational Trust (JET)
- Donated computer equipment to schools in St Lucia.
- For the last three years we have sponsored an award for young entrepreneurs.
- As a Firm we have supported a number of charitable events such as Jeans for Genes Day.
Protection of the environment
- A paperless audit package, eAudit.
- Printing marketing literature (e.g. brochures etc) on 80% recycled paper stock using an FSC registered print company.
- Where we print promotional materials in-house we only use paper from sustainable forests.
- Recycling of all printer, fax, copier toner cartridges.
- Encouragement of staff to only print documents which are absolutely necessary and printers set up to print double sided.
- Energy efficient office lighting and the utilisation of individual air conditioning and heating devices in offices.
- A provision in place to enable staff to cycle to and from work and store their bicycles.
Relations with clients & suppliers
- We have regularly provided meeting room facilities pro bono to a variety of NFP organisations such as CFDG and ACEVO as well as to a number of our clients.