Corporate Responsibilty
Payroll Giving Quality Mark
Awards - Gold Awards 2006
Tim Wray at the Johannesburg Toy Library,
which Turner & Townsend helped to establish
(children are the focus of Turner & Townsend's
CSR programme this year).
Turner & Townsend's
Dragonboat racing team at the UK 2007 Corporate
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Getting the balance right
Turner & Townsend
has always subscribed to the ethical tradition that success
in business brings with it
a wide range of responsibilities - to the community, to
staff, to clients and suppliers, and to the environment.
For 60 years we have built a business that has taken those
responsibilities as seriously as we take any other aspect
of our business development.
Today Corporate Responsibility is an integral part of
our business management system, driven by a dedicated committee
led by our Chairman, Tim Wray.
Under the Chairman’s leadership, Turner & Townsend
is finding new ways to create a successful balance between
these key areas of business integrity and the central economic
imperative of business development. For the global business
community as a whole, this is one of the key challenges
of the immediate future, and both as a company and as a
consultancy, we are committed to finding the best ways
of meeting the challenge, and turning it into an opportunity.
Giving Back to Our Communities
Turner & Townsend
has always sought to make a real difference to the communities
around us. Over many years
we have developed a wide-ranging programme of professional,
charitable and community support, and today we offer our
people every opportunity and encouragement both to take
part in our corporate initiatives and to support their
own causes.
Our focus as a company this year is on children, with
our continuing sponsorship of the Toy Library movement
in South Africa now providing hundreds of AIDS-affected
children with access to a safe and supportive playing and
learning environment.
But Turner & Townsend people all over the world will
be involved in literally hundreds of community projects
and charity events - like the four members of UK staff
who raised a staggering £10,000 for a range of charities
by completing this year’s London Marathon; or the
dozens of Houston office staff and their families who collected
and distributed food for the homeless in their own city;
or the members of our Cairns office in Australia who took
part in the Million Paws Walk for the RSPCA....
We offer our staff the opportunity to Give As You Earn,
and we are proud to have won a Gold Award under the Payroll
Giving Quality Mark scheme in 2006.
Respecting People
Life is more than work, and we encourage our people to
balance work with family and social life, so that the company
provides a supportive framework for both professional and
personal development.
We are committed to the recruitment and development of
people in the countries and regions in which we work, and
we operate under the terms of a Health & Safety policy
that clearly defines our responsibilities for all our people,
all over the world.
Promoting Sustainability
Environmental sustainability is perhaps the most important
and universal challenge of our age.
As a company, we are taking every possible step to minimise
and continuously reduce the impact our growing business
makes on the environment.
As a consultancy, we are leading the way in the development
of services and expertise that will help our clients to
do the same.
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