At Inventures, we take corporate social responsibility to mean a 360° challenge to consider the full impact of our actions – to the environment, the community around us, and to all the people we come into contact with. By recognising the affect that our business has we are able to manage our responsibilities.

We support our clients in delivering top-quality sustainable solutions and are committed to modelling our business around Government led healthcare initiatives.

Sustaining Our Future

As part of Inventures' robust environmental management system, we are fully committed to:

• Compliance with all relevant environmental legislation
• Maintaining effective environmental management, adopting best practice where possible, and striving to continually improve Inventures Ltd environmental performance
• Educating, training and motivating employees to understand and undertake their role in preventing, controlling and reducing environmental impact
• Considering environmental and safety implications before implementation
• Considering environmental costs in resourcing, purchasing, transport and distribution decisions
• Promoting awareness of environmental issues, both internally and externally

We are certified as meeting ISO 140001 standards, for more information please click here to view their webpage.

In the Community

We are active in the community to ensure that we give something back to the communities around us. This can take the form of raising money for national charities, supporting local organisations or promoting good business practices. We have had involvement with a number of community projects and events, some of which are listed below:

• Supporting Enterprise: Industry Mentors (pdf)
• Keeping the Band Marching
• Talent Spotting
• Human Table Football
• Best Foot Forward
• New Fund Sets Sail

If you are involved in an event or project which you think Inventures could become involved in, please click here to contact Jessica Sheppard, Marketing Manager.

Adding Value to Clients

We recognize that CSR is an important subject for our clients, particularly since the Government put carbon emissions at the top of the agenda by setting tough sustainability targets in Securing the Future. We are dedicated to incorporating its concerns into our innovative solutions.

To aid the assessment process, we are currently training some of our consultants in order to achieve BREEAM accreditation.

We are dedicated to collaborative working practices, ensuring that all our relationships build positive partnerships. We conduct client surveys and aim to achieve 100% client satisfaction. In 2008, 92% of our clients said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the service we provide, with 94% of clients stating that they would both recommend us to someone else and use us again.

Supporting our People

Inventures is focussed upon getting the best out of its people. This is achieved by encouraging staff to have a good work-life balance and ensuring we give everyone the opportunity to develop and grow. As testament to this, we have been awarded 1 star status by Best Copmapnies, a Sunday Times sponsored organisation and we were named as one of the top consultant companies in the industry by Building Magazine's Building Good Employers Guide.

We promote our staff leading healthy lifestyles: we provide all staff with private health insurance, fruit and filtered water is available in every office and, in line with our environmental policy, we have a cycle to work scheme.