Our Social Commitments
Haremi's mission statement puts our positive contribution to the world of education at the heart of what we do.
Our pledges
Our people, planet and economic pledges encapsulate the ways we will make a positive impact on the environment and society, ensuring that a more sustainable future is delivered for current and future generations. As an employee-owned business, we have the freedom to innovate and invest for long-term sustainability.
We'll be a role model for equality within the learning industries, ensuring equal opportunities for people of all genders, ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds and people from other minority groups.
The high-quality educational resources we create for schools, publishers and other learning organisations will help reduce inequalities and provide opportunities for people around the world.
Closer to home, we'll develop strong links with schools in our local community, to support education provision for students of all backgrounds.
Our environmental targets will be ambitious and our commitment to minimising our environmental impact will be integrated into all aspects of our business, such as our energy choices, our workplace policies and the ways we choose to travel.
We'll promote the ways we're contributing to a greener and healthier planet.
We'll conduct business in a way that generates profits but also considers the broader economic implications for our employee-owners, customers, suppliers and local communities. Our financial decisions will be motivated by our desire to do good.
All of our employee-owners will be fairly rewarded for their contribution to our business. The UK will remain our place of corporate taxation, to fund business infrastructure, public services and help reduce the unequal distribution of wealth.
We'll work with our customers and suppliers to ensure good working conditions and fair pay throughout the supply chains we're part of.
We'll fundraise and donate to carefully chosen charities to help them achieve their missions.
Our actions
We're continually improving the socially responsible way we operate. At all levels of our business, our teams are taking meaningful actions to help us honour our commitments.
- Conducting an annual carbon footprint assessment
- Recycling all card, metal, glass, plastics and food waste at our offices
- Offering old IT equipment and office furniture for reuse
- Purchasing energy-efficient office equipment
- Eliminating printing and reducing paper usage
- Reducing vehicle emissions with a hybrid work policy and car share scheme
- Providing a Bike2Work Scheme as an employee benefit
- Committing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Stating sustainability policies and targets on our website; incorporating SDGs and their targets as appropriate
- Actively promoting and acquiring content that advocates for themes represented by the SDGs, such as equality, sustainability, justice and safeguarding and strengthening the environment
- Annually reporting on progress towards achieving SDGs, sharing data and contributing to benchmarking activities, sharing best practices and identifying gaps that still need to be addressed
- Nominating a person who will promote SDG progress, acting as a point of contact and coordinating the SDG themes throughout the organisation
- Raising awareness and promoting the SDGs among employees, to increase awareness of SDG-related policies and goals and encouraging projects that will help achieve the SDGs by 2030
- Raising awareness and promoting the SDGs among suppliers, to advocate for SDGs and to collaborate on areas that need innovative actions and solutions
- Becoming an advocate to customers and stakeholders by promoting and actively communicating about the SDG agenda through marketing, websites, promotions and projects
- Collaborating across cities, countries, and continents with other signatories and organisations to develop, localise and scale projects that will advance progress on the SDGs
- Dedicating budget and other resources towards accelerating progress for SDG-dedicated projects and promoting SDG principles
- Donating to charities that are close to our hearts or that connect with our company vision to enable a world of learning, including Action for Children; Cheltenham Foodbank; Cheltenham Guardians; Disasters Emergency Committee appeals; Goals Beyond Grass; Macmillan Cancer Support; Mind; St Peter's Hospice; Stonewall; World Vision and Young Minds
- Being an active member of the Cheltenham Business Improvement District, attracting visitors to the town, stimulating the local economy, and contributing to the vibrant community spirit of Cheltenham, and supporting public safety initiatives and townscape enhancements
- Having a second working location within Gloucestershire College
- Offering work experience placements
- Providing students with job interview practice
- Attending careers fairs and offering careers advice
