It's never been a "bandwagon" thing with us. It's been a consistent improvement in our approach to being an environmentally friendly business over the years. In our experience it's the little things that make a difference, such as:

• using "over the web technology" to minimise travel
• using the train rather than a car as often as possible
• if we need to take the car then making multiple appointments in one trip
• all forms of recycling (paper, glass, bits of old computer, even batteries)
• only two members of our office based staff drives a car to work

other things we are looking at:

• carbon offsetting as a business
• GAYE matching scheme for employees charity contrbutions

It's not a fad, it's just the right thing to be doing as an employer.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Although we are a small business, we like to feel that we can make a small impact on the Bristol community. Here are some of things we've done over the last 12 months, and things we commit to going forward:

• David acts as a mentor on the Bristol University Engineering Department's "Entrepreneurship" module
• each year we take as many work experience students from local schools as we can
• David is a regular "visitor from work" at Clevedon Community School.  This is a careers day the school run where business people come into the school and talk about what their job is like and how they got there
• advertise all jobs at the local job centre
• regularly support our clients' and our staff's charity efforts (Bryony's Dad's charity cycle ride, Sarah doing the Race for Life, David doing the Macmillan Cancer Support Longest Golf Day)