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We have developed a clear, board led vision and ESG strategy, marked out with clear responsibilities. Our Executive Chairman, Neil Campling, drives this supported by an ESG team from across the group led by Andrew Sugden.  

The ESG team implements our policies, sets actions and reports on where we are against targets.

Together, they ensure that our company and ESG values are aligned under four key pillars:

  • Business Commitment & Ethics
  • Carbon Footprint and Biodiversity Preservation
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Local Presence & Ecosystems Management
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Our ESG Journey to date

Strategy

As a family-owned company, we are passionate about investing in today's generation and those to come. Having an ESG plan will help us to ensure that our future is sustainable and has a positive impact on our environment.

Environment Goals

  • Be an advocate of sustainability
  • Minimise our impact on the environment without forgetting our social commitment
  • Aiming for sobriety

 

Social Goals

  • Enable employees to develop professionally, promote work/life balance
  • Promote equality, diversity, inclusion, health and wellbeing
  • Support charities and stakeholders in our communities

Governance Goals

  • Drive transparency across our business
  • Manage our risks and opportunites
  • Promote the Verlingue values and behaviours

 

 

2024 Successes

  • Recycling stations in all offices
  • Reduction in printers and printing
  • Creation of paperless offices
  • Reduction in office tempatures in winter months
  • Lights and equipment switched off out of hours
  • Litter picking and Food bank collection
  • Participation in Big Green Week
  • Charity of the Year (Alzheimer's Society) events
  • Wellbeing support for all staff from external counselling and full private health cove
  • Success in gaining EcoVadis Silver Status
  • Improved metrics on HR
  • Positive promotion of benefits of ESG and inclusion of all offices
  • Review of key policies

Our ESG Goals

We recognise that an ESG strategy has to be continuous and ever evolving. Our plans include a clear calendar of events and activities planned for 2025 and beyond:

  • Strive to maintain the Silver accreditation for EcoVadis
  • Improve our reportable metrics in relation to ESG related matters
  • Support our local communities through volunteering and focused events
  • Drive wellbeing and work/life balance activities to support employees

 

Andrew Sudgen smiling

Our 10 commitments

We need our employees to commit to help us succeed. We ask you to help in our goal by making a simple 10-point commitment in 2024 (and beyond).

If you have the chance to do one small thing today that makes the world a better place, would you do it?

Lots of small actions make a massive difference

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At Verlingue we believe that by focusing on ESG today we can
prepare for tomorrow
and generations to come.

 

Commitment to ethics: zero tolerance of breaches of probity

As part of the Adelaide Group, of which Verlingue is a member, we regard integrity and ethics as fundamental pillars of our identity and our business. In keeping with our values and our responsibility to our employees, business partners and society, we have a zero-tolerance policy towards any form of impropriety.


This policy reflects our unwavering commitment to preventing and detecting any practices that run counter to the principles of ethics and transparency, such as corruption, influence peddling and any other behaviour that is illicit and/or contrary to the code of conduct in force in each Group company which can be reported on the digital reporting tool: https://report.whistleb.com/groupeadelaide


We invite everyone to browse through the details of our approach and to become actively involved in promoting a culture of integrity and compliance. Together, let's build a future where ethics is at the heart of everything we do.

 

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