Feltham, Hanworth and Bedfont

Age Concern Feltham Hanworth and Bedfont seeks excellence in every aspect of our business and is committed to minimising the environmental impacts of our organisation.

Our commitment is to:

Continuously improve our environmental performance and integrate recognised environmental management best practice into the organisation.

Reduce our consumption of resources and improve the efficient use of those resources.

Measure and take action to reduce the carbon footprint of the organisation’s activities.

Manage waste generated from our organisation according to the principles of reduction, re-use and recycling.

Manage our business operations to prevent pollution.

Give due consideration to environmental issues and energy performance in the acquisition, design, refurbishment, location and use of buildings.

Ensure environmental, including climate change, criteria are taken into account in the procurement of goods and services.

Comply as a minimum with all relevant environmental legislation as well as other environmental requirements to which the firm subscribes.

To meet our commitments we will:

Provide Board oversight and review of environmental policies and performance, and manage effective direction and implementation.

Set and monitor key objectives and targets for managing our environmental performance.

Communicate internally and externally our environmental policy and performance on a regular basis, and encourage feedback.

Communicate the importance of environmental issues to our staff, volunteers and service users.

Work together with our staff, volunteers, service users, suppliers, and the local authority to promote improved environmental performance.

Promote appropriate consideration of sustainability and environmental issues in the services we provide to our clients.

Review our environmental policy regularly.

This statement represents our general position on environmental issues, and the policies and practices we will apply in conducting our business. Our Environmental statement is accessible to other interested parties via our website (www.ageconcernfeltham.org.uk) and on request.