Environmental policy
The Surefoot Effect believe that businesses are responsible for achieving good environmental practice and operating in a sustainable manner.
We are therefore committed to minimising our environmental impact and continually improving our environmental performance as an integral and fundamental part of our business strategy and operating methods.
It is our priority to encourage our clients, suppliers and all business associates to do the same.
Our policy is to:
Given our work is focused on engendering action to tackle the climate and ecological emergencies, we ensure we keep abreast of the latest news and information in this sphere and regularly canvass a variety of sources. https://350.org/ is a long running and very reliable source of information, for example.
For any queries related to this Environmental Policy please contact:
Pamela Candea
Managing Director
[email protected]
We are therefore committed to minimising our environmental impact and continually improving our environmental performance as an integral and fundamental part of our business strategy and operating methods.
It is our priority to encourage our clients, suppliers and all business associates to do the same.
Our policy is to:
- Minimise The Surefoot Effect’s impact from daily office work. The Surefoot Effect has never had and doesn’t have a physical building. We communicate, prepare and evaluate work with the clients from home offices and have always delivered workshops and events at the client’s premises or hired venues.
- Minimise energy and water usage where we hire premises, and help other occupants to do this as well. For example, we don’t use projectors and PowerPoints unless absolutely necessary and turn off all electrical equipment when not in use.
- Minimise our consumption of natural resources, especially where they are non-renewable. For example, we use ceramic cups and plates rather than disposable ones.
- Minimise our waste and then reuse or recycle as much of it as possible. For example we ensure caterers use prepare just the portions we need and that any left over food is taken away for eating later and any food waste is composted properly.
- Minimise transport via online meetings with clients, partners and internal meetings in Surefoot. For example, we have since our inception in 2012 been using online tools and phone calls for planning meetings.
- Use walking, cycling, public transport and car sharing as our preferred means of transport, when we do have to travel. For example, we provided training in Switzerland for 6 years, always travelling from the UK by train.
- Minimise any impacts from our operations on the physical environment and local community. We always ensure there is minimal or no air, land or water pollution from our activities and that local communities will only have the good things left from our presence.
- Purchase products and services that do the least damage to the environment and encourage others to do the same, particularly our own suppliers. For example, we use recycled paper when we do have to print but keep printing to a minimum.
- Assess the environmental impact of any new processes or products we intend to introduce in advance. For example, we keep our physical technology purchases to an absolute minimum and buy refurbished equipment and repair wherever possible.
- For face to face workshops, we incorporate being in nature where possible. This is to support individual wellbeing and strengthen the connection to nature.
- Provide healthy, plant-based, sustainable, locally-sourced, low packaging, and most often organic, refreshments where The Surefoot Effect is responsible for events. For example, we order local, seasonal, minimally processed vegan food for catering.
Given our work is focused on engendering action to tackle the climate and ecological emergencies, we ensure we keep abreast of the latest news and information in this sphere and regularly canvass a variety of sources. https://350.org/ is a long running and very reliable source of information, for example.
For any queries related to this Environmental Policy please contact:
Pamela Candea
Managing Director
[email protected]
