Find out more about the work we do to progress each area of our sustainability strategy.
Cultural positivity
We are committed to promoting a positive culture that creates equal opportunities and nurtures talent in a safe and mindful environment. Our commitment to making WiIlmington a great place to work for all is focussed on three key areas:
Our Ambition
- To employ a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and the communities we engage with
- To create an environment in which every member of our workforce helps to foster a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion
Our dedicated Diversity and Inclusion working group, led by our Head of Diversity & Inclusion, works across our whole portfolio to ensure Wilmington celebrates and values diversity at every level in every team.
Our Ambition
- To achieve the full potential of our people by supporting strong health and wellbeing
- To ensure our people are supported to drive the innovation, creativity and dedication that fuels sustainable business growth
Our Ambition
To echo the ambition of our training businesses within our own workforce, by looking for new and engaging ways to develop individuals and teams
Customer empowerment
We empower our customers to realise maximum value from our offering by embedding a customer-led approach to product development and delivery.
We focus on three key areas to achieve this:
Accessibility
Produce products that are accessible to all, with a consistent approach to each core product group.
Innovation, flexibility and agility
Embed a dynamic product management approach that can respond rapidly to change whilst maintaining high quality outputs.
Customer engagement
Ensure customers directly inform the new product development agenda, and facilitate strong communication channels for customer feedback.
Proactive assurance
We instil a culture of strong ethical compliance and responsible digitisation across the portfolio.
Our ethics policies are designed to provide clear and consistent guidance to our people to ensure they demonstrate the highest standards of ethical conduct.
We also take a proactive approach to uphold the highest standards of cyber security and data privacy. Our digital assurance process is governed by skilled individuals who maintain high levels of control and compliance in this area and implement best practice in govenance, incident respose, training and testing.
Environmental responsibility
We are committed to supporting a healthy planet for our people, our partners and our local communities to prosper.
In response to the climate change and biodiversity loss crises, we want to ensure that our business plays an active role in addressing these challenges.
We will become carbon neutral in FY22, and are working hard to set ambitious targets as we build our roadmap to become a net zero carbon business.
Use of materials
As part of our digitalisation programme, we have significantly reduced our reliance on print and packaging. Where we still use printing services, our resource use policy mandates the use of sustainable raw materials and adherence to responsible production.
Disposal of materials and assets
Our IT waste is managed by accredited recycling partners, and any redundant assets are repurposed or recycled.
Our offices provide recycling units for waste, with supporting guidelines to encourage our people to reduce waste and recyle effectively.
Energy use
Our biggest direct impact on the planet come from emissions from our offices, so this is a key area of focus as we switch to renewable energy supplies, and high quality offset programmes for any emissions we cannot yet eliminate.
Product delivery
We are working hard to reduce the environmental impact of our product delivery cycle. This starts with reducing the impact of production in our offices, and extends to our broader operations through travel and resoure use policies, before focussing on how our different delivery formats can be achieved with minimal environmenal impact.