Corporate & social responsibility
Charitable causes
We use our position as a full service research agency to encourage our research participants to offer up a percentage of their fee to charitable causes, topped up by our own fundraising activities. In 2011 we raised £8k, the majority of which went to our 3 supported charities.
St Mungo's housing, supporting and caring for vulnerable and excluded people who either have been, or are at risk of, sleeping rough and homelessness.
Alzheimer's Society is the leading support and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers.
Global Vision International We sponsor the sports programme of the Phoenix projects for Sustainable Education in Nicaragua via Global Vision International (GVI) charitable trust. Our contributions help our young friends in Nicaragua participate in their local football league.
You can follow Team Phoenix's progress here or keep updated on the Phoenix projects in general on their Facebook page.
Environment
We are determined to minimise our environmental impact at every level within the company. We adhere to a strict environmental policy which can be downloaded here. Very simply this means that we:
- Manage our IT equipment in a responsible and sustainable way, ensuring that all redundant equipment is either disposed of correctly or passed on to charities, and all consumables are recycled
- Operate our offices in an energy efficient manner, replacing existing technology with low emission alternatives
- Deploy latest technology to minimise our carbon footprints. We use voice and video conferencing to minimise travelling requirements
- Minimise paper usage and work with Green Your Office to recycle all our waste paper
- Have procedures in place to ensure all our waste is recycled
- Encourage cycling to work through participation in government bike schemes and provision of secure cycle storage
- Walk the walk by continually promoting environmental awareness through company literature and procedures
