ESG Policy
Introduction
Liquid is a global, integrated and award-winning creative consultancy formed on the fundamental values of respect, integrity and honesty.
We believe that our role as a business is to act with respect, honesty and integrity to each other, our clients, our work and our environment. We all have a role in helping to address some of the complex challenges facing our global community and our operations seek to reflect this commitment.
We apply this way of thinking to all decisions made as a communications business and consider our impact on the environment, local communities, staff and clients to ensure we act safely, reliably and fairly in our operations.
We are committed to shaping a sustainable way of engaging with communications, for ourselves and for our clients, and believe that businesses serve more than the purpose of being profitable.
Our Policy
This policy sets out what responsibility means for us at Liquid and how we embody our values of respect, integrity and honesty, and how these shape our impact on people, planet and purpose.
The policy sets out our goals for improvement and steps taken to enable Liquid to act with even greater consciousness, purpose and sustainability as business.
Our ESG Accreditations
- PRCA Communication Management Standard – Gold
- Member of the PRCA and abiding by its code of conduct
- Best Companies accredited
- Living Wage employer
- Cyber Essentials Scheme
- Committed2equality certified employer
- Carbon Neutral Britain (audit underway)
- Good Business Charter
- NABERS Energy – five stars (Australia)
- Supporting the BEDA Sustainability Action Plan (Australia)
Our promise to people
We believe in giving everyone an equal and fair chance to training, development and progression, we treat each other and our clients with respect, fairness and honesty.
We believe in constantly developing people whether via source, our graduate training programme, or Liquid Leaders, developed for our senior team, we annually invest over £25,000 into employee development.
Team welfare is managed via Liquid’s mental health first aiders, and all have access to company yoga, breakfasts to start the day fuelled.
Our promise to planet
From our carbon neutral flooring to our demonstration kitchen made from sustainable wood, we ensure as a company that we reduce our carbon footprint and support the environment
We also source all ingredients for recipe development, food photography and client entertainment from local suppliers and make a conscious effort to reduce food waste as much as possible.
Recycling of office waste and sensor activated LED lighting also helps reduce our environmental footprint by limiting waste and wasted energy.
We also encourage our staff to use public transport when travelling to the office rather than driving, utilising the nearby train stations and many bus services.
Our promise to purpose
Over the past three years we have provided pro-bono and financial support in excess of £235,500 to charities. These include the Cyrille Regis Legacy Trust (grass roots sport in the Midlands), British Transplant Games (organ donation), Change into Action (homelessness), Whitley Fund for Nature (conservation) and St John’s Ambulance.
Since 2021 we provided work experience virtually for hundreds of students and sixth formers and have engaged students with the communications industry through guest lectures at the University of Birmingham and through our mentoring activity.
We provide mentoring to the Government communications Network, UCB and the Kick Start programme.
Our commitments
We have identified the areas where we can have the most impact and have set out commitments and how we look to achieve them.
People
- We are dedicated to supporting the work-life balance of our team and have in 2022 launched a 32-hour working week. It aims to give the team greater flexibility to combine the responsibilities of life and work in a way that suits them and personal circumstances.
- We commit to ongoing surveys and ways of measuring of staff happiness, satisfaction, and wellbeing at work with annual audits to help identify areas of improvement.
- We will continue to improve the transparency and communication between the senior leadership team and the wider consultancy.
- We will continue providing training and education to our staff and the wider community with our introduction to PR and Social training to students, Liquid Kitchen food masterclasses, and other avenues where we can support learning.
- We will continue to maintain the highest level of client relationships and enact the same level of commitment, honesty and transparency as we do our colleagues.
Planet
- We will continue to reduce our air miles where possible and offset the footprint of all our air miles undertaken as a business.
- We will continue to make improvements that will reduce our footprint on the planet and will seek to influence the property management in adopting green electricity and heating for all tenants.
- Our ESG working group will work with the wider consultancy areas of the business and audit and identify further areas of improvement.
- We will continue to encourage our employees to use public transport, walk or cycle rather than drive.
Purpose
- We seek to only work with suppliers who are ESG conscious and share our values and ethics.
- We seek to grow the diversity within our business and take D&I into account when hiring new people into our team.
- We will continue to review our pay policies to ensure transparency and fairness is considered at all levels of the business, providing fair wages for good work.
- We will expand our operations in a way that is ethical and sustainable and ensure operations meet local regulation and act as a conscientious member of the community in which it operates.
- Working with our clients we expect transparency, honesty and ethical conduct of operations as we do with all our employees and suppliers.
Contact information
Liquid,
Third Floor
New Oxford House
16 Waterloo Street
Birmingham
B2 5UG
Last updated: 23/11/2023
