At BCS, Corporate and Social Responsibility is much more than recycling and saving energy, it is core to our values as a firm. As a member of Business in the Community (BITC), we strive to embrace responsible business in everything we do.

Supporting our wider community is a responsibility we take seriously and commit to with our time and resources.

As part of our extensive Vision 2030 Employee Consultation, we asked our people what mattered to them – and as part of their thoughtful feedback they responded with overwhelming support for our commitment to being a Responsible Business, and a clear steer that they want us to be a carbon neutral business.

That’s why we’re now proud have started 2021 as a carbon neutral business having offset all our historical carbon debt in partnership with EcoAct. This is just one of the many ways we are demonstrating our commitment to helping tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Our focus is now shifting towards looking at ways we can reduce our emissions year on year through behaviour change (in line with our Investors in the Environment award), so that we offset less and less going forward.

We also partner with The Brilliant Club, London’s fastest growing educational social enterprise. This award winning charity does a fantastic job of widening access to highly selective universities for outstanding pupils from non-selective state schools.

The Brilliant Club focus on recruiting, training and placing doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in non-selective state schools and sixth form colleges serving under-represented groups of pupils. It really is a fantastic charity and you can find out more about their work by visiting The Brilliant Club’s website.