CPM Corporate Social Responsibility Review 2020/21

We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace culture where every person can feel valued and that they belong.

We celebrated International Women’s Day

Every year, we throw ourselves into celebrating IWD. Equality and diversity are part of our DNA, and we foster a true culture of gender equality in the workforce. This is reflected in the fact that 50% of the group’s senior leadership is female.

From raising funds for victim support charity, Fundación Ana Bella, to showcasing women’s talents and celebrating the #EachForEqual campaign, we got involved on every level. CPM Ireland took the opportunity to interview two female colleagues who shared their career journey through the company.

We offered mental health support for every employee

There’s no doubt that the pandemic has had a significant impact on our mental health. Reduced social contact, working from home, financial and health issues – they all add to our mental load.

CPM Netherlands started a cooperation with Open-up to offer coaching sessions with a psychologist for everyone within the company. It was for anyone who felt they needed to talk, whatever the issue. In the UK, we trained up 15 new mental health first aiders to help raise awareness of mental health issues and reduce stigma and discrimination.

We explored what diversity really means

In July 2020, CPM Ireland focused on Diversity & Inclusion in the Company Town Hall meeting. Our aim? To explore what diversity really means.

We talked about what diversity means to our business, why it’s important to have a diverse workforce and the importance of an inclusive culture and behaviours. We also looked at unconscious bias and why this was important to recognise. CPM Ireland has now set up a Diversity & Inclusion group to drive forward the agenda.

We sponsored professional athletes

At CPM, we always say ‘hire on attitude’. Our people are our strength, and it’s their positive, proactive attitude that takes us to the next level. That’s why our scholarship programme with athletes is such a success.

CPM Netherlands has a partnership with De Sportmaatschappij, an organisation that helps professional athletes transfer to normal society after their sports career. We offer a scholarship that provides coaching and the opportunity to follow an internship at CPM. It’s a win-win for everyone. Our colleagues learn so much from the winning mentality of the athletes while they gain exposure to all aspects of our business.

We work hard to lessen our impact on the environment. By continually evaluating our operations to improve efficiency and sustainability, we aim to minimise our footprint on the world around us.

We switched over to green vehicles

We’re committed to reducing our CO2 output. Green vehicles are the fuel-efficient solution. By doing more of our miles on clean electricity, we’re emitting less CO2 and improving local air quality.

To further support green vehicles, we have implemented electric vehicle (EV) charging points across some of our UK offices. We hold the industry standard ISO14001 Environmental Certification which demonstrates our continued drive to support a greener future, with a focus on lowering our CO2 emissions across the country.

We created the ROOT garden

Spending time in green space and tending to nature benefits both mental and physical wellbeing, as well as improving the environment. With this in mind, we created the ROOT garden.

The ROOT garden is designed to give CPM employees a peaceful and relaxing area to enjoy their breaks. The employees are responsible for the garden’s upkeep, and ROOT (Reducing Our CO2 Together) organises various gardening activities to encourage wildlife and people to get involved.

We supported The Great Green Wall

The Great Green Wall initiative is an inspiring African-led movement to grow a wall of trees across the Sahel. The aim is to reverse climate change and create sustainable jobs and food security.

CPM employee, Jemma Blaylock, holds a pro bono position as a Non-Exec Director on the board of Aduna, a business focused on creating sustainable livelihoods for rural households in Africa. Along with the UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification), Aduna supports the Great Green Wall initiative. This amazing project has the potential to improve millions of lives.

At CPM, we’re committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards. We regularly review our corporate structure and policies to ensure we represent our clients and ourselves with the utmost integrity.

We kept our employees safe during the pandemic

The health and safety of our people and those around us is our top priority. As such, we introduced several initiatives to provide a safe working environment for our office employees and our field staff. Which were recognised by the Health and Safety Executive as best in class.

CPM transformed Health and Safety procedures to ensure that we are not only complying with regulations with regards to Covid-19 but, more importantly, offering a safe work environment for our employees. We brought in independent auditors to ensure that all our measures were meeting requirements. As always, our people come first.

We made sure our data protection was first-class

At CPM, data governance and data protection are embedded within our business. We have implemented technical and organisational measures across the company and adopted best practices to drive privacy-by-design in our operational processes.

All our people complete annual GDPR and security awareness training. It’s our mission to ensure everyone is fully informed and up to date. We have also implemented a new privacy platform. The OneTrust platform maintains records of processing activities and data mapping and supports other key GDPR requirements, helping to strengthen our data protection and information governance programme.