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Chiltern Chamber of Commerce CSR Survey results are outstanding

Chiltern Chamber of Commerce CSR Survey results are outstanding

Several months ago over 40% of the CC membership completed our CSR survey specially designed to assess the effectiveness of Chiltern Chamber businesses in Corporate Social Rresponsibility.

One month on and we are now in a position to reveal the very positive results! Chiltern Chamber businesses were consistently effective in providing corporate social responsibility across all four categories of ‘Environmental’, ‘Workplace’, ‘Philanthropic’ and ‘Community’. Some particularly impressive findings were as follows:

  • 100% Chiltern businesses recycle paper
  • 40% UK businesses recycle paper 100% Chiltern businesses offer flexible working

  • 43% UK businesses offer flexible working
  • 95% Chiltern businesses offer training

  • 75% UK businesses offer training
  • 86% Chiltern businesses use LED lights
  • 49% UK businesses use LED lights
  • 79% Chiltern businesses give to charity 
60% UK businesses give to charity

As you can see, these figures are consistently high, with Chiltern businesses performing way above the national average for all four categories of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Despite these very promising results, the survey still displayed room for improvement in certain areas of corporate social responsibility:

29% Chiltern businesses have health & wellbeing schemes
33% Chiltern businesses have a charity policy
37% Chiltern businesses encourage cycling to work
48% Chiltern businesses give staff volunteering time

Therefore whilst the survey showed many impressive statistics regarding the corporate social responsibility of businesses belonging to Chiltern Chamber, there remains room for improvement.

Many surveys displayed that whilst companies often donated towards charities, they failed to have an official company policy in place. This is an important thing to address on the road to becoming an extremely socially responsibly corporation.