BSS and the Community

We conduct all our business with honesty and integrity and are a responsible member of the community.

PTS, part of the Domestic Division, announced the NSPCC as their charity partner for the year with the aim of our employees raising money to provide help for vulnerable children. By March 2009 the total sum of money raised was £25,000. This would not have been possible without the staff, suppliers and customers of PTS. Several events ranging from a charity walk, golf day, raffle and a ‘school uniform’ day have helped to raise this amount.

BSS, part of our Industrial Division, has successfully raised £110,000 for Rainbow Trust over the last two years. These funds have given 76 families with a terminally ill child a short stay respite break at Rainbow House and Rainbow Fernstone. BSS Industrial will continue to support the Rainbow Trust during 2009 via ink cartridge and mobile phone recycling, raffles and sales conference donations.

We actively support the Prince’s Trust with management time and financial contributions. Founded in 1976 by The Prince of Wales to improve the lives of disadvantaged young people in the UK, it has become the UK’s leading youth charity, giving practical and financial support to the young people who need it most.

In 2008 we joined Business in the Community ('BITC'), an independent membership charity with the purpose ‘to create a public benefit’ by inspiring companies to improve the positive impact of business in society.

The Group’s Leicestershire based sites have over 40 volunteers who participate in the Right to Read, Numeracy Skills and Interview Techniques via Leicestershire Cares. The Company also offers work experience placements for ex-offenders and those coming out of care.

The Group’s employees also held fund raising events for Great Ormond Street Hospitals ‘Jeans for Genes’ Appeal and Breast Cancer awareness which the Company fully supported.