Corporate Responsibility

Our aims are to:
• Respect people by addressing health and wellbeing, training, diversity, equal opportunities and the working environment.
• Protect the environment
• Develop and promote local economic development
• Work with our clients and supply chain to improve sustainability performance within the built environment
• Support local initiatives
• Develop and improve stakeholder dialogue and involvement.

We recognise that economic, social and environmental issues and impacts should be considered as part of good business practice and embedded in our values.

In all of our business processes and procedures we consider our impact on our staff, our clients and the communities in which we live and work and we aim to set standards for others to follow.

Corporate responsibility permeates all areas of our organisation from the main board we guide and direct our managers throughout the business and embrace Corporate Responsibility in all that we do.

The YES Programme
The Gleeds YES programme forms part of our corporate responsibility programme and is an acronym for the 3 themes to which Gleeds is heavily committed – Youth, Education and Sport. Incorporating community needs, charity support and environmental issues, our activities are linked to themes which are inherent in our culture.

A selection of recent schemes include:
Youth: The Architects Exposé – showcasing the work of talented young architects; New Designers – celebrating graduate design work.

Education: “Our Hut” - a programme designed to educate primary school children about sustainability and the Built Environment; Links-In-India – the construction of 3 new primary schools in Calcutta

Sport: The UK Sporting Heroes Charity Event – in aid of Sport Relief. Sir Steve Redgrave CBE as the Gleeds Ambassador, we have a strong commitment to sport, with football, cricket, softball, rugby and netball teams keeping our staff healthy and active.

For more information please see our YES Overview and Case Studies