Corporate Social Responsibility

We believe that being good at business means doing good as a business.

We hold ourselves accountable for the impact our business has on the environment and society. We have guidelines for our people and the people we work with to ensure that our business achieves the following:

Supports charities

Invests in staff development

Encourages sustainable and environmentally friendly buildings and operations

Charity Work and Community

Our people are our most important resource. We want them to feel good about their work and encourage them to support and engage with the causes of their choice. This is why we give our people time off to carry out charity work in their community.

Indeed, charity work forms a big part of our CSR strategy, which is why each year by collective vote, our Management Team chooses a charity that has a personal resonance to a member of the OSIT Team. So far, we have elected to support:

Good Companions Cuppa Lunch Club

2019

£2k

The McClafferty family

2018/19

£13k

Future Talent

2016 Onwards

£60k+

Shelter from the Storm

2017/18

£12K

Melanie Roberts

2016/17

£10k

Aidan Cox

2015/16

£10k

Nottingham Children’s Hospital

2014/15

£10k

Our fundraising is varied and has seen our people involved in some fun, yet challenging situations. Some of our recent events include:

The Welsh Three Peaks Challenge for the McClafferty Family.

Bear Grylls Survival Race and Skydive for Shelter from the Storm.

Rough Runner for Melanie Roberts.

Nuclear Races for Aidan Cox.

Tough Mudder for Nottingham Children’s Hospital.

Charity work in our local communities.

Centre socials and activities

Community Commitment

As a company, we want to help and develop our staff and the communities we collectively work and live in. This is why we have developed a Cadbury file; a collective file of ideas that we aim to implement wherever possible. Some examples of previously implemented ideas include offering work experience opportunities to staff and clients’ children. This support for educational development also extends into research projects we fund. In conjunction with workplace designers and consultants, Peldon Rose, we work with Kingston University to assit them in their research projects.

As well as funding academic projects, we're proud to sponsor Louisa Hone, a rising star in netball. Louisa is continuing to go from strength to strength with her team, East Midlands Performance Academy. It’s not just rising sport stars that we support. We also work with Future Talent, a charity that gives financial support and guidance to young musicians aged between 5 and 18 with outstanding musical ability, but who don’t have the financial means to reach their goal. We provide Future Talent with office space at Mayfair, where their talented musicians can also use perform in the auditorium.

Environmental Consideration

As well as raising money for charitable causes, we encourage sustainable and environmentally friendly buildings and operations. This ranges from big items, like the recycling of paper, printer cartridges and batteries throughout our sites, through to the smaller details, like serving fair trade tea and coffee. As well as recycling, we also employ energy-saving tactics, such as motion-sensor lighting, which ensures lights are only on when the corresponding office space is in use.

Green Energy

Office Space in Town have joined forces with Open Energy to purchase green energy in an attempt to halt deforestation and tackle climate change.

Open Energy work in partnership with Cool Earth, a non-profit organisation, to support the Awajun community in Northern Peru where vast areas of the natural rainforest are under threat from loggers.

Through our energy contracts with Open Energy, Office Space in Town add to the total level of rainforest protection. We have taken this decision to join Open Energy because only 24% of the Earth’s remaining rainforests are intact. To date, Open Energy have saved 397 acres of rainforest and 95,280 trees have been protected. At OSiT, we are keen to play our part in increasing these figures.

The Open Energy ‘Cool Earth’ initiative also supports local communities by investing in sustainable livelihood support, forest health and community improvement.

For more information on Open Energy, please click here.