TAKING RESPONSIBILITY

We take our responsibilities within the local and wider community extremely seriously.

Education

We have been running our work experience and mentoring programme for over 23 years. In this our 30th year we have committed to at least 30 days of work experience and mentoring programmes. We work closely with local schools and colleges to promote our industry and help young people explore their career options in the world of communications. Our links with educational establishments are strong and varied, including providing help with resources as well as providing knowledge and advice.

Community support

Working closely with many local organisations, we help support our community in many different ways. From helping to raise funds for needy causes to working with groups to improve their environment, drpgroup strives to support the community that it operates within. This year we have committed to 30 CSR projects.

National charities

In the last 12 months we have helped to raise over £240,000 for some of the UK's best known national charities such as Kids Out, VSO, The Variety Club, Macmillan Cancer Trust, Comic Relief and we are proud to be the corporate supporters of Springboard, a charity that helps and encourages young people to find careers in the hospitality and leisure industries, where we have developed our Believe programme, helping long term unemployed to enter our sector.

Environmental

We have robust environmental policies and procedures in place, from the monitoring and assessment of our suppliers to the continual evaluation of our own operations; we are constantly examining new ways to reduce our carbon footprint. This year we were the first company in our sector to be accredited with BS8901 and ISO:14001, both industry and government recognised standards of environmental management.

Diversity

Our commitment to equality is unquestioned, working towards gold standard in the Diversity for London programme. We were the first organisation in the UK to be selected to be a pioneer in this scheme of validation in reaching excellence.