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services that change lives

Our social pillar focuses on creating meaningful opportunities and positive impacts for communities. We deliver employment, training, and rehabilitation programs, particularly for disadvantaged groups and ex-offenders while partnering with charitable initiatives to support local development and provide specialist care. Social responsibility is integrated into everything we do, ensuring our business delivers value beyond profit.

Some examples of our social value programmes:

Release on Temporary License (ROTL) this program enables us to work with those reaching the end of their prison sentence and are Release on Temporary License. We support these groups into work across our operational sites. This helps reduce reoffending and provides invaluable second chances to change lives for the better

Extending our reach as well as our support for those people who are within or leaving the justice system, we work with other disadvantaged groups to help provide the right opportunities to create stability and self-sufficiency in today’s world

Bespoke social value solutions – we can develop unique social value solutions for your project, for example in partnership with Recycling Lives Charity we helped to set up a Renew Hub as part of our contract with Suez/GMCA which is staffed by people including those from disadvantaged groups. Projects like these can help meet your social value commitments and truly make a difference

External partnerships – we work closely with our local communities and supply chain to improve the outcomes of those who need our support. For example we lease out some of our head office space to local charities at reduced rates to help them in their missions

Caring for our own staff we invest heavily in welfare, training, improving diversity and making our operations a rewarding workplace to ensure our own staff are well looked after

Sustainability Report 2024/25

Sharing how we generated £42.9m social value, welcomed 15% of our team via our rehabilitation programmes, created employment by processing 1.4m waste items within prison workshops, and supported a 95% rehabilitation rate for ex-offenders.

Recycling Lives Charity

We also work closely with Recycling Lives charity to help support their social programs.

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