Being awarded Gold CSR Accreditation is a proud moment for CIWM, and a significant milestone on our journey towards achieving our purpose, to move the world beyond waste.
We have a responsibility to make change our legacy, as our Strategic Plan clearly states. As the leading professional membership organisation for the sustainability, resources and waste management sector, we are uniquely positioned to influence and shape the future of waste and resource management, and to help effect that change. Not just here in the UK, but worldwide.

Our goals are lofty, but our approach is very much down to earth: the earth we seek to protect. We are dedicated to leading through excellence and are taking practical steps towards this objective, as shown by our commitment to Net Zero and the initiatives outlined in this document.

Social responsibility sits at the heart of everything we do, and it is indeed the crux of all work towards caring for our environment and addressing the climate crisis. What could be more socially responsible than that?

Importantly, it’s not simply about what we do, but also about the way we do it, as an organisation and as individuals – living up to our word, putting our pledges and promises into action, enabling and empowering our members to do the same and to make a real difference to the world we live in, both now and for generations to come.
Finally, I would like to say a big thank you to CSR-A for this recognition. Our journey has only just begun, of course, and we will work diligently to maintain our Gold CSR Accreditation and build upon the good that it represents.

Sarah Poulter
CEO, CIWM
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What comes next?

Maintaining our CSR Gold Accreditation
CSR Gold Accreditation lasts for three years and we’re already planning to build on our credentials and initiatives to ensure we maintain it when it’s time to apply again. A cross-organisation CSR Team was established at the start of the application process and will continually monitor and record any related activity against the four CSR pillars. The team will also meet on a quarterly basis to discuss the measurement and impact of activities so we can be sure that what we are doing is making a real difference and that we can appropriately validate it.

We’ll have yearly check points with CSR-A who will help guide us through the maintenance process and help us communicate the good things we continue to do.
Sharing our CSR values with the sector
CIWM’s mission is to unite, equip and mobilise our community of members to lead, influence and deliver the science, strategies, businesses and policies for the sustainable management of resources and waste. 

To achieve this, our plan is to share our CSR values through the delivery of CSR training to members, and by telling them about our accreditation journey to help guide them if they want to go through the CSRA process themselves. Interested? We think you should be! More information will be available soon.

In the meantime, we encourage you to start thinking about what you and your business or organisation is already doing around CSR and what you could do going forwards; you may be surprised at how much you are already doing and what more you could achieve.

If you have any questions about our CSR journey, or about setting out towards your own accreditation, please don’t hesitate to contact Jacqui.brunton-douglas@ciwm.co.uk