Catering – Bartlett Mitchell
Bartlett Mitchell (BM) provide all catering services at 18 Smith Square.
BM have been named Sustainable Caterer of the Year for three years in succession. Their policy is to source ingredients locally, regionally and seasonally from farmers who produce food to high environmental standards, reducing the impact of climate change and helping to protect the landscape and our farming heritage. BM use high-welfare meat, poultry, eggs, cheese, and dairy produce and sustainable seafood.
Overseas produce is sourced from ethical suppliers, including coffee from the Soppexcca
co-op in Nicaragua which supports women farmers in the region. BM use the ‘Free Wheeling’ initiative to reduce the number of deliveries to their kitchens.
Total facilities management – Bouygues
Bouygues environmental policy recognises that the company’s activities and services have the potential to impact on the environment. The policy sets out Bouygues’ commitment to minimising the environmental impact of its operations in every way it can and is supported by ‘live’ environmental improvement plans at all levels.
The company is triple certificated to ISO9001, ISO14001 and OHSAS18001 and the environmental management standard ISO 14001 is fully integrated into its everyday activities.
Bouygues’ Facilities Management business was the first in the UK to achieve Energy Management Standard ISO50001. They are currently focusing on reducing carbon impact, minimising waste, diverting waste from landfill and reducing energy.
Pensions – Merseyside Pension Fund and Camden Pension Fund
The LGA’s main pension provider, Merseyside Pension Fund, has a policy of responsible investment. The policy has three components: exercise of voting rights; engagement with companies on environmental, social and governance issues and collaboration with like-minded investors. The Fund is active in the work of the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum whose work covers a range of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues, and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change.
Some employees belong to the Camden Pension Fund, who like all pensions funds, are bound by the law relating to Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) policy. The Fund believes that ‘robust’ engagement with companies is a better approach than placing restrictions on particular types of investment. It also believes that companies conforming to high ethical and social standards will produce shareholder returns that are at least comparable to those produced by other companies.