Ulster Bank launched its new three year partnership with Young Social Innovators(YSI) in January. Through its support the bank will be helping to ensure the continued success of Ireland’s largest social innovation programme where young people tackle the social issues facing them locally, nationally and globally. As the programme gets underway, twenty teams of students from around Ireland
To help you stay informed on all things CSR please find below a collection of recent national and international news items and reports that we have tracked and shared on social media during the month of March. CSR Europe launches Blueprint For Embedding Human Rights in Key Company Functions (CSR Europe) The publication breaks down the embedding process into six different elements, describes trends for each and
We’re launching a new infographic that calls on organisations to raise awareness of Ireland’s threatened biodiversity and take action to protect and enhance it. Whether you work for a tech giant, professional services consultancy, food manufacturer, public utility or pharmaceutical company, your organisation relies on the ‘ecosystem services’ we get from the natural world. Ecosystem
The Chambers Ireland CSR Awards 2016 launch took place on March 10th in Ulster Bank, George’s Quay. Gerard O’Neill from Amárach Research spoke at the launch on The Trust Recovery: Implications for Irish Businesses. If you would like to read his presentation, you can download it here . Applications are now open and the deadline is 12pm
The Q1 Member Network Meetings was hosted by PwC in Dublin and held in Clayton Hotel Silver Springs, Tivoli, Cork. The meetings focused on identifying CSR priorities with stakeholders to help determine which material issues to focus on as part of a company’s CSR strategy. Please download a copy of the Network Meeting Repor t and click here to download the slides from the presentation. This
“KPMG is delighted to engage in the Time to Read programme, being involved since its inception, we see the value in instilling a passion for reading with young students. This is one of our most popular CSR programmes, even though the commitment is significant, each year we have trouble just selecting 10 readers from the
Last year the Western People, a regional newspaper in Mayo, featured the Time to Read partnership between Lionbridge Technologies and Scoil Íosa, Ballina. Representatives from the newspaper went along to the workplace visit in the Emmet St premises where students from Scoil Íosa were invited to visit their volunteer readers at work. The workplace visit is often an exciting aspect of
To help you stay informed on all things CSR please find below a collection of recent national and international news items and reports that we have tracked and shared on social media during the month of February. Via BBC Business: Companies in the UK with more than 250 employees that fail to address pay differences between male and female employees will be highlighted in new league tables under plans announced on Friday. Those with more than 250 employees will be forced to reveal their pay gap. The regulations will affect
KPMG has reaffirmed its commitment to skills based corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Ireland with the launch of its annual CSR report, ‘ Our CSR Story ’. ‘ Our CSR Story ‘ highlights KPMG’s award-winning skills based endeavours in CSR over the past eighteen months and brings together, in a collection of short stories, the wide range of communities and charities
Ireland’s ambition to launch Europe’s next generation of software coders via the Junior Cycle took a further step forward last week with the help of computing innovation world leader Intel. Over 50 junior cycle teachers spent a day exploring Coding at the Intel Ireland Campus in Leixlip, with the company also making a donation