Helping the Community
At Guernsey Post we pride ourselves on our strong sense of community involvement and responsibility, whether that means raising badly needed funds for an island charity, or putting measures in place to reduce our waste and lower our carbon footprint.
Our colleagues at Guernsey Post enjoy extremely close links with the local community and are enthusiastic charity fundraisers. In 2007/08 our focus was directed towards one charity, Headway Guernsey, and we raised £16,000 through a calendar sale, an apprentice challenge and a van pull.
In 2009 we decided to go in a different direction by setting up a new initiative, Supporting Together, which is aimed at encouraging individual employees to raise funds for the particular causes they are involved with, while we pledge up to £1,000 for each charity or sporting initiative. This enables us to support a wide spectrum of local good causes, from the Mines Awareness Trust and the Spinal Injuries Association to the Alderney Table Tennis Club and the Ladies' Touch Rugby Team.
In our environmental work we are island leaders, having scooped a coveted Keep Guernsey Green Award in 2009. By introducing recycling and waste reduction initiatives we have reduced the 'carbon footprint' of our operations through fuel and energy saving measures and by recycling more we are reducing the amount of waste we send to landfill.
As part of our Environmental Committee's work in the community we held a beach clean at the end of October when more than 40 colleagues, their family and friends, turned out to clean up our lovely island coastline at Vazon.