To us, our Corporate Social Responsibilities are our way of giving something back and showing that the industry we operate in cares. We work in a sector that can have a particularly significant impact on society and our environment and as market leader we believe it’s important that we lead the way in taking responsibility.
We also believe in helping the community around us. In caring for our employees’ future. In supporting charities. In being socially aware on a local, national and international level. And of course, protecting the environment.
Business in the community
Masternaut Three X is proud to be a member of Business in the community, a unique initiative committed to improving the impact that businesses have on society. Business in the community comprises more than 800 of the UK’s most prolific companies who share Masternaut Three X’s belief that every company has a responsibility to the wider community.
Being part of the local community
Supporting our local community is vital to us at Masternaut Three X. That’s why we strive to recruit locally – in fact, the majority of our employee base is from the local area. We are also committed to developing future talent, and work closely with a number of local high schools to offer work experience placements in a range of disciplines. In addition to this, we are currently exploring opportunities to sponsor local sports teams.
Giving to charity
We’re proud to say that in the last 12 months, we have given in excess of 50k to charity.
Our nominated charity, Help the Aged, is also a client of ours. As an active member of their Engage network, we’ve worked hard to build robust and beneficial partnerships, and have organised numerous fundraising events from tea dances to sponsored treks and even Christmas dinner with Gordon Ramsay! For us, it’s about being innovative and finding new ways to raise both money and awareness.
We have a creative approach to raising money for charities and believe that getting involved, and raising awareness is just as important as the donations themselves. Our revolutionary ‘cash for quitters’ scheme benefits our internal team, and is expected to raise around £15,000 for Cancer Research UK by the end of the year. Click here to read more about 'Cash for quitters'.
Putting our team first
We’re committed to enhancing our internal team's lives in anyway we can. Many of the internal initiatives are focussed on this objective and that’s why we’ve just introduced an incentive scheme to help our employees quit smoking. Our ‘cash for quitters’ initiative is completely voluntary and offers employees that smoke a £2,500 bonus if they successfully give up for a minimum period of time. Of this bonus, half will go directly to the employee (where we pay the tax and NI), and the other half will go to Cancer Research UK.
It’s a fact that happier, healthier people work better. We ensure that our staff have complimentary fresh fruit every day, and provide free massages for employees once a week. And for those that take the healthy option and cycle to work, there is a secure cycle shelter complete with lockers at each site.
Drive for Life: our safe driving competition
Drive for Life is the safe driving competition from Masternaut Three X and gives customers a platform to raise the profile of driver safety and duty of care issues throughout their organisation. In 2009, Masternaut ran a national Drive for Life competition that saw over 50,000 drivers take part. The scheme is judged impartially using data from GreenerFleet which forms part of Masternaut’s vehicle tracking solution. The winner won a cash prize of £1250 which was matched with the same donation to BRAKE, the UK’s road safety charity. The scheme was also supported by driver safety organisation IAM Drive & Survive. In 2010 the scheme was extended to allow customers to run their own internal competitions.
“From the day an employee starts with us, they are part of the Masternaut Three X family.”
Reducing our impact on the environment
We’re passionate about doing our bit for the environment. By not just thinking green, but being green:
- We have created a ‘Green Team Taskforce’ to ensure we minimise our use of energy and monitor our success.
- We have contracted a waste provider who is committed to recycling 80% of our waste.
- We’re striving for 100% on business paper as well as striving to print 100% of all our brochures and stationery on FSC approved sustainable paper.
- We monitor all our vehicle mileage and offset our business mileage through climate care – last year we offset an impressive 685,000 miles.
- We work closely with the Carbon Trust to make ongoing improvements to the way we work.
- We’ve implemented an employee car-sharing initiative across each of our sites.
- We are proud to be the official sponsor of Green Car Guide Live – the UK’s first green commercial vehicle show.
At Masternaut Three X, we are committed to helping our customers reduce their carbon footprint using GreenerFleet. A unique solution, it uses our advanced technology to make your fleet work.
