Corporate Social Responsibility

Our Corporate Social Responsibility strategy is driven by a steering group of employees from across the organisation, each bringing ideas and their own area of expertise.

We organise our activities into three main areas:

  • Making a Difference to Others
  • Making a Difference to Our World
  • Making a Difference to Ourselves.

Making a Difference to Others

Our employees across all sites give support to raising funds for charities nominated by members of staff.

Making a Difference to Our World

Recycling

Minimising wasted energy and maximising our recycling are important to the Student Loans Company. In 2010/11 our facilities department put new arrangements in place which effectively monitor what happens to all our waste, allowing us to cut the quantities that end up in landfill and continue pushing up the amount that is reused. Across our sites we now recycle more than 70% of waste - with our Darlington office achieving 97%.

Making a Different to Ourselves

We provide our employees with access to support and advice through our employee assistance programme and occupational health providers. We have been working towards the NHS employer health accreditation schemes in both England and Scotland, and this has involved a number of initiatives from health checks to no-smoking activities.