Guardian News & Media’s governance structure supports the integration of sustainability across the business. Neil Berkett continues as chair of GMG. Suzy Black, Group HR director, remains in the role of sustainability champion on the GNM executive committee. Reporting to Suzy Black is Paula Tsung, Head of Workplace and Sustainability for GNM. Paula leads a team of three people: Christopher Hodgson, environment and sustainability manager, a community partnerships co-ordinator (to be recruited), and Jan Stevens, sustainability co-ordinator.
Advocates
The team is supported by a number of committed departmental advocates who help to spread the word about sustainability. They make sure that everyone in the business is kept up to date with our objectives and what they need to do, as individuals and teams, to make sure we achieve them.
Members of the advocate network meet on a quarterly basis, to review sustainability action plans for each department and engage with external stakeholders on sustainability issues.
Changing structure
Working on a medium-term strategy and consistently living The Scott Trust values, we can be one organisation where everyone counts. To meet the strategic needs of the organisation, the department will be repositioned over the next year and will take on responsibility for internal diversity and inclusion.
Feedback
Every year we collect feedback from stakeholders, giving them a chance to have their say about how we’re doing: we survey our readers, asking them to share their thoughts on everything – from the food we sell in our staff restaurants to the environmental impact of our print sites – and we do the same with employees. You can read the findings of our most recent readers’ survey here. The results of our latest employee survey are here.
Our work with community partnerships is a very important part of our sustainability work. This includes projects with young people, environmental groups, schools, older people, and inclusion activities. Find out more about what we do on our community website here.
We continue to work with corporate sustainability agency DNV GL. They examine data and review aspects of performance when it comes to climate responsibility. Their findings help to reassure us about our approach and tell us what we need to do, to make it even better in the future.
•Read about our sustainability performance here.
