Veolia Water UK Corporate Responsibility Report 2003

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Our employees...

Other stakeholders

Three Valleys and its employees are long-standing

Veolia Water companies are actively involved in a number

supporters of the charity WaterAid. Fundraising activities are

of external groups, including Water UK, Thames Regional

coordinated by a WaterAid Committee. The company again

Environmental Protection Advisory Committee, Environment

matched the amount raised by employees on sponsored

Agency working groups, Associate Parliamentary Environment

monthly dress down days. Other fundraising events included

Group, Kent Sustainable Business Partnership, Groundwork,

sponsored runs, eg the Rickmansworth Road Run, the

Business in the Community, Business in the Environment,

Severn Trent mountain challenge, and a Bring and Buy sale

Working Herts, Environmental Analysis Co-operative, National

in aid of the Blue Peter WaterWorks Appeal.

Society for Clean Air, Universities of Herts and Surrey, and the

Three Valleys and Veolia Water Partnership staff raised funds

CBI (Environmental Affairs and Academic Relations Committees).

for BBC Children in Need. •

Folkestone & Dover offered work experience placements to

Veolia Water Industrial Outsourcing are members of the Business

pupils aged 14 to 15.

Council for Sustainable Development UK.

Folkestone & Dover employees raised money for a local hospice through a sponsored entry to the London marathon.

Veolia Environnement is a member of the World Business

At Veolia Water Partnership dress down days raised money

Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Entreprises

for charity. Old boots and football kits were collected and

pour l’environnement (EPE).

sent to Africa as part of KitAid •

Veolia Water Partnership provided schoolchildren and

Veolia Environnement supports the following initiatives: Global

students with work experience placements.

Reporting Initiative (GRI), Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative,

Staff at Tendring Hundred completed the arduous Six Peaks

United Nations Global Compact, and the World Resources

challenge in July 2002, raising money for WaterAid

Institute (WRI).

Tendring Hundred’s annual golf day raised money for WaterAid.

Veolia Water employees participated in a fun run around Battersea Park, London, to raise money for charity.

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