Leadership and Culture
Doing the right thing for the environment is a key priority at Oakland Care. Our strategy is led by our CEO and Sustainability Committee and is made up of leaders and team members from across the company. Our sustainability strategy and progress against this are reported and discussed on a monthly basis by the leadership team and Oakland Care board.
Our Sustainability Committee is working to ensure the right practices are in place and sustainability is at the forefront of all the conversations we have with our residents, professionals, suppliers and colleagues.
Employee Engagement
Our people are passionate about the environment and sustainability. We have developed training and engagement programmes to help empower them to play their part in delivering against our environmental focus areas. We provide all team members with sustainability training, which is fully embedded into our in-person induction process. We invest in specialist training to ensure expertise across the business.
Sustainable Construction & Growth
From 2022, each new build has been certified upon completion by BREEAM as excellent or above. BREEAM is an internationally recognised certification that assesses the building’s specification, design, construction, and use for its environmental impact across 51 criteria. All existing care homes have also now been assessed and/or certified.
Our sustainability strategy
Oakland Care is a growing care provider with a pipeline of new care homes planned in coming years. Each of our new builds is carefully designed on an individual basis to ensure that it takes advantage of new opportunities to reduce its impact on the environment.
Our Commitments
- We are dedicated to setting science-based targets and maintaining our carbon neutral certification.
- We will maintain our Greenmark Level 3 status.
- We give back over 2000 hours of team time to local sustainability projects each year.
- We plant over 1500 trees annually.
- We evaluate our procurement efficiency, leading to fewer deliveries each year.
- We continue to send zero waste to landfill.
- We continually review our chemical provision to reduce the use of hazardous products.
- All of our homes are designed with at least 25% of garden space dedicated to biodiversity.
- All of our construction projects are certified by BREEAM.
- We only use FSC certified timber for all construction projects.
- We invest in specialist training to ensure expertise across the business and all team members complete mandatory training on improving sustainability.
- We continue our drive towards digitalisation and have significantly reduced paper use.
Our Sustainability Journey
Carbon Neutrality – In 2021, Oakland Care became the first UK care home group to be certified as carbon neutral. Discover how we are investing in innovative projects throughout our business to reduce carbon emissions.
Biodiversity – We have been working with our residents to deliver biodiversity projects across our care homes.
Procurement – We have implemented high sustainability requirements through our tendering processes with suppliers to ensure that the supplies we procure are produced and delivered with a lower level of environmental impact.
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