After a recent review I’m pleased to announce that Jacob Bailey has been accredited with the BSi ISO14001 environmental management standard for another 3 years.

This is great news – although we’re a low risk organisation it doesn’t stop us from striving to minimise the impacts that we do impose on our environment.

We have some challenging targets to beat this year, but who doesn’t like a challenge!  We’ll also be looking for innovative ways to communicate our green policies and engage team members in our planet-saving efforts.

Roll on Climate Week…

Our sister company White Space won the Environment category at the Anglian Business Awards back in July, so we thought we’d follow this up by entering the Jacob Bailey Group into the East of England Business Champions 2011. The awards event took place at Tewin Bury Farm in Hertfordshire last Thursday and we had high…
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As I’m sure you’re all aware, today is World Car-free Day! Thanks to our commitment to the Fresh Ways to Work scheme, the vast majority of our team already travel to/from work by walking, cycling or using public transport, but we’ve made an extra effort today to try to get everyone here sustainably. And we’d…
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As JB’s Green Champ, I sometimes have to use gentle persuasion to drag potential volunteers away from their busy schedules for various activities and challenges (I find a Chinese burn works best), and so it was for the Climate Week mini-challenge. After a brief but painful recruitment drive, Shaun, Charlotte, Richard and I found ourselves gathered round a table with just one hour…
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Apologies for the shameless attention-grabbing headline, but we take the environment very seriously here at JB towers, and thought we’d share with you 5 everyday tips for reducing your impact on the planet. It’s all no-brainer stuff and without jumping on a soapbox, there’s really no reason why we couldn’t all be doing it. 1. Recycle…
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I’m sure you’re all aware that the 83rd Academy Awards will take place this Sunday, with the great and the good of Hollywood in all their finery, and homegrown talent hotly tipped to walk away with the top honours. But forget the super-egos of the L.A. elite and the over-valued golden statuette, it’s the razzle-dazzle…
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