Sustainability & FPC

As a company, sustainability is an important part of our day to day business and we try to concentrate our efforts on three core areas – economic, social and environmental.

Our focus on Economic viability is to ensure that we can continue to contribute to the Cornish Economy for many years to come. We always seek to use the expertise of local firms, such as technology partners including website developers, compliance consultants, solicitors, and HR consultants to name but a few.

In terms of Social Sustainability, we invest in our team through our ‘Education Strategy’, making sure that they achieve their full potential. However, we will never lose sight of the need for all of us to enjoy a good work life balance.  In fact, as a company we have initiated a work life balance programme, which allows all team members to work a four-day week, with slightly longer hours on the days they are in. This gives everyone the opportunity to get involved with community activities, spend more time with their families, have more time to continue their studies/education and has improved health and wellbeing.

FPC is also committed to playing an active part in our local community and takes seriously the issue of corporate social responsibility. As such, we are an active contributor in the regional business community, supporting local business groups and events. Furthermore, Donna is now a part of the Exeter University Career Mentoring scheme, working with local students each year to help them find a route into employment.

We currently support The Cornwall Air Ambulance, sponsoring the aircrew’s uniform with Pete Storer as our Critical Care Paramedic. As Jerry is a member of the Million Dollar Round Table Foundation (the charitable arm of MDRT) he won a grant for ROC in 2016 towards the cost of a trainer tractor and one of $5,000 for The Cornwall Air Ambulance in 2019 towards the purchase of a new helicopter. Additionally, we like to help some of the lesser known local charities such as Drama Express, who work with children with special needs to develop confidence and self-esteem through performing arts based activities.

Finally, when it comes to Environmental Sustainability, we are constantly striving to develop a paper free environment wherever possible, recycling materials and thinking carefully about the products that we use for cleaning. In fact, as of June 2018 internal client documentation is signed using the iPad Pro, which has saved a huge amount of printing and made the meetings more efficient.  We also ensure that company cars are eco-friendly, all office printers are default set to double sided printing and internal documents make use of fast printing, in order to save ink.

We encourage our team to put forward any ideas they may have regarding reducing FPC’s environmental impact. As such, we have recently become an active corporate supporter of the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Charity, which assists in protecting and enhancing the natural environment across Cornwall.

We are proud of what we do but know that more can always be done, should you have any suggestions we would love to hear from you!