To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of these Company Values sections.
Things like "We're inclusive" and "We care" and "Fair wage employer" shouldn't be anything to shout about. They should be standard.
For me, if a company can differentiate itself by permitting staff to be authentic and recognising that mental health exists, then there's a problem with the baseline.
So, at Peakpact, the values we want to talk about are the ones that stretch us and our clients. Because values should evolve and guide us ever-forwards: a rising bar that keeps us reaching.
Barry, Founder of Peakpact
Actions in place
Peakpact's own steps for positive business play out through our Policies, Approaches, and Collaborations.
Peakpact office energy is 100% low-carbon renewables. We prioritise positive procurement, which means our providers are purpose-driven, show strong and clear ethics (e.g. committed to low emissions, data privacy, ESG transparency), are responsible and/or community focused. Some examples:
- Network provider: Honest mobile
- "Mobile done right."
- Business phones: Fairphone
- "...on a mission to change technology for the better."
- Internet provider: Zen
- "Do right for people and planet."
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Online privacy: Proton
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"A better internet starts with privacy and freedom."
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Workwear, marketing material: KIN.DER
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"Eco-friendly and sustainable print studio"
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Wellbeing: Treekly
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"Turning footsteps into forests"
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Professional Indemnity: REALLY HONEST
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"Great at Insurance. Bad at lying"
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Peakpact is a member of Business Peak District (BPD). The affiliation highlights:
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Peakpact's support for BPD’s vision for the Peak District region to be a distinctive, high-quality environment with a social and environmental conscience.
- Peakpact's commitment to innovative, inclusive, sustainable and supportive actions for the communities and environment within which we operate.
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Peakpact's passion for the Peak District, its unique landscapes and character.
The "INSPIRED BY THE PEAK DISTRICT" logo represents Peakpact's sense of place. We recognise the interconnections and the responsibilities which exist between any business and the contexts they operate within.
Founded in the Peak District National Park, Peakpact considers the PDNP area - the unique natural setting; the footpaths connecting the hills to crags to towns to rivers; the spirit borne from the land - as an invaluable team member, bringing clarity, wisdom and inspiration to our work.
The object isn’t to make business beautiful, it’s to create the conditions which make beautiful business inevitable.*
Creativity can fix and enhance anything. Creativity is a skill
- it can be learned, practiced, improved and refined.
Creating beauty should be a goal of every business.
Create beauty, any way we can.
* Adapting the Robert Henri Quote: “The object isn’t to make art…”
An adventure tests us in the best ways possible. It gets more out of us than we knew we had to give. And it gives back more than it ever takes.
An adventure will challenge us, and give us all the reasons our heart needs to carry on. Even when the storms come, we find the motivation.
When an adventure stops being an adventure, it's time for change.
...bad business
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To exist is to have an impact. It’s on us – as individuals and organisations – to do our best with what we have: to improve where we are and where we’re going.
Understand that business should be an adventure
Phronesis is an Aristotelian term, roughly meaning 'practical wisdom'
Real success is measured by wellbeing.
Quality
Thinking fully: present, future, self, and other.
Actions toward the most beautiful outcomes possible.
Showing up. Responding to big challenges with bigger actions.