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MJS CSR Statement

MJS Joinery recognises its corporate and social responsibilities to its employees, suppliers, customers and other stakeholders and is committed to conducting business in an ethical, transparent and sustainable manner.

With an ever increasing focus on social value, particularly within public sector procurement and as driven by our clients, we have developed a social value plan, based around 7 key pillars [Apprenticeships, Local Employment, Training & Development, Work Experience, Fundraising, Community Engagement & Local Supply Chains].

These pillars seek to support our people, our clients, our local communities and this approach underpins our vision to be recognised as a socially responsible leader within our trade.

Our aim is to continually review, measure and improve our performance against our key pillars and we will seek to work collaboratively with other stakeholders to raise awareness and bring about further improvements across the wider industry.

Key Pillars

Apprenticeships: -

Since the company’s formation in 2015, five apprentice joiners have served their time with MJS. Of these apprentices, two joiners are still with us today. We are passionate about bringing through the next generation of Joiners to address the current needs and skills gap within the industry.

We work closely with our clients to support their targets against this key area. We recruit new joiners from the areas and communities that we operate within. This recruitment is usually done in conjunction with clients, local authorities, local job centres and colleges to ensure we reach the widest possible audience.

Where on site durations are limited, we have also supported several shared apprentice placements previously. These placements have usually been facilitated by providers such as Calico and are a great example of the industry collaborating to support training and job creation

Our aim is to employ a minimum of 2 new apprentices each year and place them in the local college, whilst also supporting shared apprentice placements where suitable opportunities arise.

Local Employment: -

This is an important K.P.I for many of our main contractors, with many of their clients seeking a minimum 70% of local labour sourced from the local postcode area or within a 10-mile radius of the project.

100% of our direct workforce reside in the NW, predominantly in Merseyside. Our Joiners are based across the North West and we work closely with our clients to satisfy their local labour targets, whilst ensuring resource levels and competency levels are not compromised.

Training & Development :-

At MJS we pride ourselves on the quality of our people, their loyalty and invest significant time and money in their development. Each of our employees has 6 monthly performance reviews to identify current and future training needs and map out steps to support future progression.

We have established links with local colleges, including Hugh Baird and City of Liverpool College.

Academic training is also supplemented with training in first aid, mental health, supervision and management (SSSTS & SMSTS).

We have invested significant funds up skilling our teams to become FIRAS accredited installers and allow our Supervisors additional training days to attend behavioural safety training programmes with our key clients.

We undertake regular toolbox talks with our teams where feedback is sought to identify future training needs.

Work Experience :-

A key KPI for many of our clients. We actively engage with our clients to support short term placements. We have supported school leavers, unemployed, students and work closely with the DWP and colleges to facilitate opportunities.

Fundraising :-

We are passionate about supporting local charities and also work closely with our clients to lend our support to their own initiatives. We have participated in several fundraising events and have made generous donations to great causes such as Barnardos, British Heart Foundation and the Whitechapel Centre to name a few.

Our Managing Director encourages our teams to work with clients in this area and aims to support at least one initiative per project.

Community Engagement:-

Having a positive impact on our communities is central to the MJS mission. At MJS we seek to continually reach out and bring about positive change for those around us and strive to make life better for those less fortunate. We have done this in several ways;

By engaging with local schools to encourage the next generation of skilled craftsman and offering employment opportunities. Part of this work has sought to encourage more women into our industry.

Sponsoring a Junior football team to support local grass roots football. This is something we will maintain year on year.

Donating material and labour to local community projects.

Working with local employment agencies to try and target and provide opportunities to long term unemployed, NEETS.

Working with social enterprises to try and offer opportunities for Ex Armed Forces personnel and Ex offenders.

Seeking to advertise and recruit from within the local community including attendance at local job fayres.

Local Supply Chain :-

At MJS, we recognise that utilising local SME’s and supporting the local pound has the biggest social impact on communities. We have an extensive Supply Chain, located across the NW, ensuring that all of the projects we service can achieve significant local spend outcomes.

We work closely with our clients to demonstrate how orders placed with MJS will support the tier 2/3 Supply Chain and wider social value agenda, whilst still guaranteeing competiveness, quality and service

As an example, by utilising local door set and timber suppliers, we achieved 95% local spend figures across our entire Joinery and Fit Out packages on the Liverpool Schools Investment Programme for Kier Construction

We promote social value within our own Supply Chain, with many of our partners sharing the same values and passion as MJS and offering support.

As a business, we seek to minimise the environmental impact of our activities through various measures including;

Seeking to reduce our waste through the reuse, recycling and responsible disposal of our materials, working collaboratively with our clients and feeding into project waste and material management plans.

Sourcing materials from sustainable sources and undertaking appropriate due diligence on our Supply Chain.

Promoting car sharing, cycling to work across the workforce, wherever possible.

Our CSR strategy is led by our Founder and Managing Director Mike Stock and our progress against the overarching strategy, including ongoing project performances are reviewed regularly with the Senior Management team.