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We strive to be a responsible business, constantly looking for ways to improve the way we work and the positive impact we have on the communities where we operate.
Our workplace
We are committed to providing a healthy working and physical environment for everyone who works for us. We believe our workforce reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate and this helps us to deliver a better service. We pay our staff a fair living wage, monitor gender pay and ensure that everybody has the opportunity to develop their full potential.
Working positively in Our community
We are proud to be a family business with close links to the communities we live and work in.
These links include a number of charities and organisations we have partnerships with including our local environment partner, Canals Trust with whom we maintain a section of the Lee Navigation near our HQ in Enfield. This is carried out by volunteers from Browne and involves maintaining the canal for the benefit of the local community. We adopted Environment as a value in 2019 and we have plans to achieve Net CO2 emissions by 2030 which is a challenging but achievable target and the right thing to do.
We support a number of local charities including Haven Hospice in Woodford Green and North Enfield Foodbank. We have a partnership with Haven House so that we donate £1 to this charity for safety intervention on our sites generated by our staff. In November 2020 we generated 628 interventions therefore raising £628 for this wonderful charity and we are determined to exceed this going forward while at the same time improving safety standards on our sites.
“We are delighted to have been chosen by Browne as their charity partner. The support we have received from the local business community during this extraordinary time has been vitally important to the hospice. Our partnership with J Browne means we will be able to help more families with seriously ill children and we are so grateful to them for their support. The future is still uncertain but working together is helping to keep our services running. ”
We have close links to UK Prostate Cancer UK, and we have donated over £25,000 to this fantastic research charity over the last few years primarily linked to fund raising linked to their annual March for Men. In the absence of this event due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we made a direct donation of £7,500 this year to the charity. We have also instigated an annual programme of PSA prostate cancer tests and education campaign within our business to ensure that we educate and have measures in place to detect early signs of this illness.
We are significant local employers and we have over 300 full time employees and support a further 200 supply chain jobs primarily in London and the South East. We have links to local schools including the Oasis Academy in Enfield where we have taken part in a number of employment and STEM promotion events.
“We are so grateful to Browne for their generous donation, and thank them for their continued support. The Covid-19 pandemic has sadly put much of our research at risk. However, the support of companies like Browne can help us protect future research into better tests and treatments for prostate cancer and fund support for men and their families affected by this disease, which is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK.”
The environment – net zero CO2 by 2030
We have an ambitious 2030 net zero CO2 target and we have adopted Environment as one of our four core Company values.