The Queen's Awards Magazine 2017

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Company Description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceeding the section, for checking: CMS Window Systems Ltd Design, manufacture and installation of environmentally, economically and socially sustainable window and door systems Company Description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceeding the section, for checking: Manor House Development Trust xxxxxx

Manor House Development Trust

Bettys & Taylors Group

MANOR HOUSE DEVELOPMENT TRUST MHDT is delighted to have won a Queens Award for Enterprise 2017 – Sustainable Development. Celebrating its 10th Anniversary Year, MHDT has developed a innovative; measurable way of delivering community development to create a place where people live happily. Over the last 10 years we have engaged and empowered thousands of individuals andmany local community groups.

Family business, Bettys & Taylors Group, has a tea and coee supply chain which touches over a million people across 24 countries. While it’s long been committed to trading

responsibly, recently the business has transformed the way it works with suppliers, helping them to become more sustainable in the face of challenges such as climate change and poverty. The Queen’s Award honours Bettys & Taylors’ commitment to putting its values at the heart of the way it sources, its leadership within its sector, and the impact it’s having on lives, livelihoods and communities around the world. One example of the business’s impact is its work with growers in Kenya. Here, the business has worked with suppliers to install rainwater harvesting and ltration systems in 50 schools and community centres; supported secondary schoolchildren with educational bursaries; and is funding a 10-year project to plant one million trees with 4,000 tea smallholders, providing themwith additional income, while delivering environmental protection. Tea smallholders in Kenya, beneciaries of a project to plant one million trees.

MHDT is led by local residents with 80% of its sta also local people

MHDT is led by local residents with 80% of its sta also local people. We are proud to be a social enterprise and charity. Our area is one of the poorest in the UK. We are working to change it creating a resilient and sustainable community, which has been achieved through a unique ve keystone approach: Connecting; Empowering; Inuencing; Creating Space and Organisation. Our next objective is for other community organisations to take on our approach and implement it elsewhere across the UK.

MANOR HOUSE DEVELOPMENT TRUST The Redmond Community Centre, Kayani Avenue, London, N4 2HF Tel: +44 (0)20 8802 7580 • www.mhdt.org.uk • info@mhdt.org.uk

BETTYS & TAYLORS GROUP 1 Parliament Street, Harrogate HG1 2QU • Tel +44 (0)1423 814 000 PR@bettysandtaylors.co.uk • www.bettysandtaylors.co.uk

CMS Window Systems Ltd

As Scotland’s leading window, door and curtain walling designer, fabricator and installer, CMS Window Systems is unique in the fenestration industry for demonstrating how environmental, social and economic sustainability can underpin a successful manufacturing business. Growing from humble beginnings in 2006 to a £32m turnover business in just over a decade, CMS has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Sustainable Development category – recognition for its holistic approach to sustainability and its ethos of ‘closing-the-loop’ in everything it does. CMS products and services help reduce the carbon footprint of homes and buildings, while at the same time it operates in a resource-ecient way that generates virtually no landll waste thanks to its extensive in-house recycling facilities. The company is also a Living Wage employer, a holder of both the Investors in People Gold standard and Investors in Young People accreditation, and renowned for creating regular employment opportunities for local young people through Modern Apprenticeships. It is active in improving the communities in which it operates through a range of charitable donations and practical support for local initiatives. Andy Kerr, Managing Director of CMS Window

The company is a living wage employer and creates employment opportunities for local young people.

The company generates virtually no landll waste thanks to its extensive in-house recycling facilities.

triumphed against 27 other EU countries to win the ‘management’ category for medium and large companies in the European Business Awards for the Environment (EBAE). Based at Castlecary near Cumbernauld, CMS Window Systems employs more than 250 people at its 15-acre main manufacturing and recycling facility and HQ, plus its branch in Kirkcaldy.

Systems, said: “Winning a Queen’s Award for Enterprise is a tremendous honour, and I am delighted for all our sta and the management team who have worked so hard to make CMS the stand-out business it is today. We’ve consistently shown that sustainability is not a fad or a ‘nice to have’, but it can be fundamental to a successful business when approached with total commitment.” The Queen’s Award for Enterprise win is the latest high prole recognition for CMS in respect of sustainability. Just six months ago it

CMS WINDOW SYSTEMS 10 Caisteal Road Castlecary, CumbernauldG68 0FS Tel: +44 (0)1324 841398 • Fax: 44 (0)1324 841 282 info@cmswindows.com • www.cmswindows.com

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