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Bradford asbestos company scoops industry award

Kind-hearted Bradford-based MCP Environmental has scooped an award recognising the company’s commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

The West Yorkshire asbestos management and civil engineering company, which is located in Low Moor, scooped the CSR Award at the recent UK Asbestos Training Association (UKATA) Excellence Awards.

The award, which recognised MCP Environmental’s commitment to excellence in CSR, was presented by Olympic sporting legend Kriss Akabusi.

The awards were open to all UKATA member companies. In addition to Corporate Social responsibility, the awards recognised the best advertising campaign, customer service, workforce development, training initiative and innovation.

MCP Environmental was praised by UKATA judges for the company-wide commitment to CSR, which involves all staff taking an active role in donating time and raising money for local charities and community projects.

Delighted to receive the award, Managing Director of MCP Environmental, Andy Stubbs said: “It’s fantastic to win the UKATA CSR award. CSR is an absolutely massive part of what we do. We’re committed to investing in our people and being the best we can be and CSR is a great way for us to combine this. This award is proof it’s working.”

“Our CSR is driven by our employees. Staff want to help and actually come up with the ideas themselves. As a company, we very much believe in putting something back into the community in which we all live and work.”

Amongst the company’s many CSR initiatives, MCP Environmental provides free health and safety sessions, sponsors local children’s sporting teams, uses local suppliers and donates wool and buttons to a member of staff who anonymously knits clothes for premature babies across Yorkshire. The company is also a member of the West Yorkshire Travel Plan Network and regularly encourages staff to be greener and leave their cars at home and use public transport.

Craig Evans, UKATA Chief Operations Officer, added: “The judges were wowed by MCP Environmental’s company-wide adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility practices that ultimately benefit the wider community. We work in a very technical and controlled industry, so it is great to see one of our members going outside the realms of their day-to-day business and living its social values.”

The awards, which were held at the Raddison Blu in Nottingham, marked the tenth anniversary of UKATA, the leading authority for asbestos training provision in the United Kingdom.

Tasked by the HSE in 2008 to manage the licensed asbestos training providers, UKATA has gone from strength to strength in the last 10 years, and now has more than 180 member organisations from all corners of the UK.

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