Community
CSC UK Community Investment - Strategy and Programme
Our "CSC Gives Back" programme aims to make a positive difference in the communities in which CSC operates by developing sustainable business-community partnerships that aim to address economic, social and environmental issues and contribute to sustainable development.
Investing in the community is key to company success in any economic climate, bringing long-term sustainable benefits to both business and communities.
When operating effectively, the company’s community investment programmes should create long-term value for the communities we engage with and demonstrate our CLEAR values. We also seek to empower our own employees and enable them to reach their full leadership potential through their participation in CSC’s community investment programmes.
Community Issues, Risks & Opportunities
• Education - Availability of roles for school leavers within the community is limited due to the economic climate. CSC acknowledges the need for: raising the achievements of students in secondary education and linking with the IT Curriculum in schools; establishing potential work experience & apprenticeship opportunities with appropriate schools/partners; and, mentoring young people.
CSC’s support & guidance to the IT curriculum in schools will help ensure that the IT subjects matches the requirements of the IT industry, and students through their work experience with CSC will see us as an Employer of Choice.
• Youth Projects – CSC recognizes the importance of business engagement with disadvantaged young people who can be held back by the lack of access to work experience opportunities. We look to build reciprocal relationships between our company and young people that are initiated and sustained with benefits to both parties.
• Environment – Although CSC does not directly manufacture nor produce any products, we seek to be diligent of any possible environmental impact of our business. CSC’s community volunteering projects aims to make sustainable improvements to their local communities, raise awareness of environmental issues with our employees as well as create further opportunities for team building and employee engagement.
CSC UK’s Community Investment Programme include:
- Educational Partnering - CSC has formed strategic partnerships with "National Challenge" schools in UK where CSC can leverage its business, management and IT skills and experience to support management teams in schools to raise their OFSTED performance, as well as help its pupils to be better equipped to enter the world of work.
- Youth Projects - includes employee volunteering, work experience opportunities, donating skills and training opportunities.
- Charity & Community Partnering – including providing mentoring to the community, pro-bono consultancy work, support capacity-building activities, and fundraising.
- Environment – building on our work in tackling the environmental impact of our business, develop community initiatives which address key environmental issues. CSC is committed to investing back into its local communities through its national community investment projects, where CSC’s dedicated employees volunteer their time and talents, and work in teams to make sustainable improvements in their local communities.
- Talent and resource investment - to encourage and attract an inclusive workforce.
- Other employee programmes – such as Flex Payroll giving and CSC's matched giving scheme.
Our community investment programme:
- Is based on collaboration and participation with community members, clients and partners, and, support specific projects of mutual interest to the community and the company.
- Leverages existing capabilities from CSC employees to support local communities and create an opportunity for our employees to develop & enhance their own leadership skills, learning and development.
- Engages employees and aims to develop further pride in CSC through participation of our community investment programmes.
- Promote diversity and inclusion.
- Measure and evaluate effectiveness.
Management Targets to Implement CSC UK Community Strategy
By Mar 2013, CSC will engage at least 10% of its UK employees to participate in mentoring, pro-bono work, community volunteering and fundraising:
- By March 2013, CSC will aim to provide at least 15 mentoring initiatives in the UK communities we operate in;
- By Mar 2013, at least 100 CSC UK employees will be supported to develop their Leadership competencies through our community investment programme.
Annually, CSC UK will provide four community volunteering initiatives for staff to engage in, which address key environmental and/or social issues in the locality of our UK sites.
Performance Measurement
We measure our the performance of our community investment programme using the London Benchmarking Group methodology, and using this measurement we have demonstrated an increased percentage of employees that actively participate in community activities in company time as follows: FY10 – 3.2%; FY11 - 5.2%; FY12 – 7.4%.