Os serviços de resíduos da B&M se juntaram a vários outros negócios da região da cidade de Liverpool na assinatura da Carta de Desabrigas da LCR. Essa unidade exorta outras empresas do setor privado a fazer sua parte para alcançar o objetivo de crise de caridade nomeado da B&M Waste, de "acabar com a falta de moradia". A Carta sugere maneiras pelas quais as empresas, independentemente de seu tamanho ou setor, podem fazer etapas práticas para ajudar a comunidade sem -teto
The launch of the charter took place with the aim of encouraging a minimum of 200 businesses across the region sign up to the pledge. The charter suggest ways that businesses, no matter their size or industry can make practical steps to help the homeless community
A partir de janeiro, "Campeão da Carta", David Curtis, diretor da B&M Waste, aprenderá mais sobre as causas dos sem -teto e os problemas que as pessoas enfrentam em um dia de treinamento realizado por crise. O objetivo é divulgar isso de volta aos 280 funcionários de resíduos de B&M para aumentar a conscientização dos negócios sobre os problemas em torno dos sem -teto. Um de seus objetivos é ajudar a mudar as atitudes do público com o problema, comunicando suas causas complexas. "Outra pessoa" e a escala do problema é imensa. Verdadeiramente chocante, não apenas na região da cidade de Liverpool, mas em todo o Reino Unido. Simply a smile and a chat can help those sleeping rough, but there’s much more we can do to help as a business in the region.”
A UK first of its kind, the Homelessness Business Charter has been created with the Community Foundation for Merseyside (CFLM) and Liverpool Parish Church to help people out of homelessness. One of its aims is to help change public attitudes to the problem by communicating its complex causes.
Delegates also heard the compelling lived experience of Karl Smith, who told of his hardship and struggle to escape living on the street.
David Curtis, Director at B&M Waste Services said “236,000 people in Britain experience the worst forms of homelessness. Sadly it’s not always something that happens to ‘someone else’ and the scale of the problem is immense. The business community in the Liverpool City Region is determined to help the public and voluntary sector to tackle this issue, and we are proud to be one of the first to sign the charter with a pledge to help in as many ways we can. We urge other businesses to follow suit”
Jayne Kennedy, Senior Marketing and Social Value Manager said “The statistics on the number of homeless people dying are truly shocking, not just in Liverpool City Region, but across the whole of the UK. Listening to Karl Smith, who talked of his personal experience of homelessness, and help he’d received from Crisis was both heart-breaking and inspirational. Simply a smile and a chat can help those sleeping rough, but there’s much more we can do to help as a business in the region.”
B&M Waste have worked on their ‘Refuse not Refuge’ campaign with Crisis to get the message out to the homeless community that sleeping in a bin when sleeping rough is a potentially life-limiting choice. They continue to provide both recruitment opportunities to those looking to get back on their feet, as well and volunteers for Crisis member events E financiamento para a instituição de caridade.
The event talked about the amazing work the councils, charities and other local organisations are doing individually, and now joining up the dots with involvement of businesses across the region, means this collaboration might just have an impact in achieving the Crisis goal that ‘Together we can end homelessness’ .
