Corporate responsibility statement

At Garde Uk Ltd, we recognise and live up to our responsibilities to our Clients and wider community, and we commit to conducting our business in an ethically and socially responsible way.

Our responsibility to our Clients

In providing services to meet their needs everything we do must be of high quality. We will create continuous improvement through a comprehensive performance management framework. We will endeavour constantly to deliver best value and will innovate continuously to reduce our costs in order to maintain reasonable and competitive prices. On a daily basis we will demonstrate that we care passionately about service and will earn our customers trust as people they can rely on to deliver outstanding performance. In so doing we will support our customers reputations and our own.

Our responsibility to our Staff

We are responsible to the men and women who deliver our service and who we entrust with our business and our good name. Every employee/self employed worker and sub contractor must be considered as an individual. We must respect their rights, their diversity and their dignity and recognise their merit. There must be equal opportunities for employment and for development and advancement for those qualified. We will encourage them through training and recognition to exemplify excellence in their respective jobs. They must feel free to make suggestions or complaints and report suspected misconduct. They will work within an organisation that is run by accountable leaders who are competent and fair. In this way we will attract, retain and keep motivated the best people in our sector.

We have a responsibility for the ethical and socially responsible conduct of our business. We will comply fully with the spirit as well as the letter of all relevant legal and regulatory requirements and act as a good corporate citizen. Our policies and procedures will conform to recognised best practice in corporate social responsibility and governance and will conduct our business with honesty, integrity and transparency.

We have a responsibility to safeguard the health and safety of our employees, self employed workers, customers and premises where we are employed. We believe accidents are preventable and we are committed to achieving injury free workplaces and encouraging and supporting our employees and sub contractors.

Our responsibility to our Community

We are responsible to the communities in which we conduct our business to behave as good citizens, to minimise any disruptive effect of our or our clients operations, to support community endeavours and good causes and to make a positive impact. We are responsible to the wider community to minimise the environmental impact of our business by reducing our consumption of resources and the waste we produce. We will continuously find innovative ways to help our customers to improve their own environmental performance.

Our responsibility to our Suppliers

We have a responsibility to treat our suppliers and business partners as we would wish to be treated as customers.

Suppliers must have the opportunity to make a fair profit within competitive pricing and to be paid promptly according to mutually agreed terms.

We also have a responsibility to ourselves, and our Client and to maintain sound finances, return a fair profit and invest for the future.