SCC's FY22 ESG Report
Introduction from our CEO
About SCC
Our awards, accreditations and memberships
FY22 highlights
The Rigby Foundation Charitable Trust
Environmental
Social
Governance
This year, we have made significant changes in our business. We have refreshed our corporate strategy, purpose, ambition, and values. Our new values reflect our business today, along with supporting the direction of travel for our future and the way we will interact with our stakeholders. One of our new values is responsibility which is an integral element to how we develop and implement our environmental, social and governance (ESG) structure. As part of this approach, we launched our ESG committee. Chaired by myself, it involves members of our Executive Team and subject matters experts from across the business. Our committee meets regularly to discuss and agree how we can continue to develop and enhance our ESG performance. During the next twelve months, we will also be focusing our ESG activities on three principal areas: reducing our environmental impact, investing, and supporting our communities, and continually improving our professional behaviours. Over the last year, Covid-19 impacted many aspects of our lives. With the slowing down of the pandemic, we have fully resumed our ESG activities and implemented a range of new initiatives.
One of these initiatives focuses on our people, who are our biggest asset. Our vision is to be the most employee centric IT systems integrator in the UK. To help us achieve this, we have continued investing in our people activities and conducted our first people survey so we could gain direct feedback on a range of topics. We also developed and introduced a range of diversity and inclusion working groups which involve people from across the business and demonstrates how we embrace our family values. During the year, we began a new charity partnership with United by 2022 who are the official legacy charity of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The charity has invited me onto their Trustee Board and I’ve seen first-hand how they are supporting Birmingham’s young people and communities and how this support will continue once the games have finished. This year, we also became part of the United Nations Global Compact and official supporters of the compact’s ten principles. This declaration builds on our existing commitment of reducing our direct emissions and reaching our net zero target by 2050 as part of the United Nations Race to Zero Campaign. I’m pleased with the progress we have made during the year. We continue to develop and evolve our ESG strategy and making strong commitments to ensure we are being a responsible business.
We are SCC, Europe’s largest independent IT systems integrator. We simplify the complex for organisations across the UK, designing, supplying and managing their IT.
Working across the public and commercial sectors, our range of accreditation and partner status with our vendor partners enables us to provide market leading independent advice to our clients. Our IT transformation and exceptional customer service helps and enables our clients to succeed.
Our Purpose
We help client succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences
Our Ambition
To be the most customer and employee centric IT systems integrator in the UK.
Our Values
Our values are more than words on a poster or coffee mug. They guide what we do and how we do it.
Awards
Green Award from the AV Awards 2021
The ‘Green Award’ recognises our technology recycling services, our environmental accreditations, supplier code of conduct and environmental impact.
CRN Women in Channel Awards 2021
Accreditations and memberships
SCC is an active supporter of The Rigby Foundation Charitable Trust. Founded by our shareholders the Rigby family, it operates on the principle that success in business goes together with putting back into society and communities.
The Foundation is a registered charity operating independently of SCC and invests in causes relating to lifelong learning, health, and education. During the year, the charity donated £725,529, including:
A £200,000 donation to support the SCC Academy which provides in-person digital inclusion training from their facility in Tyseley, Birmingham.
A donation of £129,558 to South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) to support its charitable purposes.
Laptops donated to 1128 Crosby Squadron Air Cadets and the Coventry City of Culture.
A charitable donation of £10,000 to Molly Ollys so they can continue supporting children with terminal or life-threatening illnesses and their families.
£150,000 donated to the Fly Harrier Trust to support bringing the BAE Harrier back once more to the British skies and advancing the knowledge of the public to this most iconic British aircraft.
Further donations were made to several bodies to support ongoing charitable activities including the Royal British Legion, Cranfield University, The Reach Foundation, Coventry City of Culture Trust, Shakespeare Hospice, Royal Air Force Association, RAF 601 Squadron, Guild Estate, Smiling Families, the Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel Trust, and Cotsford Primary school.
