Part of the Community
Our goal is to support local communities
Speedy Hire people are part of local communities all over the country. It’s in our nature to join in, help solve the challenges we face today and get ready for the future. That’s why this decade we will continue to harness our ‘Speedy spirit’ supporting our communities to help make a meaningful difference.
2024 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
Download our 2024 Sustainability Report for more detailed information on our Part of the Community pillar.
Our targets
3,500+ volunteering days
per annum
Increase our social value
year on year
1% profit invested
in charitable and community programmes by 2025
Social value through Sustainability
We understand the impacts the construction industry has on the environment and society, and we are working together with our people, our neighbours, and our local businesses to build stronger, more resilient communities and local economies. At Speedy Hire, we believe that society should also profit while business is being done.
Watch our video below on how we are creating social value through sustainability.
Creating Social Value Through Sustainability
Discover how our Decade to Deliver strategy is creating social value.
Highlights FY24
£29 million in social value
a 215% increase in FY2024
£168,158 donated to charities
1% of profit
59% of supply chain are MSMEs
creating £16 million of social value
Creating Social Value
Closer to charities and communities
With colleagues working all over the UK and Ireland we touch the lives of thousands of families and hundreds of local communities. Core to what we do is our responsibility to be a force for good and to have a positive social impact in the communities in which we work, recruit and train. Every year we continue to support our corporate charity partners through donations, fundraising and volunteering.
Harnessing our Speedy Spirit
Every year we support our colleagues to get out and about into the community to support the causes they care about, From marathon relay treks from John O’Groats to Land’s End that raised over £20,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust to local litter picking events.
Boosting local businesses
As part of our commitment to build more sustainable supply chains as a customer, we actively seek to support local businesses. We are proud that more than half of our supply chain spend at 59% comprises micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (‘MSMEs’) equating to £16 million of social value created in local economies across the UK and Ireland.
Calculating our social value
Working with specialist advisor, Thrive, we have adopted a new framework – Impact Evaluation standard aligned to government guidance to systematically and transparently measure the social value we generate.
Our Charity Partners
