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• Benefits
  

Lead Membership

Lead membership covers:

• One-to-one advisory services on development and implementation of a Corporate Responsibility (CR) strategy across all the pillars. Depending on your company’s needs, our work may cover Community, Environment, Workplace, Marketplace or CR strategy, performance measurement and reporting. Our consultants typically engage with a CR steering group that represents the range of business functions in the member company e.g. HR, Facilities, Procurement, Marketing, and Communications. We offer a bespoke service, driven by business objectives, and our support is not time-limited but is focused on delivering the outcomes and success criteria that have been agreed. For a flavour of the range andquality of our work with members, visit our Inspiring Excellence database for examples of best practice from our members.

• Free access to seminars, workshops and networking events throughout the year. The purpose of these is to build awareness of best practice and provide practical guidance that can be applied immediately in the areas of community, workplace, marketplace, environment and CR reporting. These events are peer to peer and offer members excellent networking, profiling and leadership opportunities. Audiences range from small masterclasses of10 to 15 to large seminars with 50+ attendees and accommodate different staff levels. These events are also profiling opportunities through hosting and/or speaking opportunities.

Events held over the last year included:
- Major Summit: Transforming to a Sustainable Business
- How Corporate Community initiatives help to build and sustain a company’s reputation
- Measuring, reporting & communicating CR
- National Launch of the Smarter Travel Workplaces programme
- Wellbeing in the workplace
- Water management in business
- Managing and motivating employees in difficult times
- How business can help fill the skills’ needs in the Community & Voluntary sector
- Sustainable Procurement Working Group
- CR Co-ordinator National Network Meetings
- Sustainability Post-Copenhagen
- Diversity in the Workplace
- Personal Finance Education
- Launch of exhibition: The Face of Corporate Responsibility in Ireland
- Launch of the Communities and Business Working Together Guide
- Driving change through CR change management course

• CEO events. These are exclusive, high profile events that look to inspire the very highest  level of business leaders to take on best practice lessons in CR. Attendance is free but by invitation only, however speaking opportunities arein demand. Events last year included:

- CEO forum on Climate change
- Seeing is Believing tours – profiling best practice in an area of CR, hosted by a member   company CEO who invites local CEOs to attend.Last year they included a tour of inner city Dublin community projects,led by KPMG, and tours of environmental best practice at Intel Ireland in Leixlip and Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals in Ringaskiddy.

• Publications
- Monthly newsletter with Community, Environment, Workplace and Marketplace news and articles, with front page profile  of member companies
- Inspiring Excellence online database of member company best practice published annually

• Annual membership survey – which aligns our service offerings with the business goals of our members

• Other

- One free link per annum with Schools Business Partnership (SBP) - our innovative education programme. 
- One free place on our current CR training course offering
- Signed Charter of Membership
- BITCI external commentary and analysis on company’s CR/sustainability report
- BITCI has an excellent level of engagement with government at several levels, including ministerial and we represent our members when doing so, including presentations at Oireachtas Committees.