National Corporate Responsibility Week 2009

Business in the Community Ireland holds third annual National Corporate Responsibility Week (October 12th-16th)

National Corporate Responsibility Week is a unique initative led by Business in the Community Ireland and its member companies. The week-long series of events aims to highlight key issues on CR practice and how they affect business as well as showcasing best practices from
our member companies

This will be the third year of the awareness campaign and this year's theme will focus around Rebuilding Ireland's Corporate Reputation.

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PUBLIC EXHIBITION - THE FACE OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY IN IRELAND-OCTOBER 12TH-16TH
Location: CHQ (River side entrance-beside Jury's Inn) IFSC, Dublin 1.

NEW: Exhibition now available online. Click here to view

Corporate Responsibility initiatives work effectively in a company when employees are actively engaged and understand the importance of ethical and responsible business practices. Therefore we are delighted to hold Ireland's first ever public exhibition on corporate responsibility (opens from Wednesday Oct 7th to Friday 16th). This photo exhibition will showcase employees from each of our member companies who epitomise corporate responsibility in their day to day roles. The participating members in the exhibition are Abbott, ACC Bank, Boots, CPL, CRH, Diageo, eircom, ESB, Glanbia, IBM, Intel, Janssen, Irish Life & Permanent, KPMG, Manpower, Marks & Spencer, Microsoft, National Irish Bank, Oracle, Pfizer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sodexo, Ulster Bank, Vodafone and Wyeth. Photography by Kevin Fox.

MONDAY OCTOBER 12TH - CR MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS DAY
Launch - Online searchable database of Best Practice in Corporate Responsibility.

We will be launching our database of ‘Inspiring Excellence' - a collection of over 200 best practice examples in corporate responsibility. In addition, we will be premiering three new videos showcasing sustainable corporate responsibility in our members Eircom, ESB and Pfizer.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 13TH - WORKPLACE DAY
Seminar-Managing and Motivating Employees in Difficult Times'
Location: Kindly hosted by BITCI Member Hibernian Aviva
Audience: Member companies/invited guests only

This practical workshop in partnership with Great Place to Work will provide innovative ideas for motivating staff in a climate of budget cuts and negative messages. For more information, contact Elaine Stephen on 01 874 7232 or estephen@bitc.ie

EPIC Programme Graduation Event
Location: Dublin city centre hotel
Audience: Minister for Integration John Curran T.D, EPIC clients and invited guests

Our EPIC programme assists immigrants to gain employment or further training and education. Minister Curran will present the latest 100 EPIC graduates with their certificate of completion at this special event on Workplace Day.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14TH - MARKETPLACE DAY
Workshop-Best Practice in Sustainable Procurement
Location: Kindly hosted by BITCI Member ESB
Audience: Member companies/invited guests only

This seminar will feature presentations from leaders in the field exploring the current issues and challenges being faced in sustainable procurement. For more information, please contact Darina Eades on 074 938 6713 or deades@bitc.ie

THURSDAY OCTOBER 15TH - ENVIRONMENT DAY
CEO Forum on Climate Change
Location: Collins Barracks
Audience: CEOs-by invitation only

We will be hosting Ireland's second ever CEO forum on climate change. This will see over 100 CEO's come together to discuss what Irish business can and should be doing to have an impact on climate change with expert presentations from ESB, Intel and M & S. For more information, please contact Tomas Sercovich on 01 874 3811 or tsercovich@bitc.ie

FRIDAY OCTOBER 16TH - COMMUNITY DAY
Launch - 'Community Impact Map'

We will use this day to highlight our member companies' community activities around the country by launching an online resource on our website.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Our Members' CR Weeks
Each year some of our members get involved in our National Corporate Responsibility Week by undertaking their own activities themed around the areas of workplace, marketplace, community, environment and CR management and communications. We are delighted that this year a record number of our members are engaging and running a number of activities both internally and externally during the week. These include Abbott, AOL, BT, Cara Partners, Hibernian Aviva, IBM, Intel, KPMG, Meteor, Sodexo and Ulster Bank, We wish all of our members the best of luck with their own CR Week activities.

Our sister organisation, Business in the Community Northern Ireland will be holding their first ever Corporate Responsibility Week from 2-9th October. Visit www.bitcni.org.uk for further details.

OUR SOCIAL INCLUSION PROGRAMMES
Business in the Community Ireland in addition to its work on advising members on corporate responsibility also run a number of innovative social inclusion programmes focusing on education and employment. These programmes are as follows: Schools' Business Partnership, Linkage, EPIC, Ready for Work, The Mentoring Service and Prisons Project. For more information on the programmes
Find out more our programmes