With over 40,000 team members, people are at the heart of our business, and at Whitbread we want to ensure we are a Force for Good. Our sustainability strategy is focused on enabling people to live and work well, while also protecting the environment on which we all depend. We seek to be a positive Force for Good in people’s lives, whether you work for us, are staying with us, or contribute to our global supply chain. Our strategy is underpinned by three pillars, Opportunity, Community and Responsibility.
Opportunity is about allowing our teams to reach their full potential, with no barriers to entry. It includes our work on diversity and inclusion, training and development and team member well-being. The Community pillar focuses on the impact we have local areas, such as volunteering with local charities, looking after our guests through our nutrition programme, or fundraising for our national charity partner, Great Ormand Street Hospital. Responsibility is all about mitigating our impact on the environment, for example through carbon, waste, water and plastics targets, as well as protecting the rights of those that work in our supply chain, ensuring we source our critical commodities responsibly and making sure that we do business in the right way.
Force for Good is our long-established Company-wide sustainability strategy. It matters to us and to our stakeholders, and we think it is a business differentiator. The Force for Good strategy, and the industry leading targets that sit within it are fully embedded across our business and are delivered by our 40,000 team members. Together we are a Force for Good.
At Whitbread, we value difference. Our commitment is to be for everyone, championing inclusivity and driving diversity. We believe in no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition, no matter how you identify, and we aim to
bring this to life through our commitments to diversity and inclusion (D&I)/
In 2016/17, we baselined our operational carbon emissions, shortly followed by a baseline of emissions across our value chain. This allowed us to take immediate action to reduce our emissions. The Whitbread Net Zero Transition Plan (NZTP) is the next step in our journey, outlining our objectives, priorities, detailed plans and projects to reach our science-based targets.