Alan Miller

Setting the benchmark in supply chain engagement

Three years ago, we launched our sustainable business strategy ‘Better Places’. The intention was to drive sustainability through every facet of the business, and we developed a set of strategic objectives under four main pillars.

This structure helped guide us and allowed us to view sustainability as a concept and driver for change in areas not normally associated with or impacted by ESG efforts. These included our people development and collaboration with our supply chain e.g.

1. Operations – delivering chemical free cleaning products that reduce plastic waste
2. Colleague training and wellbeing – ensuring a happy, healthy and sustainable workforce
3. Procurement – collaborating with our supply chain for mutual benefit

Our Net Zero journey has not been a straight road and we cannot travel it alone. Our destiny and success are tied to that of our service partners and clients up and down the supply chain.
We quickly realised that we had to adopt a ‘one team approach’ to influence and lead effectively with the help of Planet Mark (our certification partner).

As our data is verified by Planet Mark it aligns to important globally recognised initiatives:

• Science Based Targets Initiative Net Zero Standard
• UN backed Race to Zero

Engaging our supply chain effectively

Only with the support of our service partners could we achieve our Net Zero ambitions – and they theirs. The currency required in our exchanges was data, and data of the correct format, type and quality. 

We also began to see ourselves as the conduit for the exchange of this ESG data up and down our supply chain. Amongst other things, this:

– supported certification

– improved sustainable decision making

– helps move us to NetZero more effectively

The challenge was getting the data from a range of different shaped and sized service partners, some of whom did not have the systems in place to measure and extract the data required. Others had no idea of the importance of Net Zero and implications of not starting a journey or having a plan for achieving this goal.

Creating a supply chain engagement programme

The concept was to create a supplier engagement programme with a requirement to educate, mutually support and ultimately deliver reliable data which is so valuable in supporting sustainable business growth. Our programme is designed to continually evolve, meeting new technological challenges, mitigating risks, and grasping opportunities to be better as we travel towards our 2030 Net Zero objectives. Our Service Partner Data Capture Roadmap began in July 2022, structured to develop our ‘one team approach’, by being transparent and supportive.

To drive the programme forward, we had to achieve buy-in and understanding. In some situations, this meant assisting those smaller service partners by supporting the building of frameworks to ensure their effective data-capture. All this was done in collaboration with Planet Mark. This ensured that what was collected could be effectively used in certification measurement.

The success of the programme has meant that:

• We now have in place a robust process to collect and share data from our supply chain
• We’ve gained client trust through collaboration
• Our Service Partners are more knowledgeable and confident talking about emissions and challenging their suppliers to deliver
• Two service partners (Mayflower and Wessex) joined Planet Mark through this collaborative approach
• We can now provide emissions data for our clients down to a specific building, and for the products we offer

We’re pleased our effort has resulted in winning Best Supply Chain Engagement at the Planet Mark Awards. We continue to set benchmarks with Planet Mark of how and what can be done with a challenging supply chain.

⚽ Charity football tournament hosted by Regular Cleaning ⚽

Raising money for our corporate partner, St Mungo’s.

We’d love to see you and your colleagues be part of our charity football tournament, on 15 September.

We’re putting together a fun Friday evening built around a 5 a side tournament, consisting of teams from our service partners, colleagues and clients.

It’s all in aid of fundraising for our corporate partner St Mungo’s to support the work they do in helping eradicate homelessness in the UK.

And of course you’ll add to your own company’s social value contributions as well.

Want to keep up with the Lionesses? Great!

Here’s how to take part:

1 Confirm your team of no more than 7 players and choose a suitable name OR enter as an individual player and we’ll team you up

2 Sign up for the tournament by registering the relevant donation below on our Just Giving page

            ⚽ Team entry donation of £50

          ⚽ Individual entry donation of £10 pp

          ⚽ Non playing guests entry donation of £5 pp

3 Register your entry once sign up donation has been made on Just Giving by emailing Rebecca Elliott at Regular Cleaning

If you have any questions please email Rebecca.

Player registration deadline is 1 September.

Full event details

•          Regular Cleaning Charity Football Tournament

•          Friday 15th September 2023 / 6:30pm – 11.00pm

•          Goals Beckenham, Elmers End Road, Beckenham, BR3 4EJ

•          Parking available /  Train station next door

•          Bar available and hot & cold buffet supplied

Congratulations to all our Regular Ramblers who took part in the Upbeats Walk over the weekend.

Some much needed lovely weather welcomed the walkers on Saturday morning, as they joined others walking the 9 miles route, raising money for the Upbeats. We’re pleased to say that we beat our fundraising target, collecting £1185.

Thanks to all those who have donated and took part, including our colleagues, and Rob and John from our service partner Mayflower Washroom Solutions. Great work.

Join us as we support Charlton Athletic Community Trust’s Annual Upbeats Walk on Saturday 29th April, in aid of the Charlton Upbeats, a special football team and wider support group of people living with Down’s Syndrome.

The event is a 9-mile walk between the Charlton Athletic FC training ground and their home ground – ‘The Valley’ – and aims to raise funds for the Upbeats and their programme of special activity for the 170 strong group – all adults and children affected by living with Down’s Syndrome.

We have assembled a talented squad of athletic colleagues 🙂 from across our business to form the ‘Regular Ramblers’. They will be walking with Upbeat members, fellow patrons and other fundraisers to raise money for this deserved group of adults and children so they can keep their activity program alive and running for the coming year.

The Upbeats football team plays in the Kent Adult Disability League and were successful in being league winners in their first season. The Upbeats are also 9 times, National Down’s syndrome champions.
As a patron of Charlton Athletic Community Trust we are involved in supporting many of their initiatives across the year and are happy that we can continue to be part of the Annual Upbeats Walk.

PLEASE DONATE IF YOU CAN

We’ve raised just over half (56%) of our fundraising target for this year so far, but still need your support so please DONATE if you can by registering your contribution on the official event page. Even a small amount will be gratefully received and help us to meet our target.

Thank you.

It’s Easter and everyone loves a chocolate egg. So we thought we’d collect a few from round the team and our service partners and donate them to those who would enjoy them the most – children at some of our community partners.

We work with our community partners as we believe that our business is integral to, and should have positive impacts on society and our local communities. Throughout the year we have a calendar of social value activities involving our community partners.

We received an outstanding 306 donations – mostly Easter eggs but a few other treats. This was massively over what we had estimated we would receive – we had set our hearts on 100.

A great big thanks to all our colleagues and those service partners (Wessex, Fab and Tailormade) who donated to our egg-stravaganza.
With this great haul, we decided to split these across the following partners:

Lewisham Hospital Childrens unit
Lewisham Local Community Meal
Trussell Trust through 25 Soho Square
St Mungos via 40 High Holborn’s Easter Egg donations

We hope all our colleagues, clients, service and community partners are having a relaxing Easter.. 🐰