The Wesley Hotel

Social Impact Statements

The Social Enterprise Mark criteria includes a requirement that the applicant can demonstrate that social and/or environmental objectives are being achieved.

In support of this, new applicants and renewing Mark holders must submit Social Impact Statements that summarise their headline activities and achievements, helping show how they are striving to make a difference and stand up to scrutiny of purpose as a social enterprise.

Updated May 2016

1) Eco-friendly programmes and initiatives

At TheWesley, “green” isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a way of life. Our innovative eco-friendly programs and initiatives are designed to protect our surroundings and minimise our carbon footprint. We believe that business ethics are moral judgements about what is right and what is wrong. Although these decisions are typically made on more personal levels, the culture of our entire hotel enterprise is influenced and guided by this way of thinking.

TheWesley has established an Environmental Management System (EMS) in accordance with the requirements of ISO 14001 since 2010 and has been Accredited a quality achievement certificate for its successful implementation of the management system to monitor and reduce the carbon foot print. The Environmental System is aimed to improve the efficiency of the organisation and contribute to a path of sustainable business growth. An internal audit is being carried out from time to time as it is an ISO 14001 requirement to ascertain the extent to which objectives plans and targets have been met in accordance with the EMS.

AJA registrars (Certificate number AJA12/16189) who are the external auditors conducted the 1st stage audit on 16th April, 2012 with the view of having the EMS formally certified. Suggestions and recommendations from AJA registrars as well as the results of the internal audit has been used regularly.

TheWesley hand picks suppliers that are accredited by Fair Trade, environmental, ethical and working for people and planet. The majority of our food is locally sourced from farms outside London and we only use ingredients from sustainable suppliers. We don’t just take our suppliers’ word for it. Instead, we background check every vendor and personally visit the farms.

We have taken necessary steps to improve our water usage efficiency in the bedrooms and other facilities of the hotel. Most of the bedrooms have reducers installed in the toilet flush and we invested in water efficient kitchen appliances. We also encourage a water conservation policy among all staff.

In order to minimize our impact on the environment, we changed our energy supplier to Good Energy, a company with a 0% carbon footprint energy supply as sourced from renewable energy.

For the past three years all food waste at the hotel has been fully recycled, resulting in a 100% reduction in landfill. TheWesley maintains several waste segregation programs to ensure we are maximising waste reduction in all manner of operations.

As a social enterprise, we provide funds to support education and marginalised international students. We all support WWF by contributing funds to their conservation activities.Overall, we put our effort to improve social, ethical and sustainable business causes.

2) Our accreditations

TheWesley was first awarded the Social Enterprise Mark in 2012. The only UK and international certification authority for social enterprises, the Social Enterprise Mark recognises a business or organization that earmarks beneficial social and environmental programs.

Green Tourism, with over 2,000 members in the UK, Ireland and Canada, is the largest and most established sustainable certification programme in the world. In fact, Green Tourism offers credible, trustworthy and independent guidance to tourism businesses wishing to operate sustainably. A Green Tourism award shows that a business has been independently assessed and certified.

We support world wildlife fund Rafiki Trust, London Skolars, The Royal British Legion, etc. just to mention few of them. We also provide funds to the Methodist Church for overseas students support, and direct scholarship support for developing country students - we have housed more than 10,000 students in the past 50 years.

TheWesley gift aids all profit to Methodist Church in Great Britain for its charitable purposes. TheWesley has also been working over the years with the non-profit organisation such as various charities and unions, we offer preferential rates for the meeting rooms & bedrooms.

3) Ethical business practices

TheWesley is registered to the City of London Climate Pledge and the Camden Climate Change Alliance, where it is recognised as one of the 25 best performing companies in the Borough.

TheWesley achievement of Gold Mark from Investor in People justifies that we doing the fair ,ethical and social responsibilities. This is a benchmark of our commitment to training and development.

For the past three years all food waste at the hotel has been fully recycled, resulting in a 100% reduction in landfill usage.

We are proud to support Rafiki trust that support educational projects in the village of Magina in Kenya. Rafiki trust provides a lifeline to the villagers by:

• Running a feeding programme for the children
• Assisting with school uniforms, clothing and school
• Offering vocational training for adolescents, e.g. tailoring, computer skills, helping them to start a money generating trade

We provide scholarship every year for students from developing countries. These students have returned to their home country with improved skill and knowledge to support their community.

Please see our principles and philosophy by following the following link:

http://www.thewesley.co.uk/en/why-we-are-ethical.html