Corporate Social Responsibility is core to the firm’s ethos.

In 2007 we commissioned independent consultants to report on our environmental impact, focusing on stationery, waste, energy, water and transport. The implementation of their recommendations – 22 in total – has led us to change our suppliers for cleaning, water, coffee and recycled paper.

The firm is backing London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s ‘Living Wage in London’ scheme, an initiative in which employers commit to paying their London staff significantly above the national minimum wage, in recognition of the higher cost of living and working in London.

We have changed our cleaning suppliers as part of our commitment to ensuring that all services at our premises are supplied by organisations who themselves have a strong environmental commitment and specifically subscribe to the living wage scheme.

Bottled water for our client meeting rooms is supplied by Belu, an environmentally responsible company that devotes all of its profits to fund water projects in the UK and abroad. Belu sources all of its water in the UK, thus reducing the environmental impact of its supply chain.

We use Fairtrade coffee throughout the office and we only use recycled paper in our printers. When we commission any new printed materials, such as newsletters and brochures, we ensure that they are printed on recycled paper.

We have extended our already extensive recycling schemes to cover paper, glass, tin, plastic, Tetra Paks, batteries and cartridges.

We work with our landlord to encourage them to supply green electricity to the building and have movement activated lighting and hand washing in all areas.

We encourage bicycle use for commuting to our offices by ensuring extensive and secure bicycle storage, free use of showers and offer staff the benefit of the Government's subsidised cycle purchase scheme.

We also offset our total energy and transport carbon footprint – 351 tonnes of CO2 for the last year – through a contribution to a carbon offsetting scheme.