Our Ethos

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This is Pro2col’s company ethos. As a small company, we are striving to make a big difference through positive decision-making in every aspect of the business. This involves working with our customers, vendors and partners to do good for the environment, the local community, charities and for our employees.

We've signed up to Support the Goals!

In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 global goals - also known as the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs - as part of a plan to build a greener, fairer, better world by 2030. 

Pro2col has agreed to join the movement and focus our support on four of the goals as a business and as a team. 

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Our Goals

Life on Land

Our company culture is centred around doing the right thing. This fosters a team of healthy, happy staff who enjoy coming into work and feel they are a part of something. Three core attributes make a Pro2col employee…

Honesty: We’re honest and ethical with each other, our customers and our partners. This means doing the right thing instead of prioritising commercial gain.

Excellence: Each person within the organisation strives for excellence in every aspect of their work. Adopting a positive outlook and embracing change is at the heart of the Pro2col workplace culture.  

Teamwork: ‘We’ is much more important than ‘I’ at Pro2col. A fun and collaborative workplace helps us to achieve our goals and build long-term relationships with customers, vendors and partners.

Responsible Consumption and Production

  • We are committed to protecting and preserving the environment. Pro2col employees have all taken steps to adopt green practices and genuinely care about the environment.

  • MD James Lewis is passionate about the environment and doing our bit to combat climate change – and because of that it’s a fundamental principle that runs throughout the business.

    On our 18th birthday. we partnered with treeapp to organise a tree to be planted for every customer, partner, and staff member Pro2col has had over the years, which equates to 1000 trees! But we aren't stopping there.

  • Pro2col’s environmental policy focuses on 3 key areas:

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Reducing Emissions

 We have made environmentally-minded decisions within our office, including switching to a green energy provider, utilising eco-friendly cleaning and office supplies and supporting local suppliers and independent businesses.

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Reducing Waste

We are actively fighting today’s throwaway culture, recognising that recycling is good, reusing is better, but not buying at all is better still.

 

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Inspiring the Community

Although we are playing our part, the positive impact can be multiplied by inspiring the community to get involved. We're a recycling point for other non-household recycling items such as plastic, toothpaste tubes, batteries, vapes and printer cartridges.

Life below water

We are committed to playing a positive role in our local community and building relationships that last.

Pro2col has organised numerous beach cleans to preserve the natural beauty of Dorset’s spectacular coastline, removing everything from plastics, broken fishing lines, food wrappers to bottle caps, lolly sticks,  and hundreds of thousands of nurdles. We use local, independent suppliers and support local schools wherever possible.

Below includes some beach cleans organised by Pro2col. 

Pro2col Beach Clean

September 2024

In October 2024, Pro2col headed to Mudeford Sandspit for a beach clean, removing pieces of plastic, broken fishing lines, food wrappers, bottle caps, lolly sticks, and thousands of tiny nurdles.
Softcat Channel Partner and Pro2col Beach Clean

June 2024

In June 2024 Pro2col were joined by team members from Softcat across the UK, including London, Marlow, Manchester, and the South Coast. Together, in just a few hours, we collected over 10,000 pieces of litter!
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April 2023

In April 2023, Pro2col removed over 2500 pieces of litter and microplastics from the beach, which was then sorted, reported back to the MCS and recycled or binned afterwards.

Zero Hunger

Charitable giving is a key part of life at Pro2col, as well as being fully carbon neutral. We believe that small actions count. Many food banks across the UK were expecting an increase in demand so Pro2col decided to chip in and help those in need.

Throughout October 2019, the Pro2col team and neighbouring businesses collected supplies for the food banks St Joseph’s Church in Christchurch and Immanuel Church in Southbourne. Over the last two years, we’ve also made donations to Christchurch Food Bank and Dorchester Family support.

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Pro2col's Core Values

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