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- The Acumen Group of tomorrow will be expected to thrive in two ways. It must be financially successful, but it also must be seen to have a positive and meaningful relationship, with all its stakeholders and the community in which it operates.
- Like all businesses, the Acumen Group wishes to achieve commercial success. However, the way this is achieved is very important to us. The Acumen Group is strongly committed to the principle that our business goals will be best achieved, when we act ethically and with honesty, integrity, openness and fairness in all dealings with all our stakeholders.
- The Acumen Group wishes to live up to these values by building a strong relationship of trust with these stakeholders and to ultimately build and protect our reputation.
- Corporate Social Responsibility is very important to us. It reflects the way we have always conducted business and underpins our core business values.
- A strong position on CSR also allows us to position ourselves as an employer of choice in the financial sector, to both our current and prospective employees. We wish to ensure we can keep attracting and retaining the very best employees and our friendly, professional, ethical stance in everything we do, continues to be a major factor in joining the Acumen Group.
- Finally, by relating our CSR activities to the communities where we do business, we aim to make them better places to live and work in. Our aim is to foster good relationships with those communities and manage responsibly the impact our operations have on the environment.
Group Managing Director
The four charities we are supporting during 2008/2009 are:
Total amount raised during 2007/2008: £12,000
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