Mission Statement

A Community Media Company

Our aim is to serve local communities by meeting their needs for local news, information and advertising services through a range of media including print and digital channels which together achieve unparalleled levels of market reach.

Carbon Footprint

The Group established its Carbon Footprint Taskforce in 2008. This taskforce developed the Group’s environmental policy and is responsible for co-ordinating the Group’s activities in this area.

The aims of the Carbon Footprint Taskforce are as follows:

• Establish Group policy and objectives
• Promote the general aims of “reduce, reuse, recycle”
• Work through the established Employee Forums
• Co-ordinate Group wide initiatives
• Agree, under the auspices of the Newspaper Society, a standard method of measuring the Carbon Footprint (Scope 2) and seek to reduce this (base year 2006) by 25% over the next 5 years
• Run an annual Group Environmental Award

The Group continues to work in partnership with Dell, its principal supplier of IT equipment, to develop a disposal channel for redundant IT equipment.