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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can cut across almost everything you do and everyone you deal with. You need to think about:

•    The suppliers you choose and the way you deal with them. For example, trading with suppliers who pollute the environment could be as irresponsible as doing so yourself.
•    How you treat your employees. For the responsible business, this means doing more than simply complying with legal requirements..
•    How your business affects your local community and whether you should be actively involved.
•    How what you do affects the environment and what you can do to use resources more efficiently and reduce pollution and waste.

This doesn't mean that you can't run a profitable business. In fact, CSR can help you improve your business performance. By looking ahead, you're ready to cope with new laws and restrictions. You avoid costs such as wasted energy or paying unnecessary waste fees. Perhaps most importantly, you can keep winning business from increasingly demanding customers.

At WL Associates, we think it means to begin with your business needs and to decide on its principles and values. These will include social, ethical and moral areas as well as ones like “the way we do things around here” The key is to start to consider how “what you do” impacts on the stakeholders in your business, customers, shareholders, neighbours and the Community.

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