Sustainability

We acknowledge that the work we do impacts the environment, our people and the communities we work in. Across the whole of our organisation, our customers and our supply chain, we’re committed to ambitious sustainability goals.

Helping customers

Through a consistent commitment to sustainability, we are supporting our customers to implement more sustainable, ethical practices. Our expertise in energy efficiency and decarbonisation is being applied across the UK, making our customers’ operations more productive and more sustainable.

Engineering a Sustainable Future: 2023/24 Report Overview

At MARCH®, we are committed to sustainability and engineering progress.

Our 2023/2024 Sustainability Report highlights our efforts to reduce emissions, eliminate waste, and support our people.

Key achievements include a 3% reduction in Scope 1 & 2 emissions, over 90% of waste diverted from landfill, and 35% of our company cars now fully electric.

We are on track to achieve Net Zero Scope 1 & 2 emissions by 2030 and Scope 3 by 2050. Additionally, we have invested in our workforce, with 18% of employees being apprentices and over 100,000 hours of training delivered through our MARCH Academy. We have also seen a 55% reduction in personal safety accidents.

Environmental

Recent highlights:

10% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions
90% of our office electricity now comes from renewables
9% emissions reduction across our company-owned fleet
35% of our company cars are now fully electric

See full commitments here

Social

Recent highlights:

50% reduction in personal safety accidents since March 2020
No RIDDOR-reportable incidents in the current reporting year resulting in an Accident Incident Rate (AIR) of zero
Resourcing of SHEQ professionals across all areas of March
Safety leadership coaching sessions via the EJ Academy
Continued visible safety leadership through ‘Walk the Talk’ initiatives and ‘Talking Heads’ programme

See full commitments here

Governance

Recent highlights:

The implementation of Key Customer Management to ensure we have a close understanding of our customers’ organisations, people, and their short, medium and long term priorities.
Strong and transparent partnership working with our shareholders to build the long-term future of the business
Close working with regulatory bodies to ensure fairness, consistently high standards and compliance
Thoughtful and considerate management of our supply chain while building rigorous quality control processes to guarantee high safety and service levels
The encouragement of a strong employee voice across the business with open feedback, without judgement or criticism

See full commitments here and Directors Statement here

Net Zero commitment

March is committed to achieving zero waste to landfill and Net Zero by 2030, with a key milestone of a 50% reduction by 2025. Our commitments are detailed in our Sustainability Report 2023/24, which sets out our long-term ambitions for a more sustainable future. The report shows that March has already taken extensive action to reduce our environmental impact, including transport energy savings, vehicle tracking systems to help drivers reduce fuel usage and the conversion of the fleet to clean energy. Currently almost a quarter of company-leased cars are electric or hybrid and, by the end of 2025, we expect that 80% of vans will be electric.