Social Value Policy
Tarmac is the UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business.
Our innovative products and solutions not only deliver the infrastructure needed to grow the UK economy today but also help to create a more sustainable built environment for the country’s long term future.
Prioritising social value is crucial for our business to continue to meet governmental, sustainability and community demands. By delivering impactful social value we will continue to build lasting community relationships, achieve net positive environmental outcomes and strengthen local economies to enable them to thrive. Social value will play a key role in our long-term business success and leaving a lasting legacy for the next generation. This policy is supported by our sustainability strategy, ‘Act’.
Our Vision
Improving our social value footprint through engaging and inspiring to create a positive lasting legacy for people, communities and our environment. We commit to measuring and clearly demonstrating the impact of our social value activities to secure wider social, economic and environmental benefits.
In collaboration with our customers and supply chain, Tarmac is committed to delivering Social Value in four focus areas:
Community Wellbeing
- Volunteering – Providing lasting impact by focusing our activities in the areas with most need, supporting community causes and activities that deliver benefits and address local STEM needs.
- Landfill Communities Fund - Providing local communities access to funding for local investment and good causes.
- Biodiversity - Achieve biodiversity net gain at our sites and contribute to national biodiversity.
Supporting Local Economies
- Supply chain - Engaging with local suppliers to support our operations ensuring goods and services are sourced with careful consideration of their environmental, social, and economic impacts.
- Skills & training – Investing in training employees and supply chain to provide transferrable skills and meet future workforce needs.
- Recruitment – Attract a diverse workforce and champion social mobility through structured work, graduate and apprenticeship opportunities.
Environmental sustainability
It is important we meet demand in a responsible way, helping to tackle climate change, using resources efficiently, and making a positive contribution though the stewardship of our sites.
- Climate action - Tarmac is committed to be net zero before 2050.
- Environmental stewardship – achieve net positive environmental outcomes
- Reimagining how construction materials are used to enhance our circular economy.
See our Sustainability report for more information.
Inclusion and Diversity
- We demonstrate our commitment to inclusion and diversity.
- Inclusion is a core capability.
- Our workplace and culture are inclusive.
- Our workforce and leadership reflect the communities in which we operate.
Our Commitment
We will monitor and report our social value impact annually using recognised performance measures.
We will share knowledge and best practices to enhance standards, effectiveness and continuous improvement in social value outcomes.
We will communicate this policy to our employees, customers and supply chain partners.
This policy will be reviewed, as a minimum, annually.
