ESG

We are committed to find ways to reduce our impact on the environment. We have made significant carbon emissions reductions during the past year and are committed to continuing these.

Our move to home working in all offices over the pandemic has reduced our travel related pollution, and improved staff well-being with regards to work/life balance. We’ve taken project work online, using remote systems to manage interactions with our clients which has further reduced travel pollution. Moving forward to a post-Covid workplace, we’ve implemented systems that allow greater flexibility for staff and have an ongoing commitment to support staff to work remotely.

Some of our current environmental initiatives include:

• In some countries there are subsidies available for using public transport or bikes. We promote and encourage these schemes to staff in all applicable offices.
• We have created a “Climate Neutral Website” through a fully traceable scheme that offsets carbon emissions with a project in the DR Congo.
• We have recycling initiatives across our offices including recycling our computer equipment. We actively source and choose recycled stationary and other office supplies wherever possible.
• Our Paris office in France and our Vienna office in the US are “green” buildings.
• We donated to Toilet Twinning: a charity focusing on hygiene education and latrine building in communities without ready access to safe water, sanitation and healthcare.
• We have electric car charging points in some of our office car parks and will be considering hybrid vehicles as lease car renewals come up.

In the UK we are certified to ISO 14001:2015 which is a standard related to environmental management that exists to help organisations minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment; comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmental requirements; and continually improve

1Team - Making a Difference

1Spatial is a team where everyone makes a difference. From our developers, testers and engineers to our consultants, marketing professionals and senior managers, everyone contributes to our success.

As a member of the Geospatial Community, the natural world is an inspiration for the whole of the 1Spatial team.  We know that, together, we can make our world better.  We support our people who each year volunteer their time, energy and skills for global good causes. The Missing Maps Project, which aims to map the most crisis-prone parts of the world, and the humanitarian mapping charity, MapAction are two organisations that are particularly close to our hearts. We regularly participate in local, national and international charity fundraisers. Our team in the UK recently raised money to mark 72 years of the NHS.

Over the past few years, we have raised funds for charities such as Cancer Council, Care International, Red Nose Day, Save the Children, The Trussell Trust, MapAction, Macmillan Cancer Support, Oxfam, Age UK, Philippines Typhoon Appeal, WinterComfort and Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.

Our 1Team have come together to create staff led committees for Social, Community and Environmental initiatives, each working to run schemes and activities which will directly benefit local communities and the world around them. We are very proud of all our staff who volunteer their time, energy and skills for local and worldwide charities and good causes.

We are also passionate about looking after our staff and actively promote the importance of mental health and happiness. Taking the time to be kind to yourself is something we urge all our staff to do and as part of our commitment to their well-being, we have started to roll out the following initiatives across our offices:

• Mental health awareness training
• Mental health first aiders
• Internal events and initiatives to encourage staff to take time out from their working day

We are always looking at ways to ensure equality and diversity across our company and an inclusive, welcoming working environment for everyone.

We celebrate: International Women’s Day, World Food Day, Diwali, Thanksgiving, Mental Health Awareness Week, Earth Day and Health and Happiness month.

Some of the other social activities organised by our 1Team include:

• 1Global Challenge – all staff were encouraged to "Get Active”, “Get Creative” and “Get experimental”
• Creating a 1Spatial Cookbook with recipes from around the world
• Online fitness and relaxation sessions
• Flexible working to further support employees especially during the pandemic
• Regular team meetings and all employee global sessions to help communication and ensure all team members feel involved and part of the 1Team.
• A variety of social activities across the offices for team members to join in quizzes and games (played at a local and global level).

It’s an exciting time to be part of a growing digital economy and data driven sector and whilst promoting the use of data is important, safeguarding the use of location data is absolutely key.  Governments globally have set guidelines around areas such as data access, privacy, ethics and security.   We adhere to these standards globally and good governance over customer data is central to everything we have been doing for a numbers of years.  More and more we work with our customers on their projects directly through the cloud and so we do not have to take local copies of data which improves security around this.  We take significant steps to ensure high security around our IT systems with adoption of security standards such as Cyber Essentials.

In the UK and USA we are ISO 9001 certified. This means that we have stringent quality processes ensuring governance in all our processes, projects and efforts. Quality processes are well documented and followed by all teams.

At 1Spatial we are committed to good Corporate Governance and adhere to the standards contained in the Corporate Governance Code for Small and Mid-Size Quoted Companies (QCA Code).