Virgin Media

At the end of last year, the Retail Communications team brought out the sustainability edition of our quarterly in-house magazine, The Wrap. The new edition featured sustainability facts and figures along with stories on Virgin Media employees who are making a real difference for the environment and the wider community in which our business operates. Six months on, I thought I’d share an update on how the new-look magazine went down.

I'm often lucky enough to be invited to various events and conferences to speak about the Virgin Media approach to sustainability reporting. Even after two years, our decision to ditch the hardcopy report in favour of a more engaging, behind-the-scenes, digital approach is still often commended as innovative and groundbreaking, which is great. Naturally, many of the people I meet at these events do not work in a digital business like Virgin Media, and they often ask me how our approach could work for them. It’s an interesting question, and one I thought I’d reflect on in a blog. Not only this, but having just launched the business and the community phase of the ‘Our digital future’ programme, it felt like a good time to raise the issue. So here are my thoughts on some of the key elements of our approach, and how they might be applicable to your company, no matter what type of industry you operate in…

Virgin Media are listening to what the UK thinks about ‘Our digital future’. Over the past few months we’ve invited digital pioneers and experts, MPs, business leaders and the wider UK public to share their views about the impact of digital technology on people, business and communities. Recently, we turned the focus of the conversation towards the issues that children can face online and we’ve had some really valuable feedback from our experts on the best way to keep kids safe, happy and healthy.

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is not big; it’s massive. As the world’s largest technology show, this is the event where everyone from small Korean start-ups to the likes of Sony and Samsung show off their latest gizmos for release this year. I was lucky enough to go there for the week and while I didn’t manage to see everything (it really is that huge!), I saw enough to make me realise that gadgets and technology are going to keep changing every aspect of our lives, at an ever-increasing pace.

I’m really pleased to announce the launch of the official We’re all ears report, marking the culmination of months of hard work and, most importantly, hard listening!

Hello, I'm Robyn and I work in the Sustainability Team for Virgin Management. I have the privileged role of working on all the things we are doing as a group to contribute positively to environmental and social sustainability. After the success of our Virgin Group Sustainability Report in 2010, we thought it would be good to make a film about how Virgin companies from right across the group are contributing to sustainable lifestyles...

Hello! My name is Frances Clark, and I’ve recently started my new role as ‘Field Logistics Operational Manager’ working to improve Virgin Media’s supply chain. Basically, this means working with all the warehouses across the country to make sure they are getting equipment to customers in the most efficient way possible.

Happy New Year and welcome to 2012 from everyone here in the Virgin Media Sustainability team. If the first few days are anything to go by, this year promises to be even busier (and dare we say more exciting) than 2011. At the end of last year, we asked five leading sustainability thinkers to share their views about sustainability reporting - and we wanted to kick this year off by sharing their insights with you.

Could you make a positive difference in your community in just five minutes? This was the challenge at the heart of our very first Virgin Media Community Week, which took place earlier this month.