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Carbon Capture ®

A low cost environmental programme
for you and your customers that
creates woodland here in the UK.

from the top

REACHING

NEW HEIGHTS

BOSS CEO Phil Lawson reflects on
the year that’s been.

ow – where did 2017 go offering at BOSS/BPIF, with over
Wto? 600 apprentices currently on
It’s been a year of up and our programmes. I’m fascinated
From its launch to the beginning of 2017 the down for me – geographically, to see the investment that
Carbon Capture programme has donated that is. I started the year with is going into developing the
over £500,000 to the Woodland Trust. a visit to the Dead Sea, where next generation of the print
Premier is a major supporter and corporate partner of the I was 430 metres below sea industry and I’m keen that we
Woodland Trust, the UK's leading conservation charity the level – one of the lowest points follow their example and invest
Woodland Trust in its work to plant and conserve native on earth. I then spent time in in good quality skills for the
woodland in numerous locations across the UK. Premier offers
customers the opportunity to buy Carbon Captured products, October visiting Everest base people in our own industry. If
where the CO 2 emissions from the manufacture and distribution camp, where my high point you are considering taking on
of the product has been calculated and an equivalent amount of viewing the peak from Kala an apprentice or have people
CO 2 has been captured by planting native British woodland. Pattar was at 5,550 metres in your business that you
l A demonstration of your company’s responsible above sea level (more about feel will benefit from further
approach to the environment
l Use of the Woodland Carbon logo that on page 7). Never have I development (and who hasn’t?),
l Tree planting events that provide excellent PR and had a year of such extremes! please get in touch so that we
marketing opportunities for you and your customers Fortunately, the job at BOSS can discuss a training and/or an
l Carbon mitigation statements that can be used in was more on a level playing apprentice programme that is
annual reports field. I’m pleased that we have right for you.
started the ‘Leaders of the Are you GDPR ready? If not,
Supporting the
Future’ group who are off to an we have a choice of simple
enthusiastic start representing accreditation solutions that
the next generation of leaders we can offer you – Cyber
of our industry. I still meet Essentials, IASME Governance
people today who hark back and GDPR-Managed and IASME
For further information about the Carbon Capture to Young BOSS and how they Gold Standard Fully Managed
Scheme, please contact your local Premier branch or forged relationships at events – which are designed to let
email carboncapture@paper.co.uk
facilitated by us which have you get on with running your
been useful to them throughout business, while we take the
their careers. Hopefully, our stress out of GDPR compliance.

next set of young leaders will The Awards dinner has now
do the same. been and gone – and our ‘Gem
Follow us a lot about training and of a Relationship’ conference
You’ll hear me going on
leading up to it. We sold out
www.paper.co.uk apprenticeships in 2018. That is of tickets this year and I hope
because we have such a strong that all of you that entered the

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