Chambers Ireland has opened the application process for the Sustainable Business Impact Awards 2022.
Chambers Ireland stated: "Measuring the impact of specific projects, these prestigious nationwide awards have become recognised as the most prominent awards in the area of sustainability and CSR for over fifteen years.
"The awards have also helped to galvanise very significant investment by the private sector into appropriate projects benefitting the environment, communities, charities and workforces.
"The Awards recognise the meaningful and high-quality work by companies through different award categories, including Environment, Charity, Volunteering, Community, Workplace, and Communication, Sustainable Impact by a Small or Medium Sized Business, and Diversity, Inclusion and Equity.
"The awards are aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs ) and highlight the important role business plays in working towards achieving our goals in this area by 2030. This work is demonstrated in every Chamber community in the country. Over 410 companies have entered over 1,500 projects and won over 250 awards in the lifetime of the awards."
Ian Talbot, Chief Executive of Chambers Ireland, stated: "We have seen hundreds of great companies with different projects receive recognition at these Awards in the past. Those projects have benefitted the environment, communities, staff, charities and people throughout Ireland. While being very proud of being able to host online ceremonies for the last two years, it will be great to meet all the inspiring companies involved in relevant projects again at our first physical event in two years in September."
Margaret Brennan, President of Chambers Ireland, commented: "Chambers Ireland recognises the important role businesses have to play in the area of sustainability and are enabling more companies get involved through our network. As part of our commitment, last year Chambers Ireland launched an SDG toolkit which will help any business start to incorporate sustainability into their day-to-day activities. The toolkit and the awards are just two of many ways Chambers Ireland is helping our members engage on sustainability. These awards do not occur in isolation but are inherently linked to and contribute to our main SDG activities."
The awards are sponsored by BAM Ireland and are run in association with the Department of Rural and Community Development, One4all and the EPA. Applications for the Awards are now open online at Sustainable Business Impact Awards (awardsplatform.com )
