Carphone Warehouse 2016 Annual Report Download - page 35

Dixons Carphone plc Annual Report and Accounts 2015/16
Strategic Report
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The Dixons Carphone Foundation
(‘Foundation’)
This fundraising account was established under the Charities
Aid Foundation (registered charity number 268369) for the
benefit of the charity or charities selected by Dixons Carphone
and approved by the Charities Aid Foundation. This account
was set up post-Merger to deliver our ambition of improving
lives through technology and facilitates employee
match-funding applications and one-off donations to
emergencies and disaster funds.
In July 2015, senior Dixons Carphone executives took to the
tennis courts for a charity tennis tournament at The National
Tennis Centre raising £62,781 for the Foundation. The
Foundation is also funded through our handset recycling ‘zero
value’ Take Back scheme. In 2015/16 we donated £161,725
through the Charities Aid Foundation to a variety of causes
including Techknowledge for Schools and Get Connected.
The DSG international Foundation is a charity in its own right,
registered with the Charities Commission. Within 2015/16,
£75,000 was transacted through this Foundation as part of
our fundraising commitment to Children in Need. For 2016/17
we will continue to operate charitable activities through our
fundraising account established under the Charities Aid
Foundation.
Other charitable support
We support other charities and local causes by match-funding
the amount of money an employee raises for their chosen
charity by up to £100 or £300 for a team fundraising for the
same event. In addition, many colleagues raised thousands of
pounds via a variety of fundraising events such as the London
Marathon, football tournaments and fun days. During 2015/16
Dixons Carphone employees also donated £42,542 through
Give As You Earn, benefiting a wide range of local and
national causes.
Outside the UK, Elkjøp continues to support the Red Cross
Water for Life (Vann for Livet) project and donated
NOK 287,000 (£23,528) to this charity during 2015/16.
Environment
We are fully committed to meeting our environmental
responsibilities and limiting the impact of our operations in a
way that is both practically and economically feasible. We are
working towards best practice sustainability with minimal
waste and optimal efficiency.
Energy management
In 2015/16 we combined the reporting platforms and energy
management processes of the legacy Dixons Retail and
Carphone Warehouse businesses. Our energy consumption
monitoring platform reports the half-hourly electricity data for
all our stores in the UK. This allows us to monitor our sites
accurately, minimise wastage and optimise our efficient use
of power. Supporting contracts have also merged to ensure
our meter operator (MOP/DA/DC) and bureau services are
aligned across both the Dixons Retail and Carphone
Warehouse estates.
As with previous years, our energy efficiency programme
continues to utilise internal funding for energy efficiency
projects. We continue to explore new technologies and
advanced strategies to assist in our programme of energy
reduction and through 2015/16 a further £1.3 million has
been invested in new energy efficiency initiatives.
LED lighting has featured heavily in our 2015/16 energy
efficiency programme and is delivering excellent results
through energy savings and improvements to our shopping
environment. 19 stores and offices in two distribution centres
were converted to LED lighting during 2015/16 along with
our Retail Support Centre in Acton and one of two buildings
at our Newark Distribution Centre. LED lighting is the standard
technology adopted in all new stores.
Energy efficiency projects have been completed in an additional
12 stores to further optimise our energy usage which include
fine adjustments to temperature set-points, tuned heating and
lighting strategies, and the installation of lighting controls.
The resulting reduction in our energy consumption from the
above initiatives will be approximately 4,300 mWh per annum,
reducing our carbon emissions by over 2,200 tonnes of CO2
in the next year.
In collaboration with our landlords, roof-mounted Solar
Photovoltaic (PV) installations have been successfully
completed at two large retail locations in Coventry and
Southampton and our water leak detection programme
continues through consumption analysis to highlight
irregularities and ensures optimum efficiency.
Energy efficiency initiative
Dixons Carphone is delighted to have been once again
selected to participate in the Department of Energy & Climate
Change – EDR (Energy Demand Reduction) pilot scheme,
phase 2. Similar to phase 1, this initiative is linked to the large
scale roll-out of energy-efficient LED lighting to our second
750,000 sq ft national distribution centre building in Newark
and represents our largest investment in a single energy
efficiency project to date. Completion is expected by
September 2016.
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