Levelling Up Impact Report

Rt

Hon

Justine

Greening, Former Secretary of State for Education, Chair - Purpose Coalition

Considering the external challenges facing businesses in the current economic and social climate, the continued and accelerating focus on purpose for so many businesses across all sectors is inspiring.

These challenges are highlighting the need for businesses to have a detailed and thoughtful plan on how to best spread and equalise opportunity.

Too frequently, where someone starts off in life is often where they end up. This unfortunately has only been exacerbated by the issues experienced by so many today, presenting two significant challenges facing organisation’s and policymakers moving forward - ‘people’ and ‘planet’.

More and more businesses are recognising their power in these areas and are seeking to bring about meaningful and purposeful social change from the ground up. With the most ambitious of these organisations seeking to truly affect lives in the communities they operate in, as well as for their customers and employees.

Tarmac is one of these organisations. Through an acknowledgment of its influence and the pledge inherent in its desire to go even further, Tarmac is taking on the responsibility of affecting change head on - and is encouraging other businesses to do so. Only through the action of businesses, across the wide range of sectors, can effective change truly be made.

Tarmac is committed to measure and build upon its impact, ensuring its purpose contributes towards boosting social mobility for all and a successful, growth-based net-zero economy. As the UK’s leading construction materials company, Tarmac can, and does, play a central role in both of these hurdles facing current and future generations.

Through its commitment to both ‘people’ and ‘planet’ as two of its three foundational pillars, Tarmac has committed to the overarching goals of both social mobility and levelling up.

Tarmac’s ‘Early Careers Support Plan’ is not only recruiting young, often more disadvantaged, individuals into the business but is supporting them to get on and excel in whichever area they feel their skillset is best suited.

The nurturing of employees through personalised support plans, ‘buddy’ mentoring, and retraining opportunities is a working example of how a large business can produce social value through employee engagement and development programmes.

Tarmac also delivers on its organisational ‘planet’ pillar by leading the way in the construction industry, prioritising cutting-edge solutions to the climate-based challenges society faces.

The Purpose Coalition welcomes the comprehensive work Tarmac is already doing and looks forward to working with the organisation and developing its purposeful impact.