Sustainable success stories:

Our successes so far

• 100% electric car fleet
• CO2 reduction from 1990 levels: 59% – that's substantially more than most public sector organisations
• onsite renewable energy generation meeting 10.9% of our overall needs
• we planted a forest – Braidwood Forest in Rainham was planted as part of our 150th anniversary celebrations
• continued to maintain ISO 14,001 accredited certification for management functions and 10 high-risk stations
• Walthamstow Fire Station became our first carbon net zero fire station due to the installation of an air source heat pump

Our aims

There are three things we focus on in this area of our sustainable practice:

• community safety: fire prevention, protection and response
• building a fairer society: equality, diversity and social inclusion
• protecting our people: health & safety

Our successes so far

• in response to Covid-19, we launched an online Home Fire Safety Checker that can be accessed by any member of the community
• reached the Achievement level with the London Healthy Workplace Charter
• both the gender and ethnic diversity of our trainee firefighter intake increased, alongside increases in the diversity of our operational workforce across all groups monitored

Using public money sustainably for London

As a public sector organisation, we have a responsibility to make sure you get good value for money by delivering benefits that extend beyond financial savings. This involves:

• paying all contractors at least the London Living Wage
• prioritising spending with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to support the local economy, rather than large businesses and their shareholders

By focusing on these practices, we aim to create positive social and economic impacts, benefiting Londoners and their communities.

Our successes so far

• creating apprenticeships in our workplace, and delivering 237 job starts and 11 apprenticeship starts in 2021-22
• we started using the Social Value Portal, using the National Themes, Outcomes and Measures (TOMs) framework to help maximise the social value added within contracts