Mannok has been highly commended in the Educational Partnership category of Responsible Business Awards at the Business in the Community NI 2022 awards. The awards recognised that the company demonstrated its commitment to supporting young people and benefiting their aspirations and achievements through its comprehensive educational partnerships within the Mannok Futures Programme.
The prestigious and respected awards ceremony, championing responsible business, took place on the 8th September in ICC Belfast. Mannok attended the event and hosted a range of guests from many of its partnering organisations. Commenting on the recognition Mannok received, the company’s HR Manager, Caroline McCaffrey, said, “We are very proud to receive this highly commended acknowledgement for our work to support young people through our educational partnerships. As a large employer for the Fermanagh / Cavan region committed to supporting young people and benefiting the socio-economic prosperity of the rural area, we have been successfully implementing our educational partnerships for many years.”
The Mannok Futures Programme includes a diverse range of educational collaborations, including three flagship secondary school partnerships. The collaborations, which each have themes ranging from sustainability to business insights, involve cross-curricular support to deliver unique initiatives and help enrich young people’s learning experience while also helping to development facilities in schools.
Another dimension of the Mannok Futures Programme is the successful partnerships with universities and colleges, such as South West College, Ulster University and Queen’s University, to offer tailored and supported placements which complement college-based learning.
Mannok has plans to expand its support for young people in the region as it will bring the number of post primary educational partnerships to five by 2025 as part of its Mannok 2030 Vision, the company’s sustainability strategy.
Mannok has also recently given an insight into their ambitious pathway to net zero in a webinar hosted by Construction Buzz.
Mannok published its 2030 Vision, the company’s sustainability strategy to the end of the decade, earlier this year, which included a detailed decarbonisation roadmap focused on alternative fuels, energy efficiency, alternative raw materials and carbon capture, usage and storage. With nine key projects already underway or in planning stages, the company are actively working with global partners and collaborating with cross-industry specialists to utilise, and help develop, innovative technology in its emissions reduction efforts.
The multi-phase programme sets out to harness natural and renewable energy sources and drive innovation in sustainability to create a closed loop process, which will:
- Replace four million litres of diesel per year
- Decarbonise the production of cement by removing over half a million tonnes of CO2 annually
- Power Mannok’s downstram and related manufacturing facilities with new 150MW of dedicated renewable capacity
Mannok has since published details from the webinar on its website, which can be found at mannokbuild.com/decarbonisation.
