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YMN operates firm ethical standards in its business and employment
practices.
We positively discriminate in our selection of client businesses.
We endorse the work of the Joseph
Rowntree Foundation - one of our major website clients researching
social injustice, poverty, and housing issues.
We have provided free consultancy to the Alternatives to Violence
Project - an international organisation requiring a communications
strategy, and are working likewise for the Earth
Centre.
We
actively support the Local Exchange and Trading Scheme (LETS),
and through our internet cafe support the work of
local mental health groups.
We
encourage local arts development, and actively support York
PhotoArts and York Arts Arena, providing gallery space, performance
areas, and community access to digital imaging equipment. We
sponsor the West
Yorkshire Playhouse.
When purchasing products and services, we seek local businesses
and locally-manufactured products, where possible. Employees
are given financial incentives to travel by public transport,
and parking space onsite is for cycles only.
All employees are given opportunities to contribute to company
policy and development, and benefit directly from YMN's success
by profit share and bonus schemes. A very flat management structure
intends to spread responsibility and encourage individual creativity.
All
office and internet cafe waste is collected for recycling, and
recycled paper and board are used for stationery and promotional
material.
Hippy
radicals? No - modern, professional businesspeople with one
eye on the balance sheet and the other on the social and environmental
consequences of our activities.
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