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BCF AWARDS 2017 Corporate Social Re SME winner: HMG Paints Paint the Town Green Campaign HMG Paints’ “Paint the Town Green” campaign brings colour back to the community of Greater Manchester by utilising HMG’s company values. With Macmillan Cancer Support, HMG have created a long-term partnership to show how businesses can utilise their core business activities to make a positive impact in the community and within the business itself. Using what they know best, HMG have managed to harness their strengths in all areas of their business to support Macmillan Cancer Support. From team building events that raise money for the charity to a dedicated colour collection, to repurposing paints, HMG have it all covered. Congratulations to the finalists What the judges said “HMG Paints’ Paint the Town Green campaign really stood out as being less of an initiative and more of a way of doing business. We were very impressed to see this as an employee led programme with each member of staff actively engaged. It is a great example how CSR programmes can create such powerful team building with community as a cornerstone ethos of the business. In addition to their impressive industry initiatives for paint recovery and supporting local communities in the supply of re-manufactured paint, it is the support of Macmillan charity that so impressed us.” • • • • • • AkzoNobel Decorative Paints UK&I: Dulux Let’s Colour Crown Paints: Putting CSR at the Heart of the Business HMG Paints Ltd: Paint the Town Green Campaign Merck Performance Materials: Responsibility in the Mica Supply Chain Paint 360 Limited: Ticking the Right Boxes PPG: Community Engagement Programme - Judges of the BCF’s CSR Award, HMG Paints have raised over £14,000 Jonathan Tame and Bob Latham through fundraising activities and the Manchester Colour Collection which has been used in projects with property developers within the last 20 months. HMG have also supplied over 100 litres of paint to Macmillan solutions volunteers to paint cancer sufferer’s homes using paints leftover from other projects as they are involved in the BCF’s PaintCare initiative. 24 Covered Spring 2018