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The Gold Award As the most important of all of the categories with relation to planning for the future and continuing to minimise environmental impact, this is the most intensive of all of the categories. The Gold rating concentrates on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Re-Investment across all aspects of the company, product, services and events. CSR is closely linked to Sustainable Development, which argues that enterprises should make decisions based not only on financial factors, but also based on informed information about the immediate and long-term social and environmental impact of their activities. Most large corporations have well established CSR policies. However, this is not the case for the majority of event related businesses. The Gold category does not work on the expectation that any event suppliers will have such a policy in operation, so the purpose of this evaluation system is to look at all areas covered within a hypothetical CSR policy for the enterprise in question. CSR will also take into account Re-Investment, the key fourth element that The Evaluation Process In the initial instance, a company will be asked to produce a CSR and Re-Investment Policy, and report on any existing CSR and Re-Investment activity of the organisation. Guidelines will be clearly outlined for this document, in order for it to serve a practical purpose within an organisations product or service and in order for it to serve as a means of evaluation. As with the Silver category, where a company does not have an existing CSR & Re-Investment Policy or feel confident drafting such a document, On submission of an An assessment report will then be written, outlining the areas that have been taken into consideration, culminating in an assessment of findings and a rating. Costs Initial Evaluation & Rating – £750 + VAT
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has added to the environmentalist’s mantra of ‘Reduce, Re-use and Re-cycle’. 
