Environmental Impact Reduction - ISO 14001
Managing the environmental impact of our working practices is one of the challenges we face as a company. We have recently been assessed and certified as meeting the requirement of ISO 14001 - for which we are continually looking at ways in which we can conserve energy and minimise waste in all activities that we undertake. Our objectives include:
- Effectively managing our sites within our limitations to conduct environmental awareness and maintain safe environmental practices.
- Considering key suppliers' environmental policies and credentials as part of the process for evaluation and selection.
- Raising and maintaining a high level of understanding of, and participation in, environmental best practices by all staff and suppliers.
- Utilising and promoting the use of recycled materials whenever possible, and ensuring that materials are disposed of in an environmentally safe manner at the end of their useful life.
- Working with our staff and suppliers to ensure that all waste is disposed of in line with legal and environmental requirements.
Further Activity
Chapman Freeborn has also asked how we can make a further difference in terms of carbon offsetting or similar activities.
We are monitoring developments in carbon offsetting closely. It is an industry which is unregulated and it remains almost impossible to calculate carbon offset costs in the context of our wide-ranging charter activity and the scope of aircraft used. With this in mind, we have no current plans to introduce such a scheme.
We want to make a difference by supporting tangible projects that deliver direct benefits, rather than donating to commercial schemes with high administrative overheads.
Our intention is to contribute a percentage of our annual profits to support worthwhile projects that the board judge to be of merit and that will make a real difference in communities.
We hope you will join us in supporting these causes.
Estelle Trust
The first organisation we have chosen to support is the Estelle Trust - a registered charity promoting wind pump projects in rural Zambia which are not only environmentally friendly, but have a dramatic impact in the communities in which they have been installed.
Harnessing the power of the wind, clean water is pumped for irrigating subsistence farms and for the benefit of communal facilities such as schools, clinics and orphanages.
- A project which has huge benefits for communities made poor by the ravages of HIV/AIDS, deforestation, and lack of basic utilities
- Wind is a natural and renewable resource and the wind pumping water requires no fossil fuel energy - carbon neutral process.
- Most of the communities in this project are using conservation farming techniques which increase yields by 40% from the same land utilization
- Arrests the process of deforestation and soil erosion
Less than 50% of the rural population of Zambia has access to clean, sustainable water supplies. The rectifying of this situation in many countries across the globe is one of the key Millennial Development Goals and the reason why the UN declared 2005-2015 to be the "Water for Life" Decade for Action.
With the help of a contribution from Chapman Freeborn and its clients the initial programme of installations will be rolled out in 2008.
Make a donation
Each individual wind pump project costs the Estelle Trust approximately $20,000
We encourage our charter clients to support this initiative by donating either a full wind pump or making a contribution towards the sum of a project (see below for breakdown of costs)
- 100% of every donation goes to the costs of manufacturing and installing, there are no administration fees
- All contributors will receive a six-monthly update of the Estelle Trust's work in Zambia
- Groups/individuals donating a full installation will receive details of the community which they have endowed with a proper water supply and photos of the project implementation
To arrange your donation please email info@chapman-freeborn.com
For the latest report on the status of the programme and installations (Dec 2008) please click here
Breakdown of manufacture and installation costs:
| Pump rods and pipes |
US$ 2000 |
| 12 metre tower |
US$ 3500 |
| 30,000 gallon ground water storage tank |
US$ 3-4000 |
| The drilling of a bore hole |
US$ 4-5000 |
| 5 metre sail head and tail head |
US$ 6500 |
Registered Charity No: 1101299. For more information please visit www.estelletrust.org