Office Supplies Retailer Drives Business Though Social Responsibility

Small organisations don’t have the large revenues, profits and available cash like the large corporations. This means they have to think hard and be super inventive if they want to impact the environmental and social well-being of the communities in which they operate.

So says Darren Turner (pictured) who has found a way to impact the Lancashire and Greater Manchester communities in the UK.

“We work with charity partners operating in our communities and donate to them a third of the profit that we both generate in doing business together.”

His business, called MY Total Office Solutions, provides cost-effective printer service solutions to organisations and individuals right across the North of England. “Our Infinity home & business printing service has been globally recognised and is the most cost-effective printing service in the world,” Turner states.

Turner now partners with local charities and donates back one-third of the profits of any business they refer to him. “This recurring monthly donation doesn’t just include the business we do directly, it also includes a third of any profit generated by the charity referring other business contacts to us. The aim is to grow this (recurring monthly) donation for each charity partner, allowing them to better support the area of our local communities where they and we operate. The donations collate by the number of monthly colour pages processed and the number of registered telephone handsets. So (through a charity and across their referred business contacts) if we processed 10,000 colour pages and had 50 registered telephone handsets. We would donate to the charity £200 each month, and the donation amount will grow for any additional colour pages and extra handsets added”.

Turner is delighted with the results claiming it is a win-win-win for the referred business, the charity as well as for him. “This is not just great for the charity, it’s also great news for the businesses the charity refers to us. This scheme forms part of their own corporate responsibility program, because (through us) they are also donating to a charity, which in turn is supporting their own local community”.

For decades, it was the large corporations who used corporate responsibility programs as a way of mitigating or reversing the damage caused to communities and resources while carrying out their business.

You can contact Turner at info@mytotalofficesolutions.com or visit his website https://mytotalofficesolutions.co.uk.