DS Smith and Keep Britain Tidy launch the Green Space Business Award

On Tuesday 28th February, DS Smith was invited to the UK Houses of Parliament to launch the new Green Space Business Award, which has been developed under our corporate partnership with Keep Britain Tidy. Our Bolton and Crumlin sites were also in attendance, as the first winners of the award.

The Award encourages businesses to take more responsibility within their local community by supporting and building relationships with community groups, and in doing so, helping to improve the environmental standards in nearby recreational green areas.

Mark Greenwood, DS Smith Group Health, Safety and Environment Director, addressed the event’s attendees, who included Labour and Conservative MPs, Chief Executive of Keep Britain Tidy, Allison Ogden-Newton and Chair Jim Fitzpatrick MP, along with Chris Worman MBE.



“We strongly encourage other companies to follow our lead by supporting and preserving the parks and green spaces in the vicinity of their operations. Through our partnership with Keep Britain Tidy we have built good relationships with local community groups across the country and have found our volunteer work, on a personal level, to be very rewarding.

“If we all made a small contribution, together we can achieve great things.”

To conclude the meeting, Chris Rowe and Gary Finn from DS Smith Recycling Bolton, and Neil Walding, Plant Manager of DS Smith Packaging Crumlin, were awarded the very first Green Space Business Awards – two plaques which they can proudly display at their sites.

Bolton’s award is in recognition of their continued working relationship with Friends of Longsight Park, and Crumlin’s was awarded following their external site developments, which benefit employees at the site. 

We look forward to awarding many more DS Smith sites with the Green Space Business Award and encourage other external companies to follow our example.