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We aim to:
- Provide education and information on issues that affect the communities within which we work.
- Ensure that we provide career opportunities and training for local people without prejudice against age, sex, race or religion, while ensuring we meet our cultural and social obligations to our service users.
- Actively seek ways to make a positive contribution to the environment utilising best practice within branches and by helping both staff and service users to find ways to reduce their carbon footprint.
Mears commitment to care goes further than its care for older and vulnerable people; it encourages local branches and local staff to get involved in their local communities and to support wider issues that may affect the people we care for locally.
We ask staff to get involved in local projects that bring benefits to many people and which help create better mutual understanding between different age groups.
Because most of our service users are older people a number of our community programmes are designed to support their specific needs.
As a group we are keen to promote measures that keep people living safely, healthily and comfortably in their own homes for as long as they wish to do so.
We do this with practical help such as distributing bogus caller cards, handing out safer slippers, running care and repair weeks and providing thermometers.
We also ensure our care staff are given the information they need to identify any potential dangers or hazards and we distribute information locally to the wider public.