New targets

Our targets for 2008/09

Deliver community health promotion activity that aligns to our core healthcare offer, specifically including suncare and Change One Thing schools (smoking, healthy eating, exercise).
Launch new primary modules on Boots Learning Store (our existing health educational website) on healthy eating and physical activity.
Increase the number of volunteers at our support office and for our Look Good...Feel Better and suncare consultant programmes.
Match up to £0.1 million funding for our people’s chosen causes during 2008/09, extending Boots “Make the difference fund” to colleagues from former Alliance Pharmacy.
Increase the number of employees who donate to charity via give as you earn to 5% (4,000).
Develop and encourage Boots involvement in effective retail crime partnerships across the UK, and ensure strategies to tackle business crime are an integral part of all Business Improvement Districts’ business plans.

Deliver an interactive display for science fairs and museums, for example, to promote the concept of “green chemistry” and Boots expertise to a non-technical audience.
Increase the amount of credibly-certified sustainable wood/paper by a further 25% by March 2013 against a 2008 baseline.
As part of our May Day Commitment, reduce the carbon footprint of our stores and retail distribution centres by 30% by 2020 compared to 2005.
Further reduce like for like carbon dioxide emissions by 10% by March 2012 by, for example, expanding the use of double-deck trailers, drag and drop trailers, shared user schemes and backloading.
Support the Courtauld Commitment 2010 target by continuing to reduce retail packaging waste by 2.5% each year.
Against a 2008 baseline, achieve a further 20 percentage point reduction in waste sent to landfill by March 2013 on a like for like basis.

Achieve a fundraising target of £0.5 million for Children In Need.
Raise £1million for our women's cancer charities - Breast Cancer Care and The Eve Appeal.
Conduct a minimum of 250 site assessments for supplier social accountability, probing to the appropriate level in the supply chain.
Demonstrate and communicate the way we integrate “healthy living” into our everyday product development work.

Launch a maternity charter in stores and support offices.
Deliver diversity awareness training to line managers in stores and support offices.
Introduce an e-learning platform for Boots that will offer a comprehensive management learning system – store colleagues to have personal on-line learning accounts by December 2008 and access to at least 50 hours of e-learning material by March 2009.
Carry out a full internal Safety Management Review by the end of July 2008, establishing a baseline from which to produce an integrated health and safety management system for our new retail structure – reviewing the fundamentals of what we do, and building on the best of both. Detailed plans and targets going forward to be reported to the Boots Board.
Raise awareness of Boots employees and managers on mental health issues, primarily related to the workplace but also generally.

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