Making a Digital Difference

Our goal is to create sustainable growth through innovation and investment in our people, products and services, partnerships, and processes, operating in an open and transparent culture where we live by our values.

At Stone Technologies Ltd, a Converge Company, sustainability is one of our core values. Our strategy focuses on environmental,  social and our Corporate Social Responsibility. We support every strategic focus with inclusion, integrity and commitment. Our sustainability framework “Making a Digital Difference” reflects our commitment to sustainability throughout all our business activities including providing award winning IT Circular Economy solution, Zero Waste accreditation and closing the digital gap.

As a business, we have focused on supporting the climate, our community and customers and have planted over 20,000 trees around the world in partnership with our clients and Ecologi. We are proud to the winner IT recycling centre in the UK with Zero to Landfill accredited, ensuring our circular solution leaves no waste behind.

We partner with two selected charities for two years nominated by Stone colleagues, dedicating our efforts behind that charity to help their cause. Each of our colleagues has three days annually for charity and community projects each year. Since 1991, we have supported numerous charities through donations or volunteer days.

In 2021 Stone invested in our Social Value calculator, this has identified and generated over £376 million in social value, including 4500 hours of volunteering and over £687,000 in donations.  We share this information with a bespoke report for each customer, showcase the positive impact by working together, delivering positive social impact to their community and benefit to the environment.

Our services extends beyond IT procurement and circular IT Solution, with a team of experts to support customers to maximise their IT performance in the public and private sector. Our highly skilled consultants offer guidance on cutting-edge hardware and software solutions, either directly to customers or through frameworks. Our UK wide technicians ensure the smooth running of devices with supported by a UK based repair and customer team team.

Net Carbon Zero

We are proud to join over 20,000 organisations in the UN Global Compact – the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. It helps companies align their strategies and operations to the UN’s Ten Principles on human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. Joining means we’ve made a commitment to operate in line with the Ten Principles, support society, embed sustainability and report on our efforts, and membership means we can network with other sustainability leaders, improve our knowledge, and share the benefits of newfound partnerships with our customers.

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Circular Economy

We deliver a circular IT solution at every stage of the asset lifecycle. We provide a fully circular economy solution with our 360 App enabling surplus IT equipment to be reused and recycled with full data protection and Zero to Landfill commitment.

Zero Waste

We are reducing our waste and you can help too. We will continue our commitment to be Zero to Landfill and to be single use plastic free.

At Stone we valorise your redundant IT equipment, enabling devices to be reused or recycled, empowering customers to access IT equipment at multiple price points from our e-commerce site to Stone Refurb and providing helpful financial package solutions.

Through small changes from carefully designing our packaging to supporting local communities and working together to reduce our carbon footprint, we can take big steps to Making a Digital Difference and reducing waste.

Sustainable Procurement

We design IT devices that are made to last, with responsible sourced components and caring for the people who make help in our supply chain. We will always drive sustainability with our supply chain. We have a dedicated UK based repair and maintenance team to ensure your equipment is working at its optimum level. We have a professional local team based in the UK ready to support your customer needs and technical support. We work with all members of our supply chain to ensure they are supported and meet our corporate social responsibility standards.

Wellbeing and Engagement

At Stone we support employees and embrace diversity.

This goes beyond policies and procedures to nurturing a culture of inclusivity and engagement. From comprehensive training programme including apprenticeships, to volunteer days and community engagement we support every employee.

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Environmental Protection & Biodiversity

Our operation will ensure a healthy environment and increased biodiversity. We minimise our environmental impact with ISO 14001 and consider the environmental impact on our activities including logistics and recycling. We have partnered with the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, which protects wildlife in 43 nature reserves and has planted over 9 million trees. We've also collaborate with Ecologi, who plant trees on behalf of customers who use the Stone 360 app - and we've planted 20,000 trees thanks to customer recycling collections.

Protecting Human Rights

At Stone we support communities and individuals to ensure equality of opportunity and access. This is from basic needs such a living wage, no zero hour contracts to zero tolerance to modern slavery and supporting our supply chain to protect the human rights of their colleagues. We are a disability confident employer and promote opportunities to all. We embrace the inclusive software that can support additional needs and working closely with charities such as Family Fund enable the world of technology to open up to families and communities.

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Closing the Digital Gap

At Stone as a leading IT provider we recognise the benefits that technology can bring and also realise that these benefits are not immediately available to all, whether this is lack of hardware, infrastructure or knowledge. Working closely with community groups and charities we are looking to close that gap enabling people to reach their full potential.

Sustainable Solutions

We believe in embracing innovation and providing sustainable solutions to all stakeholders.

We take the time to understand your requirement and deliver innovation with integrity. Working closely with the leading providers of hardware and software we can tailor a bespoke solution to meet your specific need.

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Social Value

We are delivering social responsibility through our actions and measure and monitor our delivery of social value. At Stone we have invested in a social value calculator that streamlines, captures and showcase the social value generated from your engagement and our commitment to corporate social responsibility.

We can measure our impact for customers or communities whether this is using local suppliers, training apprenticeships, fundraising through our charity committee, volunteering, or recycling through our 360 App enabling and provide bespoke reporting.

Working in Collaboration

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SME Climate Hub Committed

The SME Climate Hub is a non-profit global initiative that empowers small to medium sized companies to take climate action and build resilient businesses for the future.

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Microsoft Partner Pledge

Our Partner Pledge contains a simple promise: we'll work together to make digital innovation a force for good. So let's grow more tech talent, enhance diversity and inclusion, and help to deliver a sustainable world.

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HP Amplify Impact

HP's Amplify Impact™ program extends HP’s Sustainable Impact strategy and invites partners to drive meaningful change across the global IT industry.

Stone are delighted to be the UK's only HP Amplify Impact 5-Star partner.

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CDP Disclosure Insight Action

Through disclosing to CDP, companies, cities, states and regions are increasingly recognizing the benefits of taking early action to tackle climate change, deforestation and water security, and the risks of continuing business as usual.

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Talk to us today if you want a circular IT partner that takes sustainability as seriously you do

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