We've achieved Gold in the Corporate Responsibility Index - putting us amongst the top most responsible businesses in the UK. And what makes this such a great achievement is that we've improved from Bronze to Gold in just three years.

The Corporate Responsibility Index looks at what businesses do to benefit communities and their environment, taking into consideration work around sustainability, worklessness and many other initiatives.

Group Chief Executive David Cowans: "The Gold award recognises our hard work integrating corporate responsibility into every aspect of our business. It's a fantastic achievement and we will continue to evolve our corporate responsibility agenda in coming years."

With an impressive track record of award-winning programmes, corporate responsibility is at the heart of our business. We've won gold awards for environmental sustainability and tackling worklessness and our DeMonfort University degree programme has won awards for innovation.