Sustainability

We wouldn’t be anything without our people: our support offices, supply chain teams and store colleagues who change lives on a daily basis.

We want Specsavers to be a place everyone ­– from all walks of life and across the globe ­– is proud to belong.

We’ll do this by providing more accessible careers, better care and well-being programmes, plus greater opportunities for volunteering so that everyone feels valued, supported and able to fulfil their potential.

Specsavers is different. Our unique partnership structure means that every Specsavers store is owned and locally run by people from their own community. They have a special connection to those near them, which ensures that every customer and colleague is cared for as family.

This structure, and our place in the community, gives us a chance to play an even bigger, more responsible role in society. So we’re pushing ourselves even further to make sure no one gets left behind when it comes to better sight, regardless of their circumstances. We want to reach those people that might not be able to access our services in the usual way to help them with any sight challenges that may be impacting their life.

The one thing we all have in common is the planet we all share, we all have a responsibility to reduce the impact we have on our planet, which is why it’s up there at the top of our list for change at Specsavers. After all, without our planet, there’s no us.

The first step on our roadmap to achieve net zero carbon emissions across our global operations and supply chain by 2050 is to reduce our operational (scope 1 and 2) emissions by 50% and our supply chain emissions (scope 3) by 25%, both by 2030.

We have aligned our carbon reduction strategy with science-based targets which give us a clearly defined pathway to reduce our carbon emissions, these have been externally validated with the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) a global body who defines and promotes best practice in carbon emissions reductions and net-zero targets in line with climate science.

We will maximise the reduction of carbon emissions across our global business and our supply chain by procuring the residual carbon we need from renewable sources.