Sustainability in Business: New corporate responsibility support service for SMEs

Launched last week, Responsible Business for SMEs is a new service offering by Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) aimed at supporting Irish SMEs with their responsible and sustainable business practices.

Tina Roche, chief executive, BITCI
Tina Roche, chief executive, BITCI

“BITCI is Ireland’s only network dedicated to responsible business,” said Tina Roche, BITCI’s chief executive.

“For the past 15 years BITCI has primarily been working with large organisations to manage, measure and communicate their corporate responsibility practices. As our vision is to have all businesses in Ireland responsible and sustainable, we are now working with small, medium and micro-enterprises (SMEs),” said Roche.

“There are an estimated 200,000 SMEs in Ireland, ...