community

Wynn Williams & Co is committed to corporate social responsibility. 

Through our community relationships we aim to contribute to the community which we have practised in for the last 150 years.  We aim to build long term partnerships both with our clients and within the community.

Wider Community Involvement

Both staff and partners are involved in governance on a voluntary basis for a diverse range of community organisations.  The depth of our commitment can be seen in the range of organisations involved which include School Boards, Church, education, sport, farming, environmental and heritage organisations, charitable trusts, Community Centres and a Bilingual Day Care Centre. 

Wynn Williams & Co also supports Cholmondeley Children's Home and Anglican Diocese of Christchurch - Bishop's Mission Fund with annual donations and our staff organise annual charity fund-raising events for a range of charities.

Our lawyers are involved with the Christchurch Community Law Centre and NZ Citizens Advice Bureau.

To further our commitment to academic excellence, we offer an annual Torts prize at the University of Canterbury and are currently working with the University to establish an annual Resource Management and Environment Law prize.

We support the exporters in our community by having two of our partners act as judges for the annual Canterbury Export Awards.

Environment

We have a strong interest in good environmental practice and in minimising the environmental impact of our business.  As a commercial office the single largest source of our carbon emissions is electricity consumption.  We are endeavouring to implement electricity efficiencies throughout our office.  We are achieving efficiencies through:

  • progressively replacing single function devices with new multi function devices which combine copying, printing and scanning resulting in energy savings. 
  • introduction of flat LCD computer screens across the firm which use half as much energy as earlier models.
  • lighting used on an "as-needed" basis.
  • programming our after hours air conditioning to work for a maximum of 90 minutes when it is activated. 
  • participating in a recycling programme including paper, cardboard and other recyclable waste. 

We have made presentations to our rural clients advising on the projected impact of climate change in the Canterbury District.

We continue to seek new opportunities to improve our environmental performance.