Society

Our Families Matter programme is focused on supporting disadvantaged families in the local areas around our sites with key social issues, helping create opportunities to support their futures. We work with numerous organisations and support many people through our community programmes.

For more information on our work in local communities, visit our Community pages. Here you can apply for grant funding or product donation for your charitable initiative, or find out more about our award-winning School Visitors programme, access our teaching resources and request a visit.

It doesn’t matter where you work or what you do at Warburtons, we’re concerned about the health, happiness and overall wellbeing of every single member of our 5,000 strong family. That’s why we developed Live Well – our very own health and wellbeing programme, designed to offer help to our people to stay in the very best of health.

Through Live Well, our people have access to a range of services and opportunities including onsite nurses, physiotherapy and an Employee Wellbeing Helpline. We also make sure we try to encourage and engage our people in their health and wellbeing by offering a range of balanced nutritious meals in our canteens, providing access to health advice through our charity partner CRUK and getting our people involved in initiatives such as Healthy Eating Week.

Our suppliers are part of our extended family and we believe it is important that we take a collaborative approach to working with them to ensure they understand our values, and that they do business in the right way.

We are committed to ensuring sustainable supply in accordance with clearly defined and monitored ethical standards. Our approach to supply chain ethics is set out in our  Ethical Principles . To help with our supplier due diligence, we utilise the globally recognised platform SEDEX with our ingredient and packaging suppliers. 

We build strong relationships with our farmers to ensure a consistent quality of wheat, as well as a reliable long-term supply. We have developed a sustainable farming plan which focuses on maintaining healthy soil and water, supporting biodiversity, understanding our farmers’ carbon footprint, and engaging them in community investment, and working with our farmers to bring the countryside to life for young people.

By focusing on these four pillars, our business and our farmers can continue to work in partnership for generations to come. To find out more about farming at Warburtons visit our dedicated Farming page.

Warburtons uses only a relatively small amount of palm oil, circa 1,200 tonnes each year – and we work hard to ensure we source the most sustainable palm oil possible by building relationships with socially responsible suppliers. 

We have been an active member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2010, achieving 100% RSPO certified palm supply that same year. 99.95% of the palm oil we use is fully segregated and we continue to work hard to overcome the operational challenges to achieve our goal of a 100% segregated supply chain model.    

Please see our Palm Oil Statement for further information.