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Populus Select, a specialist science and sustainable technology recruitment firm, is boosting its eco-credentials with a pledge to plant a row of trees in the Scottish Highlands for each placement it makes.
For every role it successfully fills, the Tees Valley-headquartered business will plant a mixture of native trees - a majority of which are from the appropriately named the Populus genus - in partnership with the charity Trees for Life.
Populus has continued its work supporting its clients in sustainable and net-zero environments, with this tree planting initiative making steps towards offsetting its carbon emissions, while also supporting the important cause of rewilding the Scottish Highlands.
The business has gone from strength-to-strength during 2022, achieving a record turnover thanks to increased overseas instructions and strong investment within the specialist STEM and renewable sectors in the UK driving job creation. It has grown its revenue by 20 per cent and has created three new jobs in the last quarter alone.
Sim Hall, managing director at Populus Select said “As a business working closely with professionals focussed on sustainability and revolutionary green technology around the world, we feel it is right to make further steps to offset our own carbon emissions.
“We chose to partner with Trees for Life because it only uses native trees, grown from seed, in the Scottish Highlands, which is probably the most sustainable way of running an initiative like this. The fact that most of the trees come from the Populus family is a happy coincidence. I am a huge lover of the outdoors and it’s important to me on a personal level that the British countryside is cared for and preserved.
“This has been our most successful year yet, with the business growing both in terms of revenue and also in terms of the number of people we directly employ. With labour market constraints across the world and a focus on investment in green technology, sciences and specialist engineering sector, we hope that by this time next year we will have rewilded the whole of Scotland!”
Steve Micklewright, CEO of Trees for Life, said, “We’re proud to have been chosen by Sim and his team to help Populus Select work towards its environmental targets while enhancing the rural Scottish landscape.”
