{"id":25292,"date":"2022-05-12T16:36:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T15:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locksmith.works\/?p=25292"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:40:41","slug":"giving-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locksmith.works\/giving-back\/","title":{"rendered":"LockSmith is giving back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When we set up&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/locksmith-consulting\/\">LockSmith<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAG4HDkBl2zEps1kOTVTtYtm0I1CbdpYGq8\">Alex O&#8217;Rourke (nee Smith)<\/a>&nbsp;and I wanted to do things right. So we partnered with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/one-percent-for-the-planet\/\">1% for the Planet<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/sustainably-run\/\">Sustainably Run<\/a>&nbsp;to make sure that we are giving back. Here&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve achieved in the past year &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; We&#8217;ve donated 1% of our gross sales to 1% for the Planet and have selected for this donation to be sent to the amazing people at <a href=\"https:\/\/fareshare.org.uk\">FareShare<\/a>.  They tackle hunger and food waste.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we work with Sustainably Run to plant a tree for every delegate on one of our courses and every client who meets with us.  We&#8217;ve planted over 600 trees and counting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/locksmith.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sustainably-run-certificate-web-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Sustainably Run Certificate\" class=\"wp-image-25294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locksmith.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sustainably-run-certificate-web-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/locksmith.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sustainably-run-certificate-web-980x980.png 980w, https:\/\/locksmith.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sustainably-run-certificate-web-480x480.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption>Sustainably Run Certificate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Giving back is important to us.  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