Actions speak louder than words at ARA. Our work is underpinned by the 3 pillars of sustainability: Social Justice, Economic Efficiency -and Environmental Integrity. Working to achieve the highest level of sustainability, we actively engage to identify challenges inhibiting social, economic -and environmental growth. To this end, the pioneering ARA team has considerable experience and expertise which innovate challenges to deliver and implement solutions driving positive social change which simultaneously addresses environmental -and climate action.
Our ethos and values are underpinned by the following:
- ARA subscribes to the principles of Fairtrade
- The UNESCO Bill of Human Rights and embraces, with delivered outcomes
- The 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Our Local Community Engagement – and Environmental Engagement Policy in place, supports community benefit projects where our team volunteer time to assist people living in hard to reach communities to integrate positively into and ,enjoy quality of life in the town or region where they live and work.
- We contribute to Environmental Protection projects tangibly For over 25 years and our founder has innovated pioneering globally recognised social impact models driving projects in Waste Management, Behaviour Change – People-Planet Partnerships and Tourism (with specific emphasis on addressing Tourism business practice excluding local entrepreneurial opportunities for local communities, and Over-Tourism negatively affecting local communities and the environment.
- We have worked – and volunteered considerable time in local communities in South -and Southern Africa, West Africa and the United Kingdom.
Our clients and collaborative partners past and present
We are delighted to work in several countries local firms, national/ regional institutions and clients to join us to forge strong, mission and outcomes-driven partnerships to collaborate, innovate, and implement projects, examples of which include:
- Housing21
- Department for the Environment
- Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) UK
- Amicus Horizon
- East Sussex County Council
- Virgin Holidays
- Universities of Brighton and Surrey in the UK
- Great Green Systems UK
- the Consulate of the Dutch Kingdom
- The British Council UK
- Dreamcatcher South Africa NPC (The SMJ Community Waste Working Group)
- Stilbaai
- Wild Rescue in South Africa
- Women in Leadership Botswana
- Hope4African, Sierra Leone