{"id":497349,"date":"2025-10-13T23:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/497349\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:34:17","slug":"emissions-nature-and-community-bedmakers-impact-report-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/497349\/","title":{"rendered":"Emissions, nature and community: bedmaker&#8217;s impact report published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Harrison-Spinks-Pocket-springs-and-natural-fillings-being-handcrafted-into-a-Harrison-Spinks-mattres.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Fifth-generation luxury bedmaker, Harrison Spinks, has published its 2025 Impact Report, which celebrates record progress in sustainability and social impact, including reducing emissions, planting thousands of trees and handcrafting hundreds of beds for children in poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The report\u2019s publication follows Harrison Spinks being awarded \u2018Bed Manufacturer of the Year 2025\/26\u2019 at the National Bed Federation Awards \u2013 the company\u2019s second consecutive win and fifth overall \u2013 recognising its leadership and significant advances in sustainable bedmaking and responsible manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights from the 2025 Impact Report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enhancing the environment \u2013 At its Yorkshire farm, a historic orchard has been restored and 3,000 metres of native hedgerows planted, with more trees and songbird feed being introduced to increase biodiversity and wildlife. Over 160 volunteer hours were spent restoring rare Yorkshire wildlife and habitats through Yorkshire Wildlife Trust\u2019s Wild Ingleborough restoration project \u2013 including a record 2,365 trees planted in one day.<\/li>\n<li>Supporting local communities \u2013 Mattress donations to local children\u2019s charity Zarach increased by 50%, delivering 360 beds for children living in poverty this year. The business also supports St George\u2019s Crypt in Leeds, helping the homeless and people in recovery gain skills and employment \u2013 including hiring its first colleague through the charity.<\/li>\n<li>Colleague welfare \u2013 With the business now part employee-owned*, Harrison Spinks continues to prioritise colleague wellbeing through investments in training and long-term career development, including being involved in events to support women in the traditionally male-dominated industry.<\/li>\n<li>Reducing emissions \u2013 The company reduced direct (Scope 1) emissions by 10% and indirect (Scope 2) emissions by 37% in the last financial year, achieved by investments in infrastructure, improving heating systems and switching to renewable energy contracts.<\/li>\n<li>Waste reduction \u2013 Having achieved its goal of zero-production waste to landfill by 2025, Harrison Spinks has launched an ambitious new waste strategy to minimise incineration. Planned machinery upgrades will enable post-production waste to be repurposed into new mattress fillings.<\/li>\n<li>Responsible sourcing \u2013 Further initiatives to source traceable, certified natural materials, prioritising British fibres where possible, such as British wool, and traceable alpaca fibre, plus replacing horsehair with coir.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nick Booth, Managing Director at Harrison Spinks, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis year has been one of real milestones. From our responsible sourcing strategy to supporting local families and restoring the Yorkshire landscape, we\u2019re proving that the industry can create social value and positive change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharities like Zarach and St George\u2019s Crypt remind us that a good night\u2019s sleep is a basic right, while projects like Wild Ingleborough show the power of protecting nature on our doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing named Bed Manufacturer of the Year for the fifth time is further recognition of everyone\u2019s hard work and commitment to doing things the right way. We\u2019re really proud of the progress we\u2019ve made in sustainable bed making and responsible manufacturing, and we hope we can inspire others on their own sustainability journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more achievements and commitments by the business in the full report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrisonspinks.co.uk\/our-story\/sustainability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.harrisonspinks.co.uk\/our-story\/sustainability<\/strong><\/a><strong> \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This post is based on a press release issued on behalf of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrisonspinks.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Harrison Spinks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Pocket springs and natural fillings being handcrafted into a Harrison Spinks mattress<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>While you\u2019re here, can we ask a favour?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">South Leeds Life is published by a not-for-profit social enterprise. We keep our costs as low as possible but we\u2019ve been hit by increases in the print costs for our monthly newspaper which have doubled in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Could you help support local community news by making a one off donation, or even better taking out a supporters subscription?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Donate here, or sign up for a subscription at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifth-generation luxury bedmaker, Harrison Spinks, has published its 2025 Impact Report, which celebrates record progress in sustainability and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,163519,163520,1860,3695,16,15,163521],"class_list":{"0":"post-497349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-harrison-spinks","12":"tag-impact-report","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-sustainability","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-zarach"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115369480889236192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}