Sustainability Statement:

River Publishing is actively working towards reducing our carbon footprint.

As for all leading magazine publishers, we are committed to minimising our environmental impact and to ensuring that the company and its suppliers meet stringent criteria. We are constantly looking at new technologies that reduce the environmental impact of the production process.

River has vast experience in the range, environmental credentials and performance of the various recycled and part-recycled papers on the market. We are now supplying these papers to several clients and are in discussion with others about introducing these into their magazines – more and more this forms a core part of the client’s brief.

All paper is procured from well managed forests. We use FSC paper and paper holding the PEFC certificates and oxo-degradable poly-wrap for mailed publications where possible. We also use more environmentally friendly alternatives to gloss uv cover varnishes where suitable.

All of our printers operate modern, efficient presses with most holding, or working towards ISO 14001 environmental management system. We also produce some of our magazines using the gravure process where the energy requirement per square metre of printed paper is substantially less than for web offset.

Charity:

Champions for Children

Champions for Children makes a difference for children at risk by enabling the many staff members who serve them to work better together. With regional centres in Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America, Champions for Children helps 78 international organisations and over 7000 local projects to work in partnership through 40 collaborations in 40 countries. Together, Champions for Children and its parent charity, Viva, are impacting more than 1.8 million children.

Good Rock

The Good Rock Foundation was founded by Jeff and Jacqui Shurr in 1997 after they visited China’s orphanages on the adoption of their daughter. At that time, China’s orphanages’ doors were closed to outsiders. Jeff and Jacqui’s daughter Abigail came from a poor and remote region where help was desperately needed. Our name ‘Good Rock’ comes from Abigail’s Chinese name which means ‘the rock’ and her birthdate; Good Friday!

Good Rock started small, reaching the needs of a few children with special needs and has grown over the last decade to reach out to hundreds of children across the region of Xinjiang. Good Rock works in partnership with China’s government to help improve child welfare policy and we do that in a variety of ways:

• Foster care
• Education for minority children and teens
• Therapy and life skills training for the disabled
• Medical relief
• Training for orphanage caregivers
• Feeding programmes

Good Rock is a registered charity in the UK and Hong Kong and a member of China Association of Social Work.

We at Good Rock believe that shared resources helps build a better future faster for China’s orphans and to this end we have co-operated with other organisations such as: WHO, Save The Children, International China Concern, Care for Children, Children’s Hope International, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, Fu Wai Hospital Beijing, Matilda Hospital Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital Hong Kong, Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation.

Our work is funded through individual and corporate donations, funds raised through events and from A Gift From China charity store.

Over the years we have brought volunteer experts to help the children. We have had visiting Doctors, Dentists, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and others.

We currently have long-term projects in 5 Xinjiang orphanages serving hundreds of children. There are over 35 orphanages in this province and it is our vision to reach all of these children.

You can help by donating (see our web site) or volunteering your expertise.

Reach us at: info@goodrock.org.uk

www.goodrock.org.uk