Microstat are pleased to announce that as corporate sponsors of the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, have been given bronze status by the trust in recognition of the annual financial support that we provide.  Why would a document management and scanning bureau support the wildlife trusts?  As Company secretary, Kate Payne explains, ” When you work in a big city like Birmingham, satisfying the document filing, management and data related issues for large and small corporate organisations, its easy to forget the ecological side of life and the importance of wildlife!  However, our work is obviously closely linked to trying to reduce the demands modern business places on the Earth. For example, the less paper that is produced, and the more that is recycled, the greater will be the environmental benefits. Microstats work in helping clients produce less paper, with innovative document management systems that cuts out paper with more production of electronic information is a massive step forward in the way modern businesses work.  Take a typical client who comes to us with a backlog of paper files stored in filing cabinets and who has a paper based, labourious and slow method of moving the documents around the organisation.  Such as  forms that have boxes to be ticked, invoices approved and signed, and new documents generated printed and posted.  A typical solution for such a client will include:-

1. Scanning the backlog of paper files for them

2. Shredding and re-cycling these files

3. Implementing a new document management system which will remove the need to print  paper

4. Invoices, correspondence and forms can all be generated and distributed electronically

From an ecological stand point, whilst recycling paper is admirable, the much greater gain is achieved by not producing paper in the first instance! ”

Warwickshire wildlife trust, based in Brandon on the outskirts of Coventry, are a dynamic trust with a rapidly growing membership of both public and corporate supporters. Membership gives access to their entire range of sites which include woodlands ( many of them ancient ) as well as wildflower meadows, lakes and their well equipped visitor centre and nature reserve at Brandon Marsh. Please visit their website www.warwickshire-wildlife-trust.org.uk

Last year Microstat scanned in excess of 12 million documents,  representing the equivalent of over 150 mature trees that would be required for that volume of paper production.

Microstat feel that their local work as well as their global vision are a good fit with warwickshire wildlife’s own ideals. ” Think global, act local ” has long been the rallying cry of the environmentalist.  Microstat believe  that in scanning documents and providing better ways of managing documents and data on a “local” UK  level we are, at least playing an active part in the battle against global warming. 

Should you wish to see how we can reduce the environmental impact of your organisation, ( and save you money! ) contact tim.myatt@microstat.co.uk or call on 0121 486 2020