Sustainability services

ESG serves as a framework that businesses can use to help improve the impact they have and ensure they continue to grow sustainably.

Sustainability isn’t just about the environment. It’s much more than that: how you think about your people, how you make decisions and how you run your business.

Sustainability can help create competitive advantage through:

• More sustainable growth of your top and bottom line
• Better employee engagement
• Stronger relationships with stakeholders
• More robust procurement processes and supply chain

We’ve been developing as a responsible business over several years. In 2022, our progress was recognised when we became a Certified B Corporation. We apply this first-hand experience when we advise clients.

Because ESG is such a new and evolving area, you may be uncertain about how to begin.

When we speak to our clients about sustainability, we assess their sustainability journey to help them identify ways in which they can reduce their risk. This could include a better understanding of their supply chain and any weaknesses in it or mapping their stakeholders and how they are impacted by the business’s decisions.

As well as finding ways to reduce the risk they carry, these conversations help us to discover many opportunities for them to grow sustainably.

How could exploring sustainability make a difference?

Assessing the risks and opportunity will particularly benefit your business if you:

• Require funding or are looking for external investment
• Work with the public sector
• Have a supply chain

ESG is not just for listed companies to worry about. SMEs should consider how they can do the right thing.

We’ve developed a range of services for SMEs to help them become more responsible, sustainable businesses.

Consultancy

• Sustainability strategy
• Risk identification and risk register
• Stakeholder mapping and materiality analysis
• Procurement and supply chain advisory

Compliance – Reporting and measuring

• Carbon footprint and reduction plans
• People data
• Waste data
• KPIs and Board pack
• TCFD report preparation from base data

Compliance – Assurance

• Reporting and verifying TCFD/SECR/Pay gap data
• Support with B Impact Assessment and other applications for accreditation
• Getting data and reporting right for investors/banks

When you talk to us, we’ll work with you to understand where you can make the most progress most quickly. This way you’ll see the value sustainability can add to your business immediately, while developing a longer-term plan.

Myfanwy Neville, our Head of ESG, has a Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership (CISL) qualification and is a member of the ICAEW Sustainability Committee.

We’ve partnered with a selection of outstanding businesses who have guided our own journey, enabling us to provide our clients with a full range of sustainability services.

To find out how you can begin exploring sustainability and ESG in your business, or continue your growth as a responsible business, please get in touch using our enquiry form.