Our impact
Our goal as a business is to commit to reducing our negative impacts and to actively pursue and measure how we are making a positive contribution to society and the environment, whilst growing a thriving advisory business.
We create impact on people and planet in two ways:
Firstly – through our advisory work with our clients.
As a small business, the greatest impact we can have by far is in influencing the strategic and operational decisions our clients make in relation to the environment, community, workforce and corporate governance. So, our approach is to align our client work closely to best practice frameworks to ensure that, from proposal stage through to implementation and final delivery, our advisory work is squarely designed to create positive impacts for the environment, employees and client supply chains as well as wider society.
Secondly – in modelling a responsible business the way we lead and operate our own business.
We believe in addition to the obvious obligation for any sustainability business to ‘walk the talk’ that we have an opportunity to model ‘what good looks like’ as a small but growing purposeful business. Our strategy is to set out as we mean to go on, using our underlying philosophy as a blueprint to guide how we impact on our people, wider communities and the planet.
To this end, we have set ourselves some clear impact targets which we measure ourselves against for each project we run as well as a set of targets for our own business management.
Our Impact Through Customers
To create measurable positive impact through directly influencing our clients’ business activities
To ensure we are always delighting our clients and delivering at or above their expectations
Grow our impact through clients year on year
To create measurable positive social and environmental impact through directly influencing our clients’ business activities
Our Impact as a Business
Do all we can to reduce our negative impacts and help contribute to the wider society and physical world in which we operate
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Our Goals
- To be reflective of the society in which we operate, both in terms of our attitude approach, and in terms of our workforce as we grow
- To support female or minority owned businesses in our supply chain, where possible prioritising them over other suppliers
- To provide training and development around Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for the Philosophy team
Community Impact
Our Goals
- To actively engage actively with our local and national communities
- Grow the % of our time and profits we give to non profits and causes year on year – from maintaining
Environmental Impact
Our Goals
- Become a net zero business across our Scopes 1 & 2 by 2030
- Measure and monitor our Scope 3 footprint to enable us to continually reduce this and work towards eliminating carbon from our value chain by 2035
Organisations we support
We’re committed to giving a minimum of 1% of annual turnover to charities and good causes each year and giving 3% of time as pro bono consultancy support or volunteering. We partner with a range of organisations to support action for the natural world and social projects, close to our Cornwall and Oxfordshire bases and internationally.
