Making a Material difference starts at home and our journey towards a net zero future is well underway, having begun pre-pandemic in 2019 with the establishment of our emissions baseline year, our Environmental Committee and our very first Carbon Literacy team training.
In 2019, we also became a signatory of Race to Zero – the UN’s global climate change campaign for businesses, sharing our first voluntary emissions disclosure through the SME Climate Hub.
Fast forward to 2025, we are in our 6th year of emissions reductions measurement and we are pleased to report a 65% reduction in our Scope 1 & 2 emissions and an 83% reduction in our Scope 3 emissions (2024 vs 2019 baseline). For more info on our emissions reductions plans and reporting, see our Net Zero Roadmap document here.
We are also immensely proud to be 2-years B Corp Certified with an initial score of 98.9 which we will be aiming to build on with our first biennial re-evaluation in 2026.
We’ll be updating this section of our website along with our Net Zero Roadmap, B Corp Impact Report and SME Climate Hub disclosures by no later than April 2026. In the meantime, we warmly welcome any discussions around our journey, the credentials we’ve achieved to date and our plans and goals for the future.
Our B Corp journey and our net zero roadmap are underpinned by a broader Social and Environmental Sustainability Strategy which is built on 3 core pillars, each containing priority areas of focus with short-term (12-24month) objectives and mid-term (2030) targets to meet in order to achieve our longer-term (2045) goals.
Progress is driven by our 3 appointed Pillar Leads and their supporting Pillar Teams, with our 12-24month objectives tackled business-wide via colleagues volunteering themselves to support specific tasks based on their professional skills or personal interests.
We were fortunate to benefit from the fantastic support of Glasgow’s Step Up To Net Zero funded programme, enabling us to bring in a specialist to map and audit our (scope 3) upstream and downstream suppliers.
Click on each of the 3 boxes below to read more on the progress we have made to date around the 3 pillars of our social and environmental sustainability strategy:
We focus on improving our own environmental footprint through consistent emissions monitoring aligned to our reductions plans and driven by resource and operating efficiencies and the integration of circular processes across our business. We also focus on how we engage and work with our clients and suppliers to source and procure in a responsible way from those that share our net zero goals, considering end of life planning for purchased goods to reduce raw material inputs and waste outputs from our operations.
We focus on how we will drive change collectively by engaging and enabling each of our team members in the delivery of our strategy, by creating the opportunity for career development and continuous learning and aiming to protect the health and wellbeing of our people. We also focus on how we can contribute positively to our local community by raising funds and volunteering with organisations, charities and causes in which we believe passionately.
We focus on how our leadership team ensure that our decision-making and actions are guided by our values and by our responsibilities as a B Corp certified business, holding ourselves accountable to the standards set by our Board, to B Corp standards, and aligned to climate action frameworks such as the UN’s Race to Zero. We also ensure that our decision making is aligned to how we look after our people, our clients, our wider social impact and our plans for business growth.
We have implemented and/or updated many social and environmental policies including (but not limited to)