Hallam

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2022)

Set up a Hallam Forest through Ecologi, planting 10 trees a month for all employees and funding climate projects around the world.
Created an Environmental Management plan covering office operations, waste management, and project delivery.

Achieved B Corp certification in July 2022.
Doubled the representation of ethnic minorities in the workforce.
Raised minimum salaries to £25,000.
Increased focus on serving charities and nonprofits.
Created or updated employee policies including gender-neutral parental leave, D&I, travel, breastfeeding and miscarriage support.
Protected staff development budget, investing in training.
Formalized a remote-first work policy.

Short-term Goals:

Integrate B Corp compliance and statistics into financial reporting and compliance register.
Create an ethics panel to vet new business opportunities.
Implement actions from the Environmental Management plan.
Work with landlord to improve office sustainability or consider relocation.
Roll out a more robust training programme around mental wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, sustainability.
Put career progression plans in place for all employees.
Re-energise employee volunteering initiative.
Partner with Emmanuel House Support Centre as charity of the year.
Replace NPS survey with a customer temperature check.
Create a client-centric culture with a client representative in every meeting.
Introduce a programme to incorporate customer feedback into product and service development.

Decreasing carbon footprint (increased since first measurement during the pandemic).
Avoiding hypocrisy and greenwashing.

Implementing actions from the Environmental Management plan.
Working with landlord to identify sustainable improvements to office space or consider moving.
Ongoing commitment to incremental improvement.

Frameworks Used: B Corp

Certifications: B Corp