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MAKE A VERY
POSITIVE IMPACT.
We believe purpose-driven businesses are shaping the future – and B Corp certification is one of the most powerful ways to show the world you’re serious about making a difference.
Becoming a B Corp is more than ticking boxes. It’s about embedding values across your culture, your policies, and the way you do business every day. Whether you’re just starting your B Corp journey or already on the path, we’ll help you bring your people, suppliers and customers along with you — because real impact happens when everyone’s involved.
Since 2016 we’ve been delivering social value and helping other businesses get B Corp certified. We’re so serious about it that we even became EcoVadis Gold certified too!
Let’s build something better—together. If you’re part of a business that wants to do good and to do it well, we’re a perfect match. Interested?
AFFORDABLE
SCALABLE
& PERSONALISED.
OUR VIDEO EXPLORES B CORP FOR POSITIVE OUTCOMES.
It’s results that matter most because our mission is to create long-term business relationships, and as you grow, you will come to us for more. That’s why our fees are affordable even for the smallest business without any sacrifice of quality.
Best of all, ESG Pro brings you a total consultancy team. You get a project manager, a senior sustainability lawyer, a dedicated carbon consultant, and even a graphics designer. No call centres, no unanswered calls, and always a beautifully personalised service.
100% FIRST-TIME CERTIFICATION SUCCESS
GAP ANALYSIS
& ACTION PLAN
Our initial assessment maps your business strengths to the B Corp requirements, and then we set priorities.
Nothing is left to chance. We manage the entire process and identify opportunities for quick wins, while giving you the practical guidance on exactly how your company might implement essential changes for success. Our work is paced according to your resources and ambitions.
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
YOU NEED SUPPORTING METRICS
Policies are important, but meaningless without evidence of actions. This is where skilled consultants are critical.
First, we audit what you have, and then add the many new policies you’ll require. Our in-house legal team offer skilled guidance on adapting your Articles of Association, but that’s only the beginning: we’ll show you how to evidence that your policies are being implemented. It’s key to passing.
ALL 7 IMPACT TOPICS
MANAGEMENT ADVISORY
A pass requires a balanced approach across all areas, from Human Rights to environmental performance.
You need excellence across the board, so whether it’s supply chain auditing or calculating your carbon footprint to the right standard, we do it all in-house. You work with a dedicated team of consultants, getting to know them as you engage collaboratively.
REFRESHINGLY
ADAPTABLE
CONSULTANCY.
Every client is unique, each with their own time and resource restraints. Define your perfect engagement, and we will embed it into your bespoke project plan.
We know clients like such flexibility because some are in a desperate rush, others ask for one or two hours per week, and others prefer a full day per month. However, our record delivery for a B Corp certification audit pass is four weeks, so anything is possible! You’ll probably need your carbon emission reporting and we do this concurrently. It’s a fact: take a customer-centric approach.
Our in-house legal team will deliver all of the custom policies and statements required, and they even tailor your Articles of Association and upload to Companies House. ESG Pro is a true one-stop shop.
SETTING YOU UP FOR SUCCESS
CARBON EMISSIONS
REPORTING
Our planet matters, and caring for it begins with making fewer emissions.
We’re experts at carbon reporting and helping you create a carbon reduction plan, but what about your waste? And what are you doing to contribute to biodiversity in the community and where do you begin? B Corp places a huge emphasis upon the environmental pillar, and rightly so, and our specialists have all of the answers.
SUPPLY CHAIN
AUDITING
You need to know your suppliers and their ethics, but there’s much more to it than that.
Our survey process measures supply chain risks and quantifies if they’re local, owned by under-represented groups, and much more. We even include consultancy for your suppliers as to how to improve (it’s part of our own social value initiative). It’s a complex piece of work which strengthens your business.
SOCIAL VALUE
INITIATIVES
Contributing genuine social value to the community is more than mere donations!
Social value is about looking after both people and planet, and motivating and facilitating your employees to participate actively and with purpose. The ESG Pro Social Value Sustainability Initiative—we call it the SVSI—is the sure-fire way for every business to participate, and it works even for sole traders. No software, no overhead. Just action.
INTEGRATED
B CORP
SUPPORT.
If only getting your B Corp certification was enough, right? If you’re supplying the NHS then you need B Corp plus Modern Slavery assurance and so much more. That’s why ESG Pro is the perfect partner!
We offer support for all globally recognised ESG frameworks which means we can secure you an initial ESG rating with certification in four weeks while you make progress with your B Corp application.
It doesn’t stop there. Once you get your business B Corp Certified, you will want a corporate-grade Annual Sustainability Report to publish on your website and to show your clients. We create these in-house with our own graphic design team.
Lead with Purpose.
Get B Corp Certified.
B Corp certification proves you’re serious about people, planet and profit. With 100% first-time success and expert UK consultants, we’ll help you pass with confidence—and build a business that makes a real impact.
B Corp Certification – FAQs
Thinking about becoming a Certified B Corp? Whether you’re starting from scratch or aiming to improve your score, we’ve compiled answers to the most common questions businesses ask about the B Corp certification process — including how ESG Pro supports you every step of the way.
B Corp certification is a globally recognised standard awarded to businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. It proves your business is committed to using profit as a force for good.
ESG Pro offers full-service B Corp consultancy with a 100% first-time pass rate. We manage every part of the process — from gap analysis and policy creation to evidence gathering, carbon reporting, and updating your Articles of Association.
To become B Corp certified, your business must demonstrate excellence across five key impact areas:
- Governance
- Workers
- Community
- Environment
- Customers
ESG Pro also includes support for supply chain auditing and social value initiatives to strengthen your score in each area.
Timelines vary depending on your current readiness. With ESG Pro’s support, businesses have achieved B Corp audit readiness in as little as four weeks. We tailor the pace to your resources, deadlines, and goals.
Yes. ESG Pro’s consultancy is designed to be affordable and scalable, with fixed fees and personalised support for SMEs, startups, and growing businesses. We help you make certification achievable without overwhelming your team.
Yes. B Lab requires companies to make a legal commitment to balancing profit and purpose. ESG Pro’s in-house legal team will update your Articles of Association and file the changes with Companies House as part of your certification package.
You’ll need to provide documentation that proves your policies and practices are active. This may include training logs, carbon reports, social value initiatives, and supply chain audits. ESG Pro helps you gather and present this evidence effectively.
Yes. We don’t just help you get certified — we support you in maintaining your certification and improving your impact year-on-year. We also provide annual sustainability reports, supply chain support, and carbon reduction planning.
Absolutely. B Corp status strengthens your brand’s reputation, helps with public sector procurement, and complements other ESG frameworks like GRI, EcoVadis, and CSRD. ESG Pro can align your strategy across multiple frameworks for maximum value.
Glossary of Key Terms – B Corp Certification
A certification awarded to businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
An assessment that compares your current business practices against the B Impact Assessment (BIA) standards to identify what changes are needed to qualify.
B Corp evaluates businesses across Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, Customers, and Disclosure.
A legal document outlining how a company is run. For B Corp, this is amended to include a commitment to consider stakeholder impact in decision-making.
Demonstrable positive impact that a business contributes to society — through community initiatives, fair wages, local employment, and sustainability.
Humperdinck Jackman (00:00.963)
I’m Humbert Jackman, CEO ESG Pro joined by Natasha Lee, our Managing Director. And we’re here in this session to introduce B Corp. What is it? How does it benefit your business? And how do we go about ensuring that you are B Corp certified and that you achieve your certification first time a unique attribute of ESG Pro is that we have never failed to secure a first time pass for any client.
B Corp founded in the late 1990s is the incarnation of ESG reporting specifically geared to address the needs and capabilities of small businesses right down to a business of one person. Must be a business, must have been trading for a year, must be for profits. I’m sorry guys, schools, charities, any other not-for-profit are excluded. You see, that’s where the GRI rating comes into play.
And as opposed to B Corp, is business, very much business to consumer on the other side, there’s ecovirus and some businesses like ESG pro would be Corp certified where GRGRI certified and we are ecovirus gold certified. So you can, and many businesses do achieve multiple certifications across these ESG frameworks. Now people, planet and profit.
Humperdinck Jackman (01:41.839)
It’s all about B Corp is all about setting your business on a solid path of growth. The process is challenging. It’s certainly not some form of a tick box exercise. There is a rigorous audit at the end performed by B Corp and their associate organization, B Lab. It is an independent audit. There’s no cheating and it’s getting stricter and harder every year, but
because it’s such a quality mark accepted and recognized on businesses, products and packaging. This is a certification which consumers especially recognize they want to do business with you. So our process is very personalized how we go about it. And Natasha, if you would like to just introduce how our consultancy approach.
ensures that our clients secure a first time pass that would be very enlightening.
Natashia Lee (02:47.426)
The thing with B Corp is that the framework is actually adapted for each business by the B Corp portal. So we can’t very easily, before we start working, say, well, it’s going to take this many hours and you need these particular policies and this evidence crafted. But what we do is look at, once you apply to start and the framework is developed, we say, these are the points that you definitely will be able to score. These are the pieces of evidence that you’ll need to be created.
and then we help create those. where a lot of businesses will lose their points is they tick the boxes saying, yes, we’ve got our non-discrimination policy and we’ve got our statement on the website, but then they need to submit a training log as an example that every employee has been trained on it and that’s where they might not have that piece. So when they go through the accreditation audit, they lose out so many points that they’ll end up not.
passing even if maybe they applied with 90 points at the start. But where we come in is making sure that there is that audit in place on not just the points you’re claiming but on the evidence you’re planning to submit.
Humperdinck Jackman (03:58.459)
That’s very, very, very good points made. Another aspect about B Corp and securing your certification is the greatly, greatly emphasized reliance on your environmental performance. So make no mistake about it. Your carbon reporting needs to be comprehensive. Just doing your scope one and two emissions alone.
So many companies get this sort of report from their energy provider. It’s not enough. You’ve got to be comprehensive about it. It’s about transparency and full disclosure and what other environmental actions your business is making, undertaking to protect the environment, but also then the people. It is a common theme with ESG Pro. We always emphasize that ESG, make no mistake about it.
B Corp is an ESG reporting framework. If a business is well run, that’s the governance, then the people, its employees, its customers are happy and happy, secure people are more likely to care about the environment. B Corp, it shapes every business. B Corp shapes every business.
It strengthens the business, it removes risk. And one common denominator of B Corp is very much enhanced employee retention. This in itself makes B Corp self-funding.
But the, one of the key points of my lecture on ESG at various universities, including UCL and Kingston University in the business schools. And one of the key themes I’m making when I deliver these lectures is that ESG is, is about enhancing businesses success.
Humperdinck Jackman (06:04.548)
consumers and other businesses will invariably pay a four to 9 % premium for a business which they perceive is genuinely sustainable. So there’s a good reason for starting your B Corp certification. So I’ve touched on the fact that we offer comprehensive carbon emissions reporting. And of course, there’s things like modern slavery certification, which are important too.
Natasha, you touched on policies and how being able to evidence a policy is so important. Would you like to expand on that a little bit and how this also relates to how the businesses run the governance angle?
Natashia Lee (06:51.52)
Absolutely. Within B Corp it actually does require a lot of policies. There are policies for breastfeeding mothers through to your waste segregation and B Corp because it is so people-planning focused, there will be policies not just your environmental policy but they’ll ask for policies on biodiversity, they’ll be asking for policies on your water management and
The commercial opportunities of completing B Corp is actually putting the lens on your governance and on how your business is being run, how your office is being run. And it does allow for your employees to become a part of that process as well. So good governance requires strong communication, not just to the public and your stakeholders, but to your internal teams. And I actually quite enjoy how
businesses when they start the B Corp journey, usually it is a collective effort across the entire business. Your employees are going to be enthusiastic to participate as well because it is something they recognise. You buy Harrogate Water, there’s a B Corp B on their label today. And it’s something that no matter whether you’re familiar with ESG, that logo means something, that badge means something and it means something to your staff. So with policy creation,
It isn’t just a case of having a policy, it’s about knowing that it’s being audited annually and that you are doing training on those policies. But then take that governance a step deeper. It’s knowing that you’ve got a team in-house that is responsible for looking at opportunities to improve the business, looking at one construction client, they collect their crisp packets and they donate them to a charity.
to turn them into safety blankets for the homeless.
Humperdinck Jackman (08:46.992)
And what I like about this, and I think this is where we should wrap up this introduction, is B Corp is such a powerful recognized for ESG rating, that it gives something your company, any organization, generally doesn’t have. And that’s something meaningful to talk about in terms of marketing. It’s one thing to have product, you can have a great product.
but you have to gain appeal and your marketing message in the day where in an era where Google ads are astronomically, astronomically expensive. How do you attract new clients to your brand, to your business, whether you’re selling to other businesses or to consumers, the sustainability message is what people are looking for. It’s why
It’s the driving force as to how people choose a hotel. it sustainable? How do they look after their people? Should I spend my money there? Our society is very socially conscious these days. Open any newspaper online or in print. The social consciousness is absolute. Appeal to the vast majority of potential buyers of your product and service.
by promoting the message of B Corp and watch your business grow.
Natashia Lee (10:18.988)
And I would argue it’s not just the consumers that care about B Corp, it’s other businesses looking for new partners and suppliers. And it’s within B Corp that you have vast networks, business networks, and in fact even the B Hive, which is for B Corp certified businesses to connect with each other. So the opportunities to leverage your B Corp certification to grow your business is vast.
Humperdinck Jackman (10:44.72)
Well, we see this all the time. The number of businesses which come to ESG Pro because we are B Corp certified. And we also prioritize working, buying from trading with B Corp certified businesses. So it’s a very, very good point. There’s a lot more we can explain about the topic. And just to wrap it up, you know, the process can range from two days of consulting
Well, a larger client, depending on the industry, can take five or even 10 days of consulting. But it’s very modular, it’s scalable, and it’s affordable. And we look forward to working with you and explaining this in greater detail. Thank you for listening.
Natashia Lee (11:32.6)
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