B Corporation
Our current system is broken.
By placing shareholder profits above all else, businesses have harmed our societies and our planet.
What if we could harness business to solve these problems, and create a thriving planet and prosperous future for everyone?
Join the B Corp movement of businesses building an inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy.
Hannah, Founder of The New Craft House, a sewing workshop studio and designer deadstock fabric shop:
“Holly was such a brilliant help in working through our B Corp accreditation. She broke everything down into manageable steps, has a great system for organising tasks and evidence, and pointed us in the direction of loads of helpful resources. The accreditation felt quite intimidating for a small business like ours, but Holly made it really manageable. She was invaluable - we couldn't have done it without her. ”
What we offer
We believe that the B Impact Assessment is an incredible free tool for businesses to measure and improve their impact on all stakeholders and the planet. We offer a proven four-stage framework to help businesses become B Corp Certified, usually submitting within a year. We have helped over 10 businesses with their B Impact Assessment so far!
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For organisations operating less than a year, our Consultants are here to advise you on becoming a pending B Corp. We take you through our four-stage process towards Certification so your business grows and evolves in the right direction.
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For organisations operating for more than a year, our B Consultants are here to take you through our four-stage proven framework towards Certification. We make measuring and scaling your impact fun and hold you accountable for continuous progress. Streamline the certification process and understand where your business's opportunities for Impact Business Models (IBMs) lie.
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Are you are certified B Corp wondering what's next? We help you to manage your B Impact Assessment (BIA) to keep your business on a path of continuous improvement. New standards are coming in from 2025 which contain non-negotiables. We are here to support your business in aligning with the new standards and your legal requirement to track and report on your impact publicly.
Testimonial
Sarah, Co Founder of Bleat Post-Production:
“Holly & Planet A were introduced to us when we had made the decision to start the process of becoming B Corp Certified. Holly subsequently consulted for us through the Better Futures + Programme and made, what is, a very daunting process absolutely manageable. She is extremely knowledgeable about the B Corp process and sustainability.
The sessions we had were insightful, well produced and fun.”
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The process and timeline
The time it takes for a company to submit its application will depend on its initial baseline score, usually, a period of improvement is required to reach 80+ points, this can take anywhere from 3-24 months, for an SME this often takes around 6-18 months. In our experience certifying as a B Corporation usually brings up three main challenges: 1. Understanding the questions in the BIA and how to provide evidence 2. Keeping the momentum going to make continuous changes towards certification 3. Involving the team in the process to share the responsibility and effectively improve the impact of the business. Our own proven four-stage process towards certification has been designed to tackle all of these challenges.
3. Certification Stage
We prepare you for the submission progress and support you with any feedback from B Lab to ensure you exceed eighty points.
4. Bonus Stage
Certified, then what? We prepare you for certification, recertification and how to be an active member of the B Corp community.
2. Improvement Stage
We deliver an impact improvement plan and evidence folder and we meet regularly to ensure continuous improvements are made.
1. Validation Stage
We learn about your company and start the B Corp assessment together to validate your baseline score and your readiness to start stage two.
To ensure we can support businesses of all sizes to certify as a B Corporation, we offer transparent pricing packages based on the number of employees, this includes full-time and part-time employees. We understand that the B Impact Assessment brings up a range of questions and challenges so we also offer B Corp Power Sessions. Our power sessions are tailored to your needs and are designed to help your business progress towards B Corp Certification. The session could include an introduction to the BIA and help to map out your businesses B Corp journey or advice on a specific category or area of the assessment.
Pricing Packages
The benefits of becoming a Certified B Corporation
Attract and retain talent
In a recent UK report by Unily, 83% of workers thought their employer was not doing enough to be more sustainable and tackle climate change. 65% said they would be more likely to work for a company with robust environmental policies. Becoming a Certified B Corporation helps your business to gain recognition and therefore attract and retain the best talent - Often employees who have worked for B Corps want to stay in B Corps.
Join a purpose-led community
The B Corp community is a unique community full of like minds and innovative leaders. As a certified B Corporation, all employees have access to the B Hive, an online portal of over 5000 B Corps worldwide. Here you can connect and direct message other B Corps, join groups of interest by location, role, impact area of interest, or identity, search the database, access B Corp discounts, or find or share relevant resources. You can also meet the community and network in person at one of the B Socials or end-of-year events. Monthly newsletters share best practice B Corp case studies to inspire and empower continuous change and action - B Corps are a community of continuous improvement.
Gain recognition
In a landscape of greenwashing, it can be very hard to make your brand or business stand out from the rest, even if you are doing a lot of great things. You can use your Certified B Corporation logo on your assets and products to show that you are committed to measuring and improving your social and environmental performance. We have just reached over 1000+ B Corps in the UK and more and more citizens are becoming aware of the positive role of B Corps, this helps to gain like-minded partners, clients and customers - B Corps love to collaborate with one another.
Testimonial
“We worked with Holly as a consultant to help us with our BCorp assessment and application. Being someone who is very prominent in sustainability across the advertising and production sector we felt she was perfectly placed to hold our hands through the process. Her working practise is very thorough, she was really easy to get on with and we quickly developed an efficient and productive working process. Her in-depth knowledge and passion for purpose-led businesses was invaluable, and alongside an appreciation of the challenges that businesses of our size face, she was a perfect fit. I would highly recommend her to anybody else wanting to pursue this journey.”
- Angus, Founder of Locate Productions
