Free Sustainability Assessment for Small Businesses

Understand your current sustainability performance, identify improvement opportunities and receive practical recommendations in less than 5 minutes.

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Why Most Small Businesses Struggle with Sustainability

As sustainability quickly becomes a business requirement, many small businesses are being asked to do more with limited time, budget and expertise.

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Not Knowing Where to Start

Many small businesses want to improve their sustainability but aren't sure which actions will have the greatest impact.

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Limited Resources

Small teams often have limited time, budget and capacity to manage sustainability alongside day-to-day operations.

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Increasing Customer Expectations

Customers increasingly want to buy from businesses that can demonstrate responsible environmental and social practice.

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Supply Chain Requirements

Larger organisations are increasingly asking suppliers to provide sustainability information as part of procurement processes.

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Requests from Investors & Lenders

Access to investment, finance and growth opportunities increasingly depends on reporting ESG performance.

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Lack of Internal Expertise

Many businesses don't have dedicated sustainability specialists and struggle to interpret evolving ESG requirements.

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What is a Sustainability Assessment?

A sustainability assessment for SMEs evaluates how effectively a business manages environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities.

It provides a clear picture of your current sustainability performance, identifies strengths and gaps, and helps you prioritise actions that deliver the greatest impact.

A strong sustainability assessment is the first step towards a more resilient, efficient and future-ready business.

Our Sustainability Scorecard acts as a sustainability assessment tool for your business. It provides a quick, practical and comprehensive SME sustainability assessment in less than five minutes.

Key Areas Covered in Our Sustainability Assessment

Designed specifically for small and growing businesses, our sustainability assesssment is aligned with leading ESG frameworks and covers the most material environmental, social and governance topics.

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Carbon Footprint, Net Zero and Energy Management

Measurement and management of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across your operations and supply chain (scope 3 emissions) and strategies for reducing these such as Net Zero goals and alignment with the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

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Packaging, Plastic and Circular Economy

Strategies to improve the sustainability of packaging, measurement and reporting of packaging you put on the market (Extended Product Responsibility - EPR), and policies related to single use plastic (such as straws, cutlery and tableware and container deposit schemes).

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Waste Management and Recycling

Targets to reduce or eliminate waste to landfill, operational recycling and food waste management streams, following the principles of the waste heirarchy. Policies and strategies to reduce waste throughout the supply chain in the production of your products and services.

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Resource Use and Biodiversity

Policies and strategies related to sourcing and procurement, such as independently certified products, policies aligned with the EU deforestation regulation (EUDR) and processes aligned with regulatory targets on biodiversity.

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Ethical Supply Chain and Modern Slavery

The monitoring and reporting of ethical working conditions in the supply chain, including modern slavery statements, supply chain mapping, risk assessment, production site auditing and transparency.

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Employee Health, Safety and Wellbeing

Employees are critical to small and growing businesses. The management of employee health, safety and wellbeing, and policies around these, are part of the sustainability assessment.

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Community and Charitable Giving Initiatives

The policies and strategy for your community and charitable giving initiatives that your business has and how aligned these are with your core business objectives.

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Governance, ESG Reporting and Sustainability Training

The structures, oversight, policies and procedures of your sustainability initiatives, your public and internal ESG measurement and reporting, and sustainability training.

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The Sustainability Scorecard provides a simple way to assess where you are today and identify practical next steps.

Why Conduct a Sustainability Assessment?

Measure and Demonstrate Improvement
Improve Operational Efficiency
Meet Customer Expectations
Prepare for ESG Requirements
Build Competitive Advantage
Develop a Sustainability Roadmap
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Free Sustainable Business Scorecard

Our Sustainability Scorecard helps businesses quickly assess their current sustainability performance across key ESG topics.

In less than five minutes, you'll receive:

A sustainability rating

Practical recommendations

Identification of key strengths

A clearer sustainability roadmap

Areas for improvement

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Sustainability Maturity Framework

Our Scorecard helps you identify your current maturity level and understand the next steps to progress.

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Level 1
Starting Out
Limited sustainability activity.
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Level 2
Developing
Some initiatives and policies.
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Level 3
Progressing
Structured sustainability programme.
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Level 4
Leading
Embedded sustainability strategy.
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Level 5
Transformational
Sustainability integrated into decision- making.

Who is the Assessment For?

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Food and beverage companies

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Consumer Goods businesses

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Retailers and eCommerce

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Healthcare organisations

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Hospitality businesses

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SMEs beginning their sustainability Journey

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Example Assessment Outcomes

Example 1:
Food Service Provider

Assessment Score:

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Identified Opportunities:
  • Developing a Sustainability Strategy
  • Introduce specific waste-reduction goals
  • Stakeholder communication planning

Example 2:
Professional Services Firm

Assessment Score:

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Identified Opportunities:
  • Aligning existing sustainability initiatives with SDGs
  • Responsible sourcing and procurement policies

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Facts

The latest sustainability information for small businesses

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Guides

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Tools

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Next Steps: Your Sustainability Journey Starts Here

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Complete the Sustainability Scorecard

Answer a series of simple questions in under 5 minutes.
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Receive Your Scorecard Results

Get your benchmark, strengths, opportunities and practical recommendations.
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