About Us
Can we really trust sustainable products and services?
According to Forbes sustainability is much more than a trend, they describe it as a perfect storm
(in a good way) of purpose-minded yet business opportunity- led progress.
They report "Goodbye to Greenwashing - Hello Business Results'
The answers are to be found in organisations that are transparent, accountable, socially and environmentally responsible. We are one such business, and we strongly recommend eco-friendly consumers look for B Corp Certified companies, organisations that have voluntarily undertaken a rigourous assessment of their business structure to achieve their certification - which they must renew every three years. We have a growing number of B Corp Companies on our web platform, bookmark our page, we are an excellent up to date resource of Environmentally Social Governance (ESG) companies.
We are proud to outreach on behalf of the Soil Association, you may know them well their Organic Certification of food products, however their sustainable certification schemes extends across beauty and wellbeing, fashion and textiles, catering , farming and forestry. Once again many of our partners have Organic Certification in particular in Beauty and Nutritional Health products.
Founded in 2018 Naturally Sustainable is operated by people with decades of experience in supply chain benchmarking and certification.
The organisation was created specifically to promote sustainable best practice.
We are an independent, pragmatic organisation, working alongside nationally respected UK companies such as British Standards Institute (BSI), Ordnance Survey, the Soil Association, English Heritage, the Royal Horticultural Society and the National Trust for Scotland.
We chose to create a promotional vehicle capable of giving pleasure, knowledge and experience to its audience focusing on sustainable products and services at home, at play, at work and when travelling.
Our business is by nature a research organisation, and at its core we too identify the need to be transparent, accountable and socially and environmentally responsible. We do this by being a active member of the UK's SME Climate Hub and by promoting companies that are B Corp Certificated.
Commitment and
Accredidation
Every company that commits to the SME Climate Hub must first make a commitment to reduce C02 within its organisations at three levels:
Scope 1 - All direct greenhouse gas emissions. This includes emissions from sources that are owned or controlled by the business such as company vehicles and company facilities.
Scope 2 - All indirect greenhouse gas emissions arising from electricity, heat or steam consumption.
Scope 3 - Value chain emissions related to the business’s suppliers, customers and employees. This includes emissions from purchased goods and services, transportation, the use and disposal of your sold products and business travel and employee commuting.
What is a B Corp Company
The business model was created by B LAB a global business founded in 2006 in the United States. The three founders developed a concept known as the B Corporation or Benefit Corporation, a business model that requires the entity to meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. (Source: B Lab)
B Lab go on to say:
'An analogy that is commonly used is that B Corp Certification is to business what Fair Trade certification is to coffee or USDA Organic certification is to milk.
In short, B Corps are companies that undergo a rigorous certification process to improve their social and environmental performance. They don’t just say that they’re good businesses or socially responsible businesses, as so many other businesses do.
They’re committed to using business as a force for good – and they’re willing to have their practices be independently vetted by a third-party and to make their results transparent. You can see the score of any B Corp on the B Corp directory."
The concept of a Benefit Corporation struck home to American legislatures, beginning in 2010 in Maryland, State after American State adopted B Corp as a business basis such that today 35 American States plus Washington, District of Columbia permits corporations to establish a B Corp.
Paul Polman, then CEO of Unilever recorded this video presentation at the launch of B Corp UK, London in 2016.
Today Paul Polman works across a range of organisations to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which he helped develop.
B Corp UK
The stability of B Corp companies is recognised.
Major retailers including Boots, Waitrose and Orcado have created B Corp Aisles in their online stores.
B Corp UK was established in 2015 in London and has gone from strength to strength, the pandemic slowed things down but October 2023 1500 companies have gained certification. Numbers literally doubled in 2020 as an indication of how successful the Certification is.
Major retailers including Boots, Waitrose and Orcado have created B Corp Aisles in their online stores.
Global businesses including Allianz, IKEA, Unilever, Virgin Group, Harley Davidson, organisations with headquarters on every continent have taken the B Corporation principal on board, have issued challenges in their own organisations that are in effect compliance procedures.
We recommend that you take a look for yourself at how British companies have adopted B Corp Certification.
Five companies in our Sustainable Products portfolio are B Corp companies.
Check for yourself why we at Naturally Sustainable are confident that within a few years B Corp Certified Businesses will become the accepted norm.
Our five businesses are:
- Gousto - Portion control heathy foods to your door
- Wild Nutrition - Vitamins and Minerals for Health
- Bower Collective - Highly effective natural household products in reusable packaging.
- Evolve Beauty Products - Organic beauty products for skin and hair
- Ocean Bottle - When you buy an Ocean Bottle reusable water bottle, you fund the collection of 1000 ocean-bound plastic bottles before they enter the ocean.
We recommend you visit the B Corp UK website where you will discover how the organisation works
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