Environmental, social and governance

Be the change

We’re now a certified B Corp, which means we meet high standards for social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability. Achieving certification was an important milestone – but it’s not the end of the journey.

To get here, we benchmarked ourselves against the B Corp assessment framework to understand where we were performing well and where we needed to do better. Certification recognises the progress we’ve made, while also holding us accountable for continuous improvement.

A key theme of our strategic plan is the ongoing development of a comprehensive environmental, social and governance (ESG) approach. This guides how we support our communities, reduce our carbon footprint, minimise our environmental impact and ensure the firm is well governed – using the B Corp framework to help shape and measure our progress over time.

Environmental initiatives

Our environmental commitments sit within a wider ESG approach, shaped and measured using the B Corp framework. We’re committed to understanding, managing and reducing our environmental impact as part of our B Corp journey.

As part of this we have green teams, active across our offices, bringing colleagues together to identify opportunities, test new ideas and drive practical changes at a local level. We’re fortunate to be based in one of the most beautiful parts of the UK, and we want to play our part in protecting it.

Social initiatives

We respect our colleagues, value their diversity and care about their wellbeing. Without them, we would not be the successful firm we are today. As a significant regional employer, we want to have a positive impact on the communities where we live and work.

We’ve introduced volunteering days and the PKF Francis Clark Community Fund to encourage all our people to make a difference to the communities and environment we live and work in. We want to work with likeminded clients and suppliers whose values are aligned to ours.

Governance initiatives

We want to continue to attract and retain the very best talent and so we listen want to understand more about our current and future colleagues, and ensure they feel a sense of belonging and being supported. We need to see more diversity within our senior management teams and be more transparent in our decision making.

We’re actively making changes to governance to help create an even better firm, whether this is through the ethics of board members, diversity standards, firm culture or the sustainability of our day-to-day operations.