Social Impact Creates Business Success on Seahaven Radio FM
Social Impact Creates Business Success on Seahaven Radio FM
Kathy Harding with Community People
From his own experience of helping students into work and backing community campaigns, to supporting charities, entrepreneurs, and wellbeing research, Clive explained how social impact becomes action, recorded below.
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Clive Bonny, Strategic Management Partners [email protected]
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Organisation for Responsible Businesses https://www.orbuk.org.uk/
How SME eco and social value credentials win new business
UK Responsible Business Standards verify best practice for business sustainability, environmental management and social responsibility. This UK based standard is managed by a non profit UK enterprise https://www.orbuk.org.uk/ for small businesses of 1-50 staff and is endorsed by UK Gov, Councils, Education bodies and SME members of many trade bodies including FSB. These credentials are aligned with UK Social Value and Statute helping small firms win public tenders.
Why Should Business Report on Social and Environmental Issues?
Organisations are being increasingly required by law (Companies Act 2006) to ensure they meet specific standards in environmental and social governance. “Triple Bottom Line ESG” reporting (Environmental, Social and Economic Governance) is now a statutory requirement for public-funded bodies, health, education, and PLC’s. In turn, small enterprises down the supply chain are being asked to demonstrate their social and environmental credentials. The UK Public Services (Social Value) Act 2021 obliges public procurers to check all suppliers show evidence of environmental management and social value as a pre-qualification for a share of the UK public procurement budget worth over £100 Billion a year.
How does it work? Many sme’s already meet parts of the standard. Applicants take a simple online questionnaire as a quick SWOT analysis, providing immediate detailed responses and signposting gaps where appropriate. This fast immediate online review costs just £15 for an individual CPD certification.
Why Apply? It shows evidence of sustainable operations and business continuity against an approved national standard. It reduces the risk of non-compliance with new Environment Laws. It improves opportunities to win tenders for corporate and public works. It uniquely includes both Environmental and Social Standards making it broader than other forms of certification, and it is less complex. It is tailored specifically for smaller organisations employing 1 to 50 staff who are unable to divert financial and technical resources to meet other standards such as B Corp and ISO 9001 QA, 14001 environment, 27001 IT Risk, 45001 Health and Safety
The Responsible Business Standard sme marketability into public sector and corporate prime contractors and gives charity supporters a big boost. Local Authorities spend £40 Billion pa on external services and are now targeted to ensure 25% of suppliers are SMEs. The Responsible Business Standard enables small enterprises to prove their sustainability as quality suppliers for public limited companies, and public sector bodies such as NHS, schools, central government and local authority services. Microbusiness certification starts at £195 lasting 3 years.