Business as a Force for Good: Our B Corp Credentials

Social Mobility & Integration

The Launchpad Collective (TLC) is a Brighton-based non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting refugees into employment: a critical assimilation goal of this community. In addition to ongoing financial assistance, several members of the B-People team were instrumental in developing TLC’s offering and are now acting as employer-side advocates and advisors as the initiative expands access to its services across the whole of the UK.

We see huge Diversity & Inclusion benefits for employers that draw on the many talents of people with a refugee background and we are very excited about the potential to shift both perceptions and reality around the global issue of forced migration. B-People's strategic advice and direct operational support is provided to TLC on a fully pro-bono basis.

B-People recently became a TLC Scholarship Partner and is actively advocating for other companies to support TLC's work in a similar way, with the aim of building a sustainable funding model that helps to fill the significant skills and staff shortages being experienced by organisations in almost every sector. Click here to find out more and sign up to TLC's Crowdfunder campaign for businesses.

Sustainability & Business

As part of our own commitment to environmental sustainability, B-People is proud to be a commercial partner to the Environmental Business Network (The EBN) and we are delighted to be a leading player in this fast-growing UK movement.

In common with other partners and members of The EBN, we appreciate that we are all facing a very different environmental and economic future and that every business has to change its behaviour. It is not just the climate at risk but also our commercial viability: as corporate clients, consumers, banks, investors, suppliers and our own people become increasingly demanding.

Through our commercial partnership with the EBN we aim to learn, share and connect with like-minded businesses to help to shape the agenda in the environmental sustainability space. We also pledge to share these learnings and experiences with our own stakeholders as we strive to become thought leaders in our market and the wider responsible business landscape.

Being a commercial partner to the Environmental Business Network connects us to hundreds of ambitious and forward-thinking organisations from whom we learn so much. It is just one of many actions we are taking to make our business sustainable and responsible.

Focused Impact

In 2022, B-People was also pleased to make donations to several organisations that are working to overcome wider social issues.

These included a direct donation to the brilliant FGS Football Academy in Liverpool, where B-People are now proud sponsors of the FGS Seville Girls U11 team. We see grassroots sport as a key facilitator in the journey towards global gender equality - so check out our B-People branding on the team's match kit if you ever see them in action!

We also supported award-winning charity The Big Issue and their important work helping people who are experiencing homelessness or who are vulnerably housed: providing a hand-up that enables them to rebuild their lives and determine their own pathways to a better future.

Business for Good

B Corp accreditation is quickly gaining recognition at the gold standard for responsible business and high Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards. Every year, B-People aims to provide at least 5% of its services to dynamic Social Enterprises and other Non-Profit Organisations on a pro-bono basis. We do this in the belief that if we can help these companies to grow, then everyone benefits.

Within its day-to-day operations, B-People provides the highest level of employee support, with an enlightened approach to flexible working and numerous benefits designed to maximise wellbeing and a healthy work-life balance. Whenever possible, we also strive to provide opportunities to young people from ethnically diverse or socially disadvantaged backgrounds via work experience and internships.

Find out more about our core values and or get in touch to start working with us.