ESG Due Diligence: What UK SMEs Need to Know When Dealing with Large Corporates
If you supply large companies — FTSE 350 businesses, multinational corporations, large financial institutions, or major public sector organisations — your ESG performance is increasingly subject to scrutiny that goes far beyond a brief tick-box questionnaire. Large corporates are under growing pressure from investors, regulators, and their own customers to manage the ESG risks across […]
How to Measure Your Carbon Footprint as a UK SME
For UK SMEs embarking on an ESG programme, measuring your carbon footprint is usually the right place to start on the environmental pillar. It produces a baseline — a quantified picture of your current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions — against which future performance can be measured and targets can be set. Without a baseline, any […]
Building an ESG Strategy for Your UK SME: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide
An ESG strategy is not a glossy document produced for its own sake. For a UK SME, it is a structured approach to managing the environmental, social, and governance factors that affect the business’s long-term performance, its relationships with customers, employees, and investors, and its contribution to the communities in which it operates. The most […]
What Is the Modern Slavery Act and Does It Apply to My Business?
The Modern Slavery Act 2015 is one of the UK’s most significant pieces of social governance legislation. It requires certain businesses to publish an annual statement confirming the steps they have taken to ensure that modern slavery and human trafficking are not taking place in their operations or supply chains. Despite being in force since […]
ESG Reporting for UK SMEs: Where to Start in 2026
ESG reporting — disclosing how your business performs on Environmental, Social, and Governance factors — has rapidly shifted from a large-company concern to a mainstream business expectation. UK SMEs are increasingly being asked to provide ESG information by customers, procurement teams, lenders, and investors — and the regulatory direction of travel is towards more, not […]
