Impact Beyond Business
SUSTAINABILITY: WE FIND YOUR WHY & LIGHT IT UP
YOUR SUSTAINABILITY JOURNEY
Sustainability credentials are no longer a ‘nice to have’, they’re becoming a must. Getting ahead of the curve on sustainability signals the strength of your business, makes your purpose known, and helps you establish a leading position in your market segment.
A lot of clients ask us, “What’s the first step for me?”
Your sustainability journey isn’t just about reporting or being net zero. It’s about how you put forward a vision (your why), how you think about ESG transformation and integration, and how you weave that through your company from top to bottom, strategy to operations.
At Cooper Parry, we help you to simplify your sustainability journey and move towards sustainable business practices with a pragmatic, jargon-free, custom-made solution.
WE’RE B CORP, BUT THE JOURNEY DOESN’T STOP HERE
We’re committed to using CP as a force for good. Measuring our impact at all levels, across all stakeholders, and holding ourselves to the highest standards – for our people, clients, communities, and the environment.
That’s why we’re proud to be the UK’s largest accountancy B Corp, joining the business movement tackling society’s greatest challenges.
Now, we’re targeting net zero by 2030, with a 50% reduction in our greenhouse gas emissions by 2026.
Between FY20 and FY22, our electricity consumption fell by 39%, business travel decreased by 63%, and 90% of the electricity we now consume comes from REGOs-backed renewable sources. We’ve also revamped our purchasing policy to focus on locally sourced, environmentally friendly products.
Our Diversity & Inclusion team continues to embed inclusivity and a celebration of diversity into our culture, improving the accessibility of our recruitment process and training all our people to better understand the importance and nuance of Diversity & Inclusion.
We’re transparent. We’re accountable. And with so much happening at CP – and still so much to learn – we’re always up for sharing ideas and ground-breaking ways to support each other and make an impact that goes beyond profit.
That way, we can build stronger, healthier, and more sustainable businesses. Together.
Check out our official B Corp profile here.
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BUILDING A CULTURE THAT’S A CUT ABOVE THE REST
If you sliced Cooper Parry open (more cake, less autopsy), you’d find one flavour oozing out above all others: culture.
It counts for so much here, guiding how we treat each other, how we work with you, our awesome clients, and how we make sure CP has a long-lasting, positive impact on our people, communities, and the environment.
Trust is at its core. Brought to life by open holiday, ‘Work From Anywhere. Anytime. Forever’ and our innovative 100-80-100 experiment (you may know it as the 4-day working week, but we’re trying something a little different), we give our people the power to work whenever, wherever, however suits them.
Whisk in a multi-award-winning wellbeing strategy, unrivalled benefits and a showstopping social calendar, and you’ve got a recipe for people feeling happy, fulfilled, and motivated. Every single day.
In return, we ask for one thing: produce incredible work. And judging by our industry-leading NPS scores and satisfaction ratings, boy do they oblige.Our in-house Sustainability team measure and improve our impact on the environment, sharing tips with everyone across CP, so they can make planet-powered changes in their own lives. And in February 2023, we became the UK’s largest accountancy B Corp.
Our Diversity & Inclusion team embed inclusivity and a celebration of diversity into our culture, improving the accessibility of our recruitment process and training all our people to better understand the importance and nuance of Diversity & Inclusion. In particular, their campaigns on neurodiversity and eating disorders have really struck a chord in recent times, sparking important discussion and warm support, CP-wide.
We love volunteering too. It’s how we give back to our communities and make a difference Beyond Business. We work with the brilliant onHand to give our people easy access to volunteering opportunities in their local areas, every day. And we commit our Community Day every year, when we all log off and head out to support the causes that matter to us.
We love volunteering too. It’s how we give back to our communities and make a difference Beyond Business. We work with the brilliant onHand to give our people easy access to volunteering opportunities in their local areas, every day. And we commit our Community Day every year, when we all log off and head out to support the causes that matter to us.
By maintaining a laser-focus on culture, we’ve become a permanent feature in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list, and the Best Accountancy Firm to Work For in the UK.
So yeah, it means everything here. And while we know we’ll never have all the answers, that won’t stop us trying. Drop us a note and we can swap some ideas. We’re always eager to learn, especially over coffee.
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But we love what it stands for: doing the right thing. Not as an obligation but knowing that it can make
a real difference. At a tiny day-to-day level and in a big picture/big planet kind of way.That’s why we do loads of different things to help the environment and get stuck in with different cool
projects in and around our community.Giving back is part of our DNA at Cooper Parry, which is why we’ve joined forces with onHand the
online volunteering app. As a company, we want to start doing more good in the local community and
leaving a positive impact.onHand’s award-winning solution aims to make employee volunteering as easy as ordering a
takeaway and looks to combat some of society’s biggest challenges facing the world today.Our partnership means our people can volunteer for the causes that matter the most to them. They
get can be matched with activities such as befriending phone calls to tackle loneliness, food drops to
local food banks, youth mentoring to inspire the next generations, eco-cleanups and helping the
elderly with simple tasks.onHand also aims to support our sustainability goals by planting trees for all 500+ employees, starting
a CP forest that will increase in numbers based on the amount of local volunteering completed.We also have a company-wide Community Day, where we log off and head out to support important
causes. In 2022, our people managed 1,286 hours of volunteering in one day. That equates to 53
days of impact. And we can’t wait to build on this with many more years of Community Days to
come.
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LOOKING AFTER OUR LOVELY PLANET
Looking after our planet is at the top of our agenda. A cornerstone of the CP values and a key part of
our commitment to using business as a force for good by meeting B Corp’s standards of social and
environmental accountability.Across our offices, we have an Environmental Preferable Purchasing Policy which covers paper, food,
cleaning products and office supplies. Alongside this, we use 100% renewable energy at our SkyView HQ. And over 75% of our energy use is produced from low-impact renewable energy sources.
Result.We have conservation measures in place too, saving over 20% of our energy due to our lighting,
HVAC systems and equipment. Our 4 electric vehicle charging points make a difference at Sky View,
and they’re free to use if you’re ever visiting. We can’t wait to see how much CO2 we manage to save
going forward.If you’re swinging by, bring your unwanted garments with you to pop in our Air Ambulance clothing
bank and we’ll get them recycled. Just remember to stick to our office dress code: “wear something.”Our in-house Sustainability team are always sharing tips across CP to help us make better choices in
our lives as we aim to be net zero by 2030 with a 50% reduction by 2026. They’d love to swap some
ideas with you too. Get in touch via the form on the right and they’ll get back to you in a jiffy.Cooper Parry has committed to set near- and long-term company-wide emission reductions in line
with science-based net-zero with the SBTi.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
GET IN TOUCH WITH NICOLETA CIOBANU
Nicoleta Ciobanu
Head Of Sustainability
GET IN TOUCH WITH NICOLETA CIOBANU
OUR COMMITMENT
Our in-house Sustainability team measure and improve our impact on the environment, sharing tips with everyone across CP, so they can make planet-powered changes in their own lives. And in February 2023, we became the UK’s largest accountancy B Corp.
If you sliced Cooper Parry open (more cake, less autopsy), you’d find one flavour oozing out above all others: culture.
Our long-term D&I goals:
Have industry-leading diversity in our workforce, reflecting the diverse communities we are in.
Be a culture-driven workplace where we embrace inclusivity and celebrate unique perspectives.
Actively listen to and amplify the voices of those from marginalised backgrounds.
Proactively and equitably support everyone to bring their whole selves to work and achieve their best at CP.
Transform the future of accountancy by supporting the development of youth from underrepresented backgrounds.
We’re committed to helping out where we can, and we currently sponsor 32 students aged 15-18 from St Mark’s School in Hounslow to take part in the Ivy House Award.
The Fair Chance Fund programme targets students from disadvantaged backgrounds and offers a year-long extra-curricular activity focussed on developing future professional leaders.
The students learn leadership skills, gain an understanding of the workplace and business, and grow their self-confidence.
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