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ESG and Sustainability credentials are becoming a must. From finding your Carbon Footprint, to Sustainability Assurance, ESG diagnostics to B Corp support, we help businesses looking to improve their corporate responsibility.
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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.
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, our team can help you with the big stuff. Our Carbon Footprint Finder will help you establish exactly how you’re doing now and assist you in setting goals for the future. Our B Corp Support and Sustainability Assurance will give you a helping hand on those journeys to certification and reporting. And our ESG Diagnostic and Reporting will allow you to recognise areas for improvement.
Read more about how we can help you, below.
Our annual Impact Report for FY25 has landed. And it’s more comprehensive, more insightful and more ambitious than any of its predecessors.
CP’s Carbon Footprint Finder calculates your full carbon footprint (Scopes 1, 2 & 3), so you can start setting targets and improving your impact.
Calculating your company’s carbon footprint is a decisive step in assessing your environmental impact and implementing strategies to reduce your carbon emissions. It’s also your first step towards net zero credible commitments.
Knowing your carbon footprint will drive cost savings, will enhance brand reputation and will give you competitive advantage.
Whether you have mandatory emissions requirements (i.e. SECR and CSRD), or you want to get ahead of the market, Cooper Parry’s Sustainability team can help.
Working alongside industry experts, we’ve launched a comprehensive software platform to calculate your Scope 1, 2 & 3 emissions. That’s your entire operations, including supply chain.
Our tool automates the carbon emissions calculation process whilst significantly reducing the cost and resources used for such an assessment.
We often get asked, “what does scope 1,2 and 3 emissions cover?”
CP’s Carbon Footprint Finder is able to calculate all the categories listed above, and it’s aligned with the GHG Protocol. Companies of all sizes, industries and geographies can comprehensively measure, report and track carbon emissions using the software and our expertise.
We also have proprietary emission factors for Scope 3 emissions, making calculations much easier and more accurate.
The CP Carbon Footprint Finder platform makes it simple for anyone to input data and calculate emissions as it uses ‘non-scientific’ prompts for what data to upload alongside detailed guides. We’ll give you all the technical support you need on this too!
If you have any questions, or you’d like to find out more about the benefits the platform can bring to your business, get in touch.
Download our Data Helper Tool designed to help you understand what data to include to create a robust organisational footprint within our software.
Upload your data from energy, water, waste, travel, freight, manufacturers, materials purchased, cloud host providers and much more.
In the past, this was the hard part. Our software completes it all for you to create your organisation’s scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reports.
Now you know your carbon footprint, use your baseline to create targets and compare results year-on-year, or more regularly, to monitor your progress.
Whether it’s mandatory or voluntary ESG reporting, Cooper Parry can help you prepare everything you need with time to spare.
ESG reporting can be a complex, time-consuming exercise. Littered with acronyms and technical language, we often call the landscape an ‘Alphabet Soup’. And if you don’t have the resource, or you’re not completely clued up, it can leave a bad taste in your mouth.
At Cooper Parry, our Impact Beyond Business team support companies with their mandatory and voluntary reporting.
Be it TCFD, GRI, ISSB or a wider Impact Report, we offer pragmatic and simple sustainability reporting solutions, freeing up your team and providing the knowledge you need to keep pace in a fast-moving landscape.
We’ll support you through the full journey:
“We began our Scope 3 journey in early 2022, and in the two years since, have taken great strides in identifying and measuring our value chain emissions. It therefore felt the right time to get our data and methodologies independently reviewed before moving to the next stage.
This is where CP came in. Nicoleta engaged with our team, asking the right questions and providing relevant and timely guidance. The project was delivered on time and on budget, and the resulting report fitted the original brief perfectly, reviewing all aspects of Scope 3 carbon reporting and providing detailed findings, backed up with appropriate guidance.
We found CP very easy to work with, a perfect balance of energy, dynamism and professionalism with excellent underpinning knowledge. Working with CP has also opened up a host of networking opportunities, with like-minded individuals and organisations.”
MARK TUCKER, HEAD OF HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT
MARSTON HOLDINGS LTD
Looking for independent assurance on your ESG reporting and metrics? Perhaps you have a sustainability linked loan that needs 3rd party verification?
Cooper Parry’s Sustainability team can help.
We work with businesses of all sizes and structures, helping them with their assurance reports and offering assurance over their targets.
So, however big or small your business is – and wherever you are on your ESG journey – we can help you spot any gaps, guarantee present and future compliance, and align all your ESG activities for maximum impact.
Our third-party verification is prepared in accordance with ISAE (UK) 3000 and/or ISAE 3410, as well as proprietary methodologies. It provides either limited or reasonable assurance, depending on the stakeholders’ requirements.
Assurance and 3rd party verification exercises will be unique to each company so our approach will be tailored to your specific circumstances and reporting requirements.
If you’d like to find out more about how we can support your ESG journey, get in touch.
“Cooper Parry supported us in certifying our offsetting methods, thereby ensuring transparency and accountability. The process was straightforward, with CP interviewing the Blacklane team to understand the governance and review processes, analysing and testing the key structures, systems and controls, and performing recalculations to corroborate the tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted, carbon credits purchased, and the carbon credits retired.
CP really assisted us in achieving milestones as we reduce the impact of carbon emissions through our business.”
RENÉ VAN OLST, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
BLACKLANE
Thinking about becoming a B Corp? Cooper Parry can guide and advise you through the journey to B Corp certification.
People want to work for and buy from businesses that are making a positive impact on our planet and local communities. In a noisy marketplace, B Corp certification has become a powerful way for companies to differentiate themselves, prove their sustainability credentials, and show they’re walking the walk.
To become a B Corp, your business has to meet stringent criteria and answer over 200 questions. The process can be time-consuming. Throw in the day-to-day running of your business, and typical lack of resource is an all-too-common hurdle for budding B Corps.
Our approach enables your teams to minimise their time investment, and we guide the entire process to maximise learning opportunities.
Almost half of businesses fail on their first attempt to certify as a B Corp. But every single client we’ve helped through the frameworks has certified on their first attempt.
By working with Cooper Parry, you can get the most out of your B Corp assessment in the least amount of time, so you can focus on impact innovation.
Here’s how we can help:
Our own certification came in February 2023, and we’re still the UK’s largest accountancy B Corp. Three years in the making, it became the blueprint for how we operate. Now, and in the future.
Having seen how transformative the process has been at CP, rocket-fuelling our Net Zero goal, internal and external engagement, and so much more, we’re passionate about helping other businesses join the movement.
“Cooper Parry helped us with the completion of our first B Corp assessment, providing a colleague to assist with finalising the entry, the submission of evidence and the verification interview. CP took a ‘critical friend’ approach and played a big part in us achieving certification and successfully evidencing areas where the assessor challenged.
We would certainly recommend that anyone preparing a B Corp application or similar should consider CP to help with the process.”
PETE VAUGHAN, STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL LTD
Want to find out more about how we can support your B Corp journey? Get in touch.
We can manage your SECR reporting in house. No juggling various or multiple third-party providers or worrying about compliance deadlines – we’ve got it covered.
If you’re ticking off two or more or the requirements below, you’re obligated to report:
– Turnover of £36m or above
– £25m on the balance sheet
– 250 or more employees
Our approach to SECR combines clarity, speed, and sector-led insight, ensuring your reporting is accurate, timely, and stress free.
By choosing CP for your SECR, you’ll benefit from:
– End-to-end support from our experienced professionals
– Seamless integration with your existing reporting and statutory audit processes
– Clear, actionable insights to drive energy efficiency and sustainability
As a B Corp ourselves and the Best Sustainable Accountancy Firm at the 2025 RISE Awards, we’re the rebels of accountancy –delivering big-firm capability with boutique energy and people-first service.
Independence is vital to us from an audit perspective and if you are an audit client of Cooper Parry, we can still provide this service (with the exclusion of AIM Listed Entities or Other Entities of Public Interest). Our Sustainability specialists are able to liaise directly with the audit team in order to ‘cut out the middle man’, however they remain a separate team and work independently of the audit team to maintain full compliance and objectivity.
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Rhona Pearce
Making a difference in the world is more important than ever. Minimising our impact on the environment and reducing waste and pollution is an ongoing challenge, but it’s one we take very seriously - from board level to our most junior employees.
NICOLETA VOICU
Making a difference in the world is more important than ever. Minimising our impact on the environment and reducing waste and pollution is an ongoing challenge, but it’s one we take very seriously – from board level to our most junior employees.
NICOLETA VOICU
Making a difference in the world is more important than ever. Minimising our impact on the environment and reducing waste and pollution is an ongoing challenge, but it’s one we take very seriously – from board level to our most junior employees.
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”Very good, very receptive , very pragmatic which is very welcome from an auditor.”
“We used the payroll service, and whilst it may seem strange that having recently changed to another provider, to give a 4 star rating, the move was simply because of commercial considerations ( the new provider becoming a sponsor of the football team). The service we had from yourselves was excellent in being exceptionally flexible given our own issues with not always giving timely details for the weekly wage comps, altering them after first draft of payroll etc. Staff often made themselves available outside office hours to complete the payment process.”
“Great team with knowledge experts that are brilliant at rallying together when there is an urgent topic that needs covering – however fees are slightly expensive vs. LFL providers/legal firms”
“Always very helpful staff in terms of explaining and walking through processes with us. The audit and tasks are completed on time”
“The communication from Jess, Jo and Glen has been superb. They are all very approachable and it’s a pleasure to work with them. I also find the online portal Inflo to be very user friendly and easy to use. Communication with the more junior members of the team can sometimes be a bit of a challenge if they aren’t fully certain on the questions they ask however this is completely understandable with them being at the start of their career journey. They are also very approachable and keen to ensure the correct outcome is reached.”
”From the audit & tax side – We have had a great experience, and the teams are always willing to help, they are knowledgeable and willing to ensure we get what we need from them. However, one new addition to CP is the joining of 3RP – we have not had a good experience with them, they were brought on to help with our NetSuite inventory flows, this was unsuccessful and we have decided to scrap the whole project as they weren’t able to solve our issue and getting the focus we needed from them just wasn’t there.”
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