It’s official: We Made That are now 46% better!
25 September 2024
We Made That first certified as a B Corporation in 2021. Now, in 2024, we have been through our recertification process with external analysts to independently verify our impact all over again. A typical business in the UK achieves 50.9 through the B Corp Impact Assessment, and when we first achieved B Corp status we scored 85.3. With a new fully-verified score of 124.2, we’re proud that this puts us amongst the leading edge of purposeful architecture practices in the UK.
With a whopping 46% uplift in our measured positive impact, it has been a journey rather than a destination.
We’ve been interrogating the ways in which we deliver public good, and targeting improvements to make ourselves the best we can be. Our improvement has been across all pillars of the assessment, but it has been interesting to unpick how we’ve made this step change.
Externally, we’ve been concentrating on ways in which we use our business as a force for good. Our ethical, impactful purchasing and supply chains commitments set out targets for spending with local and independent suppliers, B Corporations, charitable organisations or Community Interest Companies. We know this can impact the economic and social well-being of the communities in which we operate - including putting our money where our mouth is when it comes to credentials, ownership and diversity makeup of our significant suppliers.
Internally, social and environmental performance principles have been more deeply incorporated into team culture and practices. They are locked into the ways we collectively do things. We also believe that creating and managing inclusive work environments through new levels of transparency - from pay equity to team-wide profit sharing and participatory budgeting of benefits - has been empowering.
Along this journey it’s heartening to see effort recognised: ‘Radical Collaboration’ through the Social Value Awards; frontrunners in regenerative approaches through Architecture Today’s 'Regenerative Architecture Index’; and shortlisted for Employer of The Year at Architect of the Year Awards 2024.
Obviously, there is more to do. We continue to work to improve our environmental impact in particular, and to address spatial justice across all of our projects and places in which we work. We look forward to the challenge of scaling and growing our impact further. We know this means working with others, collaborating and sharing knowledge.
For more details of our past impact, see our Impact Reports for 2022 and 2023.
