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Free ESG Assessment Tool

Free Charity & Social Enterprise Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Tool

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What is ESG?

The concept of Environmental, Social and Governance originated as a principle to guide investors towards making more ethical and/or responsible investments. More recently, ESG has evolved to encompass the work undertaken by charities and other not-for-profit organisations, who are expected (often more than most), to corroborate their social mission goals with evidence that they are having a beneficial impact on society and the environment.

According to the Charity Commission’s annual research, the public want to understand how money is spent, and know that a charity achieves its purpose, makes a difference and operates to high ethical standards.

Eastside People’s ESG Consultancy Services

Our services are geared towards helping organisations to assess their starting point with good baseline data and then to develop and improve their practice.

We provide support in each of the Environmental, Social or Governance practice areas, helping organisations to move through different maturity levels – from starting out to developing to advancing and then advanced.

Depending upon your organisation’s level of ESG maturity you can choose where to start within any of the 6 options listed below.

While there is real appetite from organisations across the sector to engage with ESG, most organisations (67%) do not yet have a basic ESG strategy, and very few have a holistic, fully integrated strategy (3%).

Eastside People's ESG Survey Edition 1

A breakdown of our ESG Consultancy Services

Option 1: Self-Assessment

Complete our free ESG Assessment and Benchmarking Tool to understand your organisation’s starting point. You can sign up to complete the survey once a year during its opening period (next dates are between 27th May 2025 & 25th July 2025).

You will receive an individual report highlighting what is working well in your organisation and identifying areas for improvement.

Visit our ESG Resources Page to sign up for the next edition of the survey, download a copy of the most recent overall ESG report and the questions asked and watch our report launch webinar.

Option 2: Free Consultation

Book a free 30 minute consultation to discuss your ESG self-assessment and priorities with a specialist consultant.

Option 3: In-depth ESG Assessment

Building on your self-assessment (if you have completed the survey, received a free consultation or undertaken your own internal review), we can provide:

An overall ESG analysis and review of your organisation or alternatively an evaluation of one of more of the three ESG elements:

An Environmental (including carbon) impact assessment (positive and negative) across your ENTIRE operations. This includes benchmarking the impacts against peers, regulatory obligations and voluntary commitments/targets
A Social impact assessment covering workforce practices and approach to impact measurement (including areas such as staff wellbeing and work considerations, impact on beneficiaries and the wider community and EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion)
A Governance assessment covering areas such as board development, governance practices (including those related to the Charity Governance Code such as external evaluations and length of service) and diversity.

Option 4: Action Plans

Our specialist consultants work with you and your team to develop an action plan to address the identified material issues and set environmental, social and governance KPIs. This process is supported with active data collection and on-going monitoring and review.

Option 5: Training

Bespoke overall ESG training or training on one or more of the separate elements of ESG for staff and management. This can include awareness and technical training and aims to build your team’s confidence and skills in alignment with the goals identified in the action plan.

Option 6: Reporting

Development and publication of a sustainability or impact report – covering your organisation’s positive and negative impacts and contributions to the environment and society.

As a full-service consultancy and recruitment agency for the charity and not-for-profit sector, we have expertise across the entirety of ESG and also on specific areas of interest including:

Assessing the strengths of your governance practice against the principles in the Charity Governance Code
Evaluating the board’s balance of skills, experience and diversity
Exploring how the board works together in a safe environment
Recruiting for greater diversity
Developing systems to measure and manage your impact
Creating a workforce development plan.

What Our Clients Say

We ask all our clients for feedback, find out what they have to say.

We wanted to undertake the survey to reflect on our performance as a charity in relation to ESG, to access benchmarked data and obtain examples of good practice.

Alison Taylor, Chief Executive

Carers First

We found frameworks for assessing where we were on ESG matters didn't fit well for a charity (e.g. B Corp is just "not for charities"), so we were pleased to have something relevant that guided self-assessment.

Dan Oaker, Deputy Director - Finance & Resources

National Children's Bureau (NCB)

As we are beginning the process of trying to develop our approach to ESG, it seemed like this survey might spark some interesting trains of thought and provide insight into the most effective and appropriate ways that we can evolve our approach to ESG.

Kerry Gray, Operations Manager

Cardiac Risk in the Young

Board members have an annual review – not appraisal but have 121 with the chair of the board. The Code of Governance was reviewed by two of our own board members. We have trustee visits to departments and our retail outlets to demonstrate well-led and also create good working relationships with staff. This allows board members to have feedback first-hand. Our board members are engaged and supportive of the senior leadership team. They are responsive to communications and do attend hospice events on their own time.

Shelley Burrows, Director of Governance and Quality

St Andrew’s Hospice

We have recently introduced a four-day working week (or a 20% reduction in hours for part-time staff) with no reduction in pay. Our staff have complete freedom in how they use their nonworking day – volunteering, studying, other employment, caring responsibilities, or hobbies/relaxation. A 6-month pilot was robustly evaluated and demonstrated significant benefits in terms of both flexibility and health and wellbeing.

Jo Land, CE)

Avenues Group

Sally Hutchings, Director of Business Support

Brook

We provide digital and data platforms, so servers and equipment are our largest environmental impacts. Actions included: Changing our host to one which uses renewable energy and reducing our data and backups to reduce the number of servers used and consolidating platforms on servers.

Tania Cohen, Chief Executive

360Giving

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Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG)

A breakdown of our ESG Consultancy Services

Option 1: Self-Assessment

Option 2: Free Consultation

Option 3: In-depth ESG Assessment

Option 4: Action Plans

Option 5: Training

Option 6: Reporting

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