2025 Charity Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Assessment Tool

The 2025 edition of the ESG Survey is open from Tuesday 27th May 2025 for two months until Friday 25th July 2025.

If you are interested in completing it for the 1st time, or completed it last year (in September and October 2024) and want to do it again to see how your results have changed, you can access the tool here.

Download the ESG Survey Question Set

If you would like to review the question set before completion, you can download the full set of of ESG questions here:

Information for Senior Leadership Teams and Boards about the ESG Assessment Tool: 

1. The tool is completely free of charge to use
2. It has been designed for all sizes of charities and not-for-profits from small grassroots to medium sized and national footprint organisations
3. We expect it will require 1-2 hours to complete depending on the level of disclosure and evidence you choose to provide
4. Survey users can to download the set of ESG questions here and share these with colleagues to make it easier to collate information
5. Collecting data for input and completing the survey alongside colleagues will give you a fantastic opportunity to explore issues of ESG as they impact your organisation
6. Once the survey has closed (on Friday 25th July 2025), we will create customised reports for every organisation that completed the survey in full,  showing how your responses compare to the sector as a whole
7. This report will be confidential to your organisation. It is first and foremost a development tool for you and your Board. It’s at your discretion whether you report your findings and share these with donors
8. We will also provide some tools and resources including highlighting organisations which are excelling in ESG, so that you can gain insight about how to improve and make progress
9. Trends emerging from the research will be collated once a year into a full, publicly available report
10. This is an annual recurring survey so that you’ll have the opportunity to complete it annually to assess what progress you have made. If you completed the survey in 2024 and complete the survey again in 2025 you will have:
    1. A Benchmark: With a 2nd year of data, we will be able to benchmark your updated responses against a larger dataset to provide more insight
    2. A Streamlined Process: Your responses from the 2024 survey will be visible in the tool, allowing you to update, amend, or leave them unchanged as needed, thus reducing the time required for input
    3. The Ability to Track Progression: You will receive a new individual report which can be shared with your board and other stakeholders to track how you have progressed
    4. Access to Essential Data for New Charity SORP Requirements: Using our tool to evaluate your organization’s ESG maturity can help you gather essential data needed to meet the reporting obligations under the new Charity SORP.

Download our 2 page ESG Services Fact Sheet

Learn what we found from the 2024 Edition of our ESG Survey

On 29th January 2025, we launched the overall 2024 Charity and Not-for-profit ESG Survey report findings (along with our ESG partner ACEVO).