Our B Corp Story

This was the very first accreditation in the UK for sustainability and we were the first agency to gain it. Whilst the system was a little clunky, it was the beginning of tracking outputs for us as a business.  

Born out of BS2908 and the 2012 London Olympics, this new international standard set the benchmarks for a more practical global standard. We were the first agency to receive the standard and we worked directly with the accreditation body to improve the system, reduce bureaucracy and create a user-friendly system for tracking. We continue to be at the forefront of this standard and to this day we get audited every 12 months to keep standards at their highest level. ISO standards are measurement-led and ensure that as an agency, we deliver on what we promise and our KPIs are met.

We were the first and sadly last creative comms agency to be awarded. Following the Queen’s passing, this is now the King’s Award for Enterprise. It took us five years and three attempts to meet the standard. Much of the criteria is people-focused and how they engage with our continuous sustainable development. The assessors look at all 17 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and how we are involved in the community. 

B Corp is a global standard and is relatively new compared to our other accreditations. Its focus is on purpose and social responsibility. Very quickly, B Corp is becoming one of the global leading standards for the corporate world across all sectors. The accreditation process is rigorous and has taken us over two years to be assessed, with many questions and calls for evidence to back up our claims. B Corp has been our most difficult standard to attain (for good reason!), and we are immensely proud to say we are now a B Corporation.

Check out this video with our CEO, Dale Parmenter, talking about the importance of B Corp and what it means to DRPG.