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BERR

Info:  BERR website provides information about the priorities and policies of the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform and its delivery partners. BERR also provides a range of practical assistance to business.

Claros Consulting

Info:  Claros are leading independent consultants on sustainable and responsible investment (SRI), corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). We provide advice for fund managers, pension funds, corporations, policymakers and NGOs. At the core of much of our work is our ability to identify the financial and business potential of social and environmental issues.

Coethica

Info:  We are a limited company founded on embedded ethical values, we offer specialist expertise across the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) spectrum to private, public and voluntary sector organisations whatever shape or size.

Business responsibility is a rapidly emerging management area focusing an organisation’s ethos toward balancing economic, social and environmental impact. Most businesses already consider these impacts even if they don't call it CSR, but the maximum benefits from a strategic identification of relevant opportunities are very often missed.

Co-operatives UK

eaga

Info:  eaga is the UK’s leading provider of residential energy efficiency solutions, but we stand for more than just energy efficiency. We’re a people business with more than 4,000 Partners (our employees) committed to outstanding customer service in Government Contracts, Installation and Specialist Businesses.

Since our establishment in 1990 we’ve been at the forefront of environment, energy efficiency and social justice agendas across the UK, with operations in Canada, India and Ireland.

We are now an emerging force in providing solutions to climate change challenges. Central to our success is our commitment to the principles of employee ownership (eaga Partners) and our strong corporate and social values.

While we didn’t invent corporate and social responsibility it has always been at the heart of our organisation as we care for our Partners, our customers and our communities and are actively reducing our carbon and environmental impact.

ec3 global

Info:  By participating in the Green Globe Programme annually you have a powerful framework to help aid your organisations strategic and decision making processes. Whether you are a Company or a Community you can easily monitor your organisation's performance and therefore identify areas that need attention. Green Globe participants are continually challenged to improve their environmental performance over time, and organisations have indicated that the annual benchmark report is highly beneficial to them as they pursue best practice.

ECIS Corporate Critic

Info:  The ECIS Corporate Critic Research Database is a project of ECRA (the Ethical Consumer Research Association/ECRA Publishing Ltd). ECRA was founded in 1988 as a not-for-profit workers' co-operative to 'provide information on the companies behind the brand names and to promote the ethical use of consumer power.' It has published Ethical Consumer magazine since 1989, and now offers a range of other products designed to encourage purchasers to take environmental and social issues into account in the market place.

Economic Partnerships Limited

Info:  A team with long experience of most aspects of social enterprise. We have been involved in government policy development, planned and managed multi-million pound projects, helped establish some of the most successful social enterprises around, written books... and much else besides.

Ethical Company Organisation

Info:  ETHICAL SHOPPING RESEARCH - The Ethical Company Organisation's research team provides the world's leading clear and comparative ethical shopping information on thousands of companies and brands to ethical shoppers, NGOs, ethical companies and government. Our researchers compare ethical and Corporate Social Responsibility records in relation to up to 15 different ethical criteria, including environmental and human rights records, food standards, animal welfare and involvement in the arms trade.

ethical consumer

Info:  Is the UK's leading alternative consumer organisation. We research the social and environmental records of companies worldwide and we have been uncovering the truth behind the brand names, and supporting the growth of the ethical market, since 1987.

Ethical Consumer is a not-for-profit co-operative, totally independent of corporate interests, and dedicated to the promotion of universal human rights, environmental sustainability and animal welfare. It publishes unique Buyers' Guides to products which rate the companies behind the brands and recommends Best Buys.

We have been a driving force behind the ethical consumer movement for the last 20 years. Our funding comes entirely from our readers' subscriptions, adverts from ethically vetted companies and consultancy work for campaign groups and ethical organisations. Our unique ratings database is updated daily by a dedicated team of researchers, tracking over 50,000 companies.

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