ESG
AT SIDEKICK

TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE REPORTING

We’re your Sidekick. We work quietly behind the scenes to create work environments that optimise productivity, team spirit and wellbeing, all while enhancing your ESG performance. We strive to make your buildings as clean and hospitable as those people would pay to stay at, and we do it with more financial and carbon efficiency than anyone.  

With sustainability being a central tenet of our philosophy and business model, we have embraced and implemented triple bottom line accounting in order to capture the social, environmental and financial aspects of our performance and impacts of our activities, and those of our key customers. This has included the introduction of two key management frameworks to help us organise, dashboard and manage every element of our contracts with two additional metrics to work alongside top-line revenue and bottom-line profit. 

 

 

 

B CORP CERTIFICATION

From inception our first ESG milestone was to become B Corp Certified. The B Impact Assessment process evaluated our practices and outputs across all five areas of our business; Governance, Workers, Community, Environment and Customers. We proudly earned a score of 83.4, where ordinary businesses score 50.9, and were B Corp certified in June 2023. In so doing we join a movement of over 2000 companies across the UK, and 6000 globally, who are leading the change our grandchildren will thank us for.

Certification is not the end of the road, it’s the start. Since becoming certified we have assembled an ESG taskforce to drive forward sustainable partnerships and processes at each level of our value chain.

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CARBON REDUCTION

We believe in ambitious corporate climate action in line with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), and we deliver carbon and resource efficiencies to our customers by breaking down every complex task – from product sourcing, through labour mobilisation to recycling strategy – into the smallest steps and looking to continuously improve at each one of them. By doing so, you enjoy the large-scale aggregate effects. 

We harness state-of-the-art technology to precisely quantify your carbon data. Our seasoned team ensures thorough consideration of every operational facet, providing an all-encompassing view of your environmental impact. From product purchase to waste, we meticulously analyse every aspect of your operations to uncover opportunities for Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction. Our detailed reporting enables you to monitor progress over time, empowering you to make informed decisions to advance sustainability objectives.

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SOCIAL VALUE

We evaluate the social value linked to your contract using the National TOMs Framework. The framework consists of circa 80 TOMs (Themes, Outcomes and Measures) and aligns to the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Social value is captured across 5 priority areas: jobs, growth, social, environment, and innovation, with impact being measured in £ Social & Local Economic Value (SLEV) across contracts. 

We believe and expect that delivering social value and commercial returns will be mutually reinforcing over time. We therefore intend to integrate social impact across all business strategies, key decisions, in dealings with our customers and across our supply chains. 

Example TOM: FM1/NT1 (JOBS) No. of full time equivalent direct local employees (FTEs) hired or retained for the duration of the contract.

total direct FTE on contract in period x £41,977 proxy = £ SLEV

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