IMPACT BEYOND BUSINESS

FROM ENVIRONMENT TO CULTURE AND MORE

People. Planet. Profit. The three priorities in our push for sustainability on all fronts, as we use our growth to improve and increase the impact CP has, Beyond Business.

From the environment (we’re proud to be the UK’s largest accountancy B Corp) and our multi-award-winning culture to our diversity & inclusion team and our firm-wide Volunteering days, each piece in the puzzle gets people better educated and helps us build a better tomorrow.

Find out more about some of our initiatives below. We’d love to hear about yours too. So, if you’d like to have a chat or swap some ideas, get in touch and we’ll get straight back to you.

IMPACT REPORT

Measuring and improving our impact on people and the planet is in our DNA. It’s an ongoing journey – and one with no finish line – but we take pride in everything we’re doing to make a difference.

In this, the first of our annual Impact Reports, we wanted to shed some light on that journey. The highs. The lows. And everything we’ve learnt along the way. In the hope that you can find some takeaways of your own to keep driving positive change in this collective mission.

Throughout the report, you’ll hear about the legacy, transformation and values of CP, our entrance into the B Corp world, and of course, our impact. Specifically, how we’re measuring it and how we’re keeping it at the forefront of everyone’s minds as we grow quickly.

Read Our Impact Report

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WE’RE B CORP, BUT THE JOURNEY DOESN’T STOP HERE
We’re committed to using CP as a force for good. Measuring our impact at all levels, across all stakeholders, and holding ourselves to the highest standards – for our people, clients, communities, and the environment.
That’s why we’re proud to be the UK’s largest accountancy B Corp, joining the business movement tackling society’s greatest challenges.
Now, we’re targeting net zero by 2030, with a 50% reduction in our greenhouse gas emissions by 2026.
Between FY20 and FY22, our electricity consumption fell by 39%, business travel decreased by 63%, and 90% of the electricity we now consume comes from REGOs-backed renewable sources. We’ve also revamped our purchasing policy to focus on locally sourced, environmentally friendly products.
Our Diversity & Inclusion team continue to embed inclusivity and a celebration of diversity into our culture, improving the accessibility of our recruitment process and training all our people to better understand the importance and nuance of Diversity & Inclusion.
We’re transparent. We’re accountable. And with so much happening at CP – and still so much to learn – we’re always up for sharing ideas and ground-breaking ways to support each other and make an impact that goes beyond profit.
That way, we can build stronger, healthier, and more sustainable businesses. Together.
Check out our official B Corp profile here.
BUILDING A CULTURE THAT’S A CUT ABOVE THE REST
If you sliced Cooper Parry open (more cake, less autopsy), you’d find one flavour oozing out above all others: culture.
It counts for so much here, guiding how we treat each other, how we work with you, our awesome clients, and how we make sure CP has a long-lasting, positive impact on our people, communities, and the environment.
Trust is at its core. Brought to life by open holiday, ‘Work From Anywhere. Anytime. Forever’ and our innovative 100-80-100 experiment (you may know it as the 4-day working week, but we’re trying something a little different), we give our people the power to work whenever, wherever, however suits them.
Whisk in a multi-award-winning wellbeing strategy, unrivalled benefits and a showstopping social calendar, and you’ve got a recipe for people feeling happy, fulfilled, and motivated. Every single day.
In return, we ask for one thing: produce incredible work. And judging by our industry-leading NPS scores and satisfaction ratings, boy do they oblige.
Our in-house Sustainability team measure and improve our impact on the environment, sharing tips with everyone across CP, so they can make planet-powered changes in their own lives. And in February 2023, we became the UK’s largest accountancy B Corp.
Our Diversity & Inclusion team embed inclusivity and a celebration of diversity into our culture, improving the accessibility of our recruitment process and training all our people to better understand the importance and nuance of Diversity & Inclusion. In particular, their campaigns on neurodiversity and eating disorders have really struck a chord in recent times, sparking important discussion and warm support, CP-wide.
We love volunteering too. It’s how we give back to our communities and make a difference Beyond Business. We work with the brilliant onHand to give our people easy access to volunteering opportunities in their local areas, every day. And we commit our Community Day every year, when we all log off and head out to support the causes that matter to us.
By maintaining a laser-focus on culture, we’ve become a permanent feature in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list, and the Best Accountancy Firm to Work For in the UK.
So yeah, it means everything here. And while we know we’ll never have all the answers, that won’t stop us trying. Drop us a note and we can swap some ideas. We’re always eager to learn, especially over coffee.
Corporate Social Responsibility all sounds so, well, dead dull and corporate. And that’s just not us. 
But we love what it stands for: doing the right thing. Not as an obligation but knowing that it can make
a real difference. At a tiny day-to-day level and in a big picture/big planet kind of way.
That’s why we do loads of different things to help the environment and get stuck in with different cool
projects in and around our community.
Giving back is part of our DNA at Cooper Parry, which is why we’ve joined forces with  onHand the
online volunteering app. As a company, we want to start doing more good in the local community and
leaving a positive impact.
onHand’s award-winning solution aims to make employee volunteering as easy as ordering a
takeaway and looks to combat some of society’s biggest challenges facing the world today.
Our partnership means our people can volunteer for the causes that matter the most to them. They
get can be matched with activities such as befriending phone calls to tackle loneliness, food drops to
local food banks, youth mentoring to inspire the next generations, eco-cleanups and helping the
elderly with simple tasks.
onHand also aims to support our sustainability goals by planting trees for all 500+ employees, starting
a CP forest that will increase in numbers based on the amount of local volunteering completed.
We also have a company-wide Community Day, where we log off and head out to support important
causes. In 2022, our people managed 1,286 hours of volunteering in one day. That equates to 53
days of impact. And we can’t wait to build on this with many more years of Community Days to
come.
“At Cooper Parry, our people drive our business, not the other way around. When we create a space where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, we create potential for more innovation, more productivity, and greater employee wellbeing.
As D&I Coordinator, I find it a real privilege to help CP lead the way in workplace inclusivity, disrupt societal norms and stereotypes that perpetuate inequity in the workplace, and make life count for all our people.”
– Lydia Stott, CP’s Diversity & Inclusion Coordinator
Our long-term D&I goals:
Have a diverse workforce reflective of the communities we are in.
Have full awareness of the challenges faced by individuals within CP and society and enact policies and individual support to minimise their impact.
Embed inclusivity and a celebration of diversity into the culture of CP.
Actively listen to those who are under-represented or who may face discrimination and amplify their voices within CP and in the wider community.
Work with external organisations to support the training of youth from diverse backgrounds to develop long-term diverse talent pools.
 We’re committed to helping out where we can, and we currently sponsor 32 students aged 15-18 from St Mark’s School in Hounslow to take part in the Ivy House Award.
The Fair Chance Fund programme targets students from disadvantaged backgrounds and offers a year-long extra-curricular activity focussed on developing future professional leaders.
The students learn leadership skills, gain an understanding of the workplace and business, and grow their self-confidence.
LOOKING AFTER OUR LOVELY PLANET
Looking after our planet is at the top of our agenda. A cornerstone of the CP values and a key part of
our commitment to using business as a force for good by meeting B Corp’s standards of social and
environmental accountability.
Across our offices, we have an Environmental Preferable Purchasing Policy which covers paper, food,
cleaning products and office supplies. Alongside this, we use 100% renewable energy at our Sky
View HQ. And over 75% of our energy use is produced from low-impact renewable energy sources.
Result.
We have conservation measures in place too, saving over 20% of our energy due to our lighting,
HVAC systems and equipment. Our 4 electric vehicle charging points make a difference at Sky View,
and they’re free to use if you’re ever visiting. We can’t wait to see how much CO2 we manage to save
going forward.
If you’re swinging by, bring your unwanted garments with you to pop in our Air Ambulance clothing
bank and we’ll get them recycled. Just remember to stick to our office dress code: “wear something.”
Our in-house Sustainability team are always sharing tips across CP to help us make better choices in
our lives as we aim to be net zero by 2030 with a 50% reduction by 2026. They’d love to swap some
ideas with you too. Get in touch via the form on the right and they’ll get back to you in a jiffy.
Cooper Parry has committed to set near- and long-term company-wide emission reductions in line
with science-based net-zero with the SBTi.

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

“At Cooper Parry, our people drive our business, not the other way around. When we create a space where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, we create potential for more innovation, more productivity, and greater employee wellbeing.

As D&I Advisor, I find it a real privilege to help CP lead the way in workplace inclusivity, disrupt societal norms and stereotypes that perpetuate inequity in the workplace, and make life count for all our people.”