2025 Impact Report
Governance
Saying what we mean. Doing what we say.
Strong governance underpins our commitments to clients, people, communities and the environment, building transparency and accountability into the decisions that guide us today and into the future.
What we've achieved in 2025:
Last year, we shared the following impact goals to:
- Conduct a materiality assessment before B Corp recertification and our next strategic plan in 2027.
- Increase support for purpose driven enterprises and projects and report on progress in 2026 impact report.
- Incorporate a net zero and biodiversity course for all new joiners.
Our progress on these goals:
- Set a budget for an impact materiality assessment in 2026 and created a shortlist of consultants to advise us on an effective approach.
- Supported 168 purpose driven clients, 20 of which were new clients.
- Continued in our second year as an Impact Partner to The Conduit and helped them launch the UK’s first FloodAction Coalition.
- Identified relevant net zero and biodiversity courses to add to the B Corp channel on our Learning Management System.
The Cripps difference
Listening and learning from our employees
Our people are what make us tick, so it’s essential our plans are shaped by meaningful insight into what’s working and what isn’t. In 2025, after feedback on engagement and accessibility, we shifted our quarterly updates from written posts to video—more than doubling engagement. We also introduced a hybrid AGM with live and pre‑submitted questions, creating space for open dialogue with leadership. Alongside this, Engage@Cripps brought colleagues together from across the business to help shape the employee experience and contributed to the impact areas highlighted in this report. This ongoing conversation helps us make better decisions and connect our people, our purpose and our strategy.
Next generation B Corp: What the new standards mean for us
Business performance extends beyond pure financial results and while we recognise this, we also feel the tension between short‑term financial pressure and long‑term value creation. Investing in people, communities, and the environment often delivers long‑term benefits, but these are harder to measure, slower to realise, and not always reflected in traditional performance metrics.
The new B Corp standards, on which we plan to recertify in 2027, provide a new framework that places greater emphasis on measurable impact, clear accountability and alignment with emerging regulation. Far from being a compliance exercise, the standards provide a practical, five‑year roadmap to strengthen our social and environmental performance while supporting sustainable, profitable growth.
As a B Corp, we are differentiating ourselves in a sector where few Top 100 law firms are certified. We are strengthening our ability to support our clients’ responsible business ambitions, building trust through credible, measurable action and identifying opportunities to work alongside clients to turn society’s most pressing challenges into opportunities for shared, long-term value.
Our ambitions for 2026:
- Complete our impact materiality assessment across stakeholder groups before the end of 2026.
- Incorporate findings from the assessment into our 2027 action plans to sharpen and prioritise our impact focus and understand the specific difference we can make with and for our clients.
- Embed sustainability awareness across the firm by testing and sharing learning content aligned to our firm’s material issues and our client sectors.