Our Impact Report



As a B Corp, we’re committed to reporting on our impact in each year that we don’t certify. However, our Impact Reports don’t just meet that requirement. They help us to stay accountable and be transparent with our environmental goals, our people and our community. They put down a marker to show what we have done, the impact this has had, and how we want to improve.

We will continue with this work and, if by reading and engaging with this, others are influenced to join us, we are one step closer to our aim of creating positive social and environmental change and using law a force for good.

Our latest B Corp score, 140.2, puts us up there with some of the highest scoring B Corps, and makes us the only UK B Corp law firm to achieve a score over 100. We believe in transparency and action. We not only practise what we preach, we’re also working to change the way in which people do business.

Our latest impact report can be found here.

Our 2022 impact report can be found here.

Our 2021 impact report can be found here.

We will continue with this work and, if by reading and engaging with this, others are influenced to join us, we are one step closer to our aim of creating positive social and environmental change and using law a force for good.

There are still only three B Corp UK law firms. We believe in transparency and action. We not only practise what we preach, we’re also working to change the way in which people do business.

Visit impact.bateswells.co.uk to explore the report or download a PDF here

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