Green your contracts

Making changes to your contracts (both external and internal) can be a great place to start if you want to become a more purpose & impact driven business. 

Whether you’re a business or a charity, our team can tailor any contract to ensure your ESG goals are achieved.  Our team of expert lawyers can walk you through small and efficient steps to ensure your goals are achieved and that embedding Purpose & Impact into your business aligns directly with your strategy.

By rooting these changes into the heart and soul of your business, we can help you to create a ripple effect of positive impact throughout your organisation.

We can:

Drive sustainability throughout your supply chain

We create supplier contracts and agreements that support you to measure impact and drive values and sustainability down supply chains

Embed equity, diversity & inclusion at your core:

We can ensure EDI is at the heart of what you do by:

Developing employment contracts and handbooks that embed a positive approach to EDI

Developing contracts and supplier agreements that put EDI considerations at the core of the relationship

 

Heighten and measure your purpose:

We can help to review all contracts to bring them into line with your values and purpose, including:

Creating employment contracts that are people friendly and easy to read and understand

Establishing employment handbooks that reflect purposeful and/ or B Corp values

Develop a Real estate strategy that addresses the environmental impacts of your building

Put governance systems in place that help hold you to account or embed a triple bottom line

Meet your climate commitments:

We put climate considerations at the core of your relationships by developing tailored contracts and supplier agreements.

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Creating a ‘Speak Up’ culture in purpose-driven businesses: The benefits of an effective whistleblowing framework

Bates Wells convenes the Impact Counsels’ Forum, a space for senior counsel working within impact investors, B Corps, and other purpose-driven businesses. The forum discusses the ‘impact angles’ on legal and practical issues faced by in-house legal teams. Recently, the forum explored the benefits an effective whistleblowing framework and how that can support an open …
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Using the law to create change – a new guide for charities and campaigning groups

In partnership with NEON, this new guide explains how your organisation can use the law to create meaningful change. Legal action is rarely enough to drive systemic change on its own, but the law can be a powerful tool for purpose-driven organisations, especially when combined with other tactics within a broader campaign strategy. The guide …
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Purpose & Impact: your roundup | June

Welcome to your roundup – a monthly selection of news hand-picked to keep you up to date with what’s going on for businesses and investors working to create positive impact. In this roundup you can find out what’s new in the B Corp, social enterprise, and impact investing spaces, amongst others, collated under helpful headings. …
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New company guide empowers UK company directors to embed sustainability information in financial reporting

Bates Wells has contributed to a new guide, issued by the True & Fair Project, to support UK company directors who have decided that information relating to sustainability issues is necessary for their accounts to give a true and fair view. ‘Are Your Financial Statements True and Fair?’ underscores directors’ legal obligation to consider sustainability …
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What’s next for UK environmental protection?

On 24 January, the Climate and Nature (CAN) Bill was ‘adjourned’ to 11 July after politicians were denied the opportunity for a ‘free vote’ to advance the Bill to its next stage. Instead, the government has promised that next steps will include binding commitments to advance the CAN Bill’s objectives, including for legislation. We considered …
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