Our Sustainability 2025 Report Card 

This is a key milestone on our sustainable journey; and in true dramatic style before I reveal the results; here’s the 2024 to 2025 season recap: 

We have stress tested our data collection rationale and processes; the aim to ensure we have high confidence in the data sets which would ensure action planning could be efficient and focused, whilst also helping to establish a benchmark that can be used to measure our successes and highlight our challenges. 

We convened a strategic working group to sandbox our approach to sustainable issues and the ambitions for our work streams.  This platform enabled a framework to be produced that would go on to be developed into a new action plan focused on achieving our strategic objectives. 

We then produced a new action plan; split out from our ambitions into business strands and key objectives with outcomes for differing departments within the company. 

We shared, talked, listened, reflected and adapted. 

As we head into 2026, we have been taking stock, gathering thoughts and reflecting:  

Firstly, our action plan was reviewed with the Sustainability Working Group and areas that are working and areas requiring a refocus or improvement were highlighted. We are being ambitious with our approach so not unexpectedly there is a mix of successes and areas of improvement:  

• Doing well – Repositioning Sustainability within the company mix, developing good data collection processes, measuring and reducing scope 2 emissions.  
• Could do better – Procurement processes in line with good sustainability practices, waste split and management. 

Secondly, we got to see the 2025 data results which can now be benchmarked against the previous year. In the next few years, we will be able to chart trends and changes in our emissions that further inform and evolve are approaches to minimising our impact on the planet. The top line assessment is good: 

• Doing Well - Our overall C02 equivalent in tonnes has dropped from 137.04 in 2024 to 90 in 2025, a decrease of 34%.  

A key contributor to this can be seen from our new solar array being operational throughout the year, with an increase in generation of 246%. And generally, across each of our measurement sectors we are decreasing our emissions in smaller percentages, but the overall collective endeavour is adding to a greater result as a whole.  

• Could do better - We have a marked increase of impact in hotel accommodation, fleet and personal fuel expenses.  

We recognise there will be fluctuations in our impact as company growth, turnover, and geographic area of operations have a large determining factor on where our focuses should be. A reflection of this is our work in the North East last year showing a spike in fleet travel and hotel stays. We will continue to ensure train travel is considered a priority and its environmental impact further weighted against cost and convenience of other modes of transportation. 

The 2025 Report Card is a positive one, doing well overall with areas of improvement. 

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