Our latest research, based on feedback from senior leaders in the public and social sector, highlights the challenges and progress being made within the sector. It also provides pragmatic insights into how you can move forward positively with social value and ESG.
We work with you to create an effective ESG strategy and help you integrate this into your wider organisation. We align your objectives to create long-term value for your organisation, your stakeholders, and wider society while sustaining and enhancing our natural resources for future generations.
We will support you in understanding the complexities in the detail of the commitment to embedding ESG strategically into your organisation by following 5 key steps:
ESG matters have become a 21st-century issue that all organisations need to address. The topic is broad and is likely to impact all aspects of your organisation in the coming years from meeting legal obligations and controlling costs to attracting and retaining staff and capital.
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One of the biggest challenges facing social housing providers on the road to Net Zero is securing the funding necessary to retrofit their housing stock. Retrofitting social housing stock is estimated to require an investment of over £100 billion. However, while the UK and Welsh Governments have in place funding projects such as the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund and Optimise Retrofit Schemes,...
As public and social sector organisations seek to reboot their workforce strategies in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, three pressure points arise.
The events of this summer – unprecedented and catastrophic flooding in Western Europe, China, and America – have really brought home for many people the realities of the climate emergency we face. It is refreshing to see that our survey indicates that public and social sector organisations recognise they have a leading role to play in combatting climate change.
Over the last couple of years, leaders in public and social sector organisations have been paying closer attention to ESG-related issues as part of their approach to strategic risk management. Social impact – the ‘S’ in ESG – is occupying significant executive time and focus.
Over the last 18 months at Mazars, we have witnessed a significant wave of interest from organisations on how to improve their approach to ESG and enhance their social value outcomes.
Andrew van Doorn, Chief Executive of HACT, the Housing Associations Charitable Trust, talks to us about how thinking around social value has changed in recent years within the sector, and how organisations can transition from a transactional to a transformative approach to social value.
Anita Pope, Director of Housing and Communities at Gloucester City Homes talks to us about how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped her organisation’s thinking on social value, and what steps they’ve taken to engage the community in their social value goals.
Mike Jordan, Councillor at Selby District Council talks to us about how the Council can help to address the changing priorities of residents and the challenges in delivering regeneration projects.
November 2021. Organisations have started to rethink the way they operate, with the climate emergency, rising economic inequalities and the pandemic all acting as catalysts for change.
Social value is a marathon, not a sprint.
The experience of the last 18 months has caused many people to re-evaluate their relationship with work. COVID-19 has prompted people to question how, when, and why they do the jobs they choose to do.
In October 2020 the NHS in England published its decarbonisation strategy, setting out its ambition to be the world’s first carbon net zero national health service.
Creating prosperous, safe and healthy communities has been ingrained into the core mission of public and social sector organisations for decades.
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