What We Do

Building sustainability, in the truest sense of the word

 

Thrive is a sustainability and ESG consultancy dedicated to working with companies and their investors to ensure they continue to thrive in a changing world. 

Our approach is honest, empathetic and collaborative.

 
 
 

We work with organisations, with and without in-house sustainability teams, providing project-based and ongoing support relating to ESG and sustainability. 

  • Our work is centred on building a strong business case for sustainability.

  • We assess your current sustainability status, identify gaps in relation to your stakeholders' expectations, and outline how to address them.

  • Our services include market and regulatory insights, strategy and policy development, transition planning, and assistance with disclosure and reporting. 

The scope and detail of our support are tailored to fit the size of your organisation and your specific requirements.

Our Services

  • We help you navigate the process of data collection and analysis by assessing your current ESG position and comparing this against existing and emerging regulations. 

    This includes:

    • Audit of current ESG performance and benchmarking

    • Assess ESG readiness and create risk and opportunity tables

    • Regulation review (current and horizon scanning)

    • ESG Gap Analysis and Recommendations Report 

  • We combine real-life conversation with desk-based research to find out exactly what your stakeholders (customers, regulators and investors) expect of your company and your peers, now and into the future. 

    We document and synthesise the results into golden insight that provides evidence, motivation and strength to your business decisions.

    This includes:

    • Insight reviews: Peer, competitors, investor, customers

    • Market scan

    • Regulatory horizon scan

  • We prioritise and plot your most essential sustainability tasks (informed by audit, research and insight) onto a roadmap, backed by a clear strategy, to drive practical and realistic action.

    This includes:

    • Ambition setting

    • Investment policy development & integration 

    • Target setting & delivery plans

    • Development of an action-orientated Sustainability/ESG roadmap

    • Policy development: e.g. Social Value policy, Responsible Investing policy

    • Implementation support

    • Net Zero planning and Climate transition plans

    • Materiality assessments and issues prioritisation (Double Materiality Assessment and Materiality for smaller companies)

  • We work with your teams to establish a disclosure framework that satisfies your and your stakeholders’ needs, identify the data set and metrics required and identify the sources. Set up a process and introduce software to help manage this.

    This includes:

    • Development of Sustainability/ESG report template

    • Alignment with relevant ESG frameworks

    • Supporting data collation and disclosures

    • Anti-greenwashing advice and review

    • Senior leadership training on Sustainability/ESG key topics 

    • Interim or part-time CSO - Support of in-house Sustainability/ESG experts to build capability

    • Portfolio company training and support

 

How we view ESG

At Thrive, there’s no compromise between sustainability and good business.

The two work hand-in-hand. Always. And although ESG may be a framework with criteria, for us it’s not just about ticking boxes.

Instead, we make sure your ESG strategy reflects your values and commercial goals. That it ties in with what customers already know about your brand. And balances reality with ambition.

The result? The kind of authenticity that wins more trust from your customers, investors and employees, whilst ensuring legal compliance. Something fundamental during a time when, quite rightly, there is no room for greenwashing.