What We Do

 

Thrive is a sustainability and ESG consultancy dedicated to helping companies and investors navigate the world of sustainability, giving you the clarity, confidence and credibility you need to be compliant.

 

Who We Work With

We work with small and medium-sized companies and investors to ensure they continue to thrive in a changing

Our mission is to support companies and their investors to ensure they continue to thrive in a changing world. 

Reporting on ESG performance is fast becoming non-negotiable and compulsory for businesses. As the rigour and breadth of disclosures increase, so can the complexity. Thrive is here to help you navigate the world of ESG compliance with confidence.

Our Services for companies

  • 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 is made up of three distinct steps:

    Step 1: Audit & Benchmarking Audit

    • Assess

    • Regularly review

    Step 2: Identifying your North Star

    • Where do you need to be to be competitive?

    • Understand the requirements for each of your audiences - Customers, Investors, Regulators, The Market

    • Ambition setting

    Step 3: ESG Gap Analysis & Roadmap

    • List of things you need to do to get where you need to be

    • Identifying the gaps

    • Prioritising those in order

  • Again, there are two key steps within this stage:

    Step 1: Data & Progress Tracking

    First, 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

    • Materiality assessments and issue prioritisation (Using the Double Materiality approach)

    Outputs from this stage will include:

    1. Next 12 months topline plan

    2. Strategy and planning

    3. Materiality assessment

    4. Issue prioritisation

    5. Identifying what’s important to shareholders (A)

    6. Identifying where your company can have the most impact (B)

    7. Identifying commonalities between what’s most important for A and B. Thrive will come up with ten.

    8. Target setting and delivery planning

    Next, we begin implementing and creating your assets. This stage will include:

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

    • Implementation support

    • Net Zero planning and Climate transition plans

    • Data and progress tracking

    Step 2: Training and capability development which includes:

    • Board and Senior leadership training on sustainability/ESG with a focus on key topics 

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

  • There is the option to retain Thrive for ongoing advisory if required.

    This can mean different things for different companies, but the result is that you keep up with evolving regulations in order to remain compliant and credible.

Our Services for investment firms

  • We help you integrate ESG into your diligence process to identify potential risks and opportunities that could impact an investment's long-term value and sustainability:

    This includes:

    • Identification of the sustainability topics that are material to prospective portfolio companies

    • Guidance on the KPIs to request and interrogate

    • Market sector insights to feed into diligence analysis

  • We work with key players in your portfolio companies’ management teams to ensure they consider, integrate and report on relevant ESG issues.

    This includes:

    • Portfolio company training on how to identify and integrate material ESG risks and opportunities into their business planning

    • Providing portfolio companies with tools to develop effective and credible sustainability strategies

    • Guidance for Portfolio Companies on best practice/industry standards in sustainability in their sector

  • We ensure your investment policy reflects and formalises your firm’s position on Impact or Responsible Investing.

    This includes:

    • Facilitated workshops with your senior team to discuss and establish your firm’s chosen investment approach

    • Development of a structured investment policy or code to formalise your approach to responsible investment or impact investment

    • Development of a framework to provide guidance on your chosen approach throughout the investment cycle

  • We work with your teams to establish a disclosure framework that satisfies your and your stakeholders’ and crucially, your regulator’s 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

We provide:

  • Project-based and ongoing support relating to ESG and sustainability

  • We help you build a strong internal 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.

 

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.