Hive Cleaning
City of London, United Kingdom
September 2022
Facilities & cleaning services
Service with Significant Environmental Footprint
United Kingdom
Hive is a B Corp-certified, WeConnect-accredited, women-led and family-run office cleaning company, and the highest-scoring B Corp office cleaning provider in the world with an outstanding score of 122.2. We set the benchmark for sustainability, ethics and service excellence in our sector. We deliver exceptional cleaning standards while putting people and planet first. At the heart of Hive is a diverse, valued workforce — every employee is paid the London Living Wage, supported, trained and respected. We believe that motivated teams create better workplaces. Our sustainability commitments go far beyond compliance, operating with robust carbon-reduction strategies, investing in innovative green technologies, and leading hands-on environmental projects such as our reforestation initiative, urban beekeeping and canal clean-ups. We involve employees, clients and supply partners to drive real, measurable impact. As a trusted supply-chain partner, we prioritise transparency, strong governance, and long-term relationships. We work collaboratively with clients who want to elevate their ESG performance by choosing a genuinely ethical cleaning partner. If you’re looking for a cleaning partner that strengthens your sustainability, social value and DEI objectives, we’d love to work with you.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 16.3
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 23.5
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 43.8
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Environment 35.3
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Customers 3.1
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.