Greencore Homes Ltd
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
November 2025
Design & building
Service with Significant Environmental Footprint
United Kingdom
Greencore Homes is a sustainable housebuilder based in the UK. They build homes that are Better Than Net Zero and create climate positive places. Their mission is to deliver new homes built to exemplar environmental and energy-efficiency standards. With significant investment from majority shareholder M&G, strong relationships with partners and an experienced senior leadership team, they have ambitious targets to build 10,000 homes that are Better Than Net Zero by 2035. Their homes are built using an innovative closed timber frame panel that is insulated with hemp, lime and natural wood fibre. Unlike traditional brick construction, a Greencore home locks up more carbon than it emits during construction and is designed to be Net Zero each year in occupation. Their homes are built to Passivhaus principles with superior insulation, airtight construction, and a mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) system. This enables significantly lower energy bills and a more comfortable indoor environment all year round. All new Greencore developments are designed to achieve a net zero energy balance. Greencore aims to deliver sustainable homes and places that benefit people, communities and the planet. For People. For Planet. For Good.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 15.7
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 27.0
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 14.1
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.
Environment 54.4
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 3.0
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.