Bingham Riverhouse
Surrey, United Kingdom
August 2024
Restaurants & food service
Service with Significant Environmental Footprint
United Kingdom
Nestled on the peaceful banks of the River Thames in Richmond London, Bingham Riverhouse is one of the only black female-owned hotels in the UK, and combines 15 thoughtfully designed boutique bedrooms featuring reclaimed furniture, artisan amenities and eco beds, a sustainable neighbourhood restaurant serving feel-good comfort food dedicated to innovative low-waste ingredients, a community Members Club and flexible event spaces. Our menus are a reflection of our values, showcasing the best of consciously sourced, seasonal ingredients from local producers and foraged gems from our garden and local surroundings. Through our wellbeing offering, bhuti, we nurture the mind, body, and soul with a range of experiences from massage to meditaton, yoga and mindfulness classes including transformative workshops - from breathwork to sound healing. Everything we do is rooted in a deep respect for nature and our community. Beyond the house, we’re passionate about giving back. Our involvement in charitable initiatives and local outreach reflects our commitment to making a positive impact. Whether through hosting events or supporting important causes, we strive to contribute to the wellbeing of the people around us and encourage connection within our community.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 17.7
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.
Governance 17.7
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 21.3
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 20.4
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 17.4
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.
Customers 3.4
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.