One Stone

Certified B Corporation
Headquarters

Scotland, United Kingdom

Certified Since

August 2013

Industry

Management consultant - for-profits

Sector

Service with Minor Environmental Footprint

Operates In

United Kingdom

One Stone is a global sustainability advisory firm specializing in strategy and communication. Its aim is to deliver excellence, sustainable business value, and real change by helping companies transform their challenges into opportunity. Client services include strategy and sustainability leadership advice, trend mapping, materiality and reporting, stakeholder engagement, carbon management and helping to build a strong case for transformation and engage employees. Operating across three continents, One Stone blends local presence with global perspective, using the latest low-carbon digital technology to deliver 24/7 project turnaround with a small footprint.

Overall B Impact Score

Based on the B Impact assessment, One Stone earned an overall score of 125.7. The median score for ordinary businesses who complete the assessment is currently 50.9.
125.7
125.7 Overall B Impact Score
80 Qualifies for B Corp Certification
50.9 Median Score for Ordinary Businesses

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.

Mission & Engagement2.6
Ethics & Transparency5.1
+ Mission Locked10

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.


Community 62.3

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.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion18.9
Economic Impact7.0
Civic Engagement & Giving8.1
Supply Chain Management2.7
+ Designed to Give21.3

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 13.1

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.

Environmental Management2.8
Air & Climate4.0
Water0.0
Land & Life1.0

Customers 32.5

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.

Customer Stewardship0.8
+ Impact Improvement31.7

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.



Previous Overall B Impact Scores

2024 Overall B Impact Score125.7
2021 Overall B Impact Score101.7
2017 Overall B Impact Score102.7
2015 Overall B Impact Score101.4
2013 Overall B Impact Score82.2

Additional Documentation

Transparent Disclosure

One Stone 2023 Impact Report

One Stone_Transparent Disclosure_2024


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