Play It Green
Manchester, United Kingdom
April 2023
Membership organizations
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
Australia,
France,
Georgia,
Germany,
Hong Kong S.A.R.,
India,
Ireland,
Italy,
Poland,
Serbia,
Spain,
Sri Lanka,
United Kingdom,
United States
Play It Green is a B Corp Certified business that is passionate about helping people, businesses and organisations to lower their carbon footprint and make an ongoing environmental & social impact. The company has an online subscription service and platform with a strong portfolio of members from SMEs to PLCs. Over 200 business clients in 9 countries including the UK, Europe and the US. Cofounded by two Manchester dads, all services help to reduce the carbon footprint of people, Businesses and organisations, improve their sustainability actions and grow revenues through improved green credentials. The business is built on a transparent ‘conscious capitalist’ model with 10% of all revenue generated being regiven to a charity of its members’ choice. It has a three-step solution to Climate Change of #reduce, #repair and #regive and everything it does and its collaborations embody all three steps. The main business solution is its climate-positive workforce, but it also provides tree planting, signposting, footprint reporting, marketing support and more. A mailer is sent every Friday to each member containing a tip on how to lower personal carbon footprints with a discount on a related product plus other educational articles. This includes business best practices and education on su
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 22.3
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.
Governance 22.3
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.
Community 60.0
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 20.7
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 3.4
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.