Practical corporate responsibility for businesses under 250 staff.
You do not need a sustainability team to have a credible CSR posture. For UK businesses under 250 staff, a one-page statement, a charity partnership, paid volunteer days, and Payroll Giving are usually enough to satisfy procurement questionnaires.
Everything we've written on CSR & ESG for Small Firms.
- 01 B Corp Certification for UK SMBs: Is It Worth It?
What B Corp certification actually involves for a UK SMB — the B Impact Assessment, fees, legal amendments, timeline and how it compares to alternatives.
- 02 Answering ESG Procurement Questionnaires: A UK SMB Guide
How UK SMBs should answer ESG sections in procurement questionnaires — PPN 06/21, Social Value Act, modern slavery, EcoVadis and CDP requests.
- 03 The One-Page CSR Statement Template for UK SMBs
A practical CSR statement template for UK businesses under 250 staff — what to include, what to leave out, and how it lands in tender responses.
It works best when paired.
The strongest workplace-giving programmes layer two or three pillars together. Start here, add as you grow.
The questions HR keeps emailing us.
Do UK SMBs need a formal CSR or ESG strategy?+
Legally, no — most ESG reporting requirements only kick in for larger entities. But supplier and tender questionnaires increasingly ask for it.
This pillar is editorially independent — and underwritten by Leavely.
Leavely is leave management for UK SMBs. It's most relevant to the Employee Volunteering pillar, where it tracks paid volunteer days as a separate leave type — but it's where most of our HR readers come from, so we link it up here too.