Freud Communications Limited
London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom
January 2020
Other professional, scientific & tech
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
United Kingdom
freuds is a full services communications & public relations company, founded in 1985. With offices in London and New York, their specialists advise a wide range of clients across numerous sectors – delivering campaigns, building brands, managing reputations & fostering trust. In their 35 year history, they have been driven by a commitment to social & environmental impact. Cause-based campaigns have always been a central component, pushing the boundaries of what communications can achieve to raise awareness & change behaviour. This commitment has continued to evolve as they focus on aligning all of their work with the Global Goals. The world is facing an increasingly tight timeline to move towards a sustainable agenda with pressing climate deadlines, global crises & worsening environmental conditions. As a company, freuds has set itself a target to play a leading role in changing the paradigm. They are increasingly aligning their clients & organisations of all types to rise to the challenge of meeting the Goals and to turning the 2020s into a ‘decade of delivery’ on the path to achieving them. In 2020 & beyond, they will endeavour to continue their mission and work in partnership with clients & stakeholders to let the Global Goals for Sustainable Development lead & guide them.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 15.2
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 15.2
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 37.0
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 18.3
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.
Environment 11.3
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 8.6
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.
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.