The Sourcing Team Ltd
Surrey, United Kingdom
June 2020
Other/general wholesale trade
Wholesale/Retail
Austria,
Belgium,
Denmark,
France,
Germany,
Ireland,
Italy,
Netherlands The,
Norway,
Poland,
Spain,
Switzerland,
United Kingdom,
United States
Pushing the boundaries to source fabulous promotional merchandise, ethically and sustainably. Proud to be B Corp certified since 2020 and recertified in 2024, We are also EcoVadis Platinum, top 1% in our sector, ISO9001, ISO14001. Certified women owned business via WEConnect since 2011. Working with clients across the UK & Europe and US with our Global, B Corp partners. Creating innovative product solutions from off the shelf to totally bespoke. Working with amazing global brands, for local and global events, brand activity campaigns, employee recognition, onboarding and reward programs. Gill Thorpe our CEO has been at the forefront of driving change in sustainable procurement practices to protect both people and planet. She works with like-minded clients to help them on their sustainability journey and collaboratively with suppliers and factories to help improve human rights and more sustainable supply chains through best practice and innovation. Gill is also a strong advocate for gender diversity, driving opportunities for women owned organisations. She is a supporter of WEConnect International which led Gill to set up and Chair the WBE (Woman’s Business Council) in the UK in 2015 helping to build a fantastic, collaborative group of women-owned businesses, bringing
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 17.9
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 17.9
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 26.1
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 20.6
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 18.4
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.
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 4.1
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.