Good Business Fortnight will be taking place from 3rd to 14th February 2025, bringing together businesses and individuals committed to responsible practices to celebrate achievements, share knowledge and drive change. […]
14th November, 2024 By Jenny Herrera, CEO of the Good Business Charter For the final part of our Autumn blog series on workers’ rights, we’re addressing zero-hours contracts (ZHCs) and […]
15th October, 2024 By Jenny Herrera, CEO of the Good Business Charter Imagine this: you’re sitting at your desk, in the middle of your workday, when suddenly you receive a […]
13th September, 2024 West Bromwich Building Society is the eighth largest building society in the UK and offers mortgages and savings products both regionally and nationally. The West Brom is […]
9th September, 2024 Whether you have customers, clients, members, beneficiaries or the public as the people that you serve in running your organisation, they should be at the heart of […]
5th September, 2024 By Jenny Herrera, CEO of the Good Business Charter The Centre for Progressive Change is leading the way on its Safe Sick Pay campaign, a crucial initiative in […]
25 July, 2024 Good Business Charter (GBC) accredited organisations must communicate their commitment to paying their fair share of taxes, avoiding legal tax avoidance and maintaining transparency in their relationship […]
22nd July, 2024 As we reach the midpoint of 2024, it is an ideal time to reflect on the milestones and events that have shaped our journey so far this […]
11th June, 2024 Welcome to our latest blog series, where we take a look at our components in action through our small accredited businesses. In this series, we present […]
24th May, 2024 By Jenny Herrera, CEO of the Good Business Charter It has never been more important to take a stand for a capitalism that does right by people […]
14th May, 2024 By Jenny Herrera, CEO of the Good Business Charter I think we all know that on our own we can achieve little. It is as we partner […]
23rd April, 2024 Feedwater is a manufacturer and supplier of water treatment chemicals, equipment and water softeners, with consultancy services, who has been accredited with the Good Business Charter since […]
19th March, 2024 By Jenny Herrera, CEO of the Good Business Charter Oxfam started the year publishing a report entitled ‘Inequality Inc: How corporate power divides our world and the […]
26th February, 2024 Multimodal logistics solutions provider, AV Dawson, stand out not just for their efficient operations but also for their unwavering commitment to good business practices. This commitment was […]
19th February, 2024 As chair of the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE), that is a question that I am regularly asked. We exist to champion the highest standards of ethical […]
12th February, 2024 As we bid farewell to the inaugural Good Business Week that took place from 5th to 11th February 2024, we are thrilled to share the incredible success […]
6th February, 2024 Written by Liz Barclay, UK Small Business Commissioner Paying your suppliers quickly could help stem the flow of small business failures as the cost of doing business […]
5th February, 2024 By Jenny Herrera, CEO of the Good Business Charter. Many companies talk about being sustainable and when you ask them what they do, they will relay a […]
1st December, 2023 A case study on embedding responsible procurement, Good Business Charter Accreditation and Social Value By: Steve Betts, Head of Procurement The Northumbrian Water Group employs over 3000 people, […]
15th November, 2023 A case study on using the GBC EDI commitments to begin and inform our EDI journey By: Jane Boulton, Human Resources Director Axminster Tools is UK based […]
2nd November, 2023 Rampant chasing after profit, regardless of its impact on employees, customers, suppliers and the planet has rightly been called out in recent years with a growing tide […]
24th October, 2023 Written by GBC’s Head of Growth, Hunter Hampton-Matthews In today’s rapidly evolving world, businesses across industries are recognising the importance of responsible practices. In the hospitality sector, […]
11th September, 2023 Last week I had the privilege of being part of a round-table on Levelling Up run by the University of York and University of Central Lancashire in […]
30th July, 2023 As we mark World Day Against Trafficking in Persons it is good to reflect on how the Good Business Charter feeds into the narrative on eradicating modern […]
12th July, 2023 The word ‘culture’ is not one that the Good Business Charter has tended to reference, instead developing a focus on EMBEDDING the 10 components of the GBC. […]
27th June, 2023 Natalie Thompson of Schroders Personal Wealth shares some of the nuts and bolts of how they have utilised the Good Business Charter to communicate their commitment to […]
5th June, 2023 It’s always a pleasant experience to be in the same room as a load of people who are passionate about the same thing you are – and […]
4th May, 2023 We call our fourth component Employee Representation and I believe it is helpful to unpack what that looks like in practice. I attended an excellent roundtable on […]
27th March, 2023 We were delighted to host our very first round-table with our medium and large accredited organisations on 28th February, and our chosen topic was financial well-being – […]
25th January, 2023 It feels crazy to even have to say this – how have we moved so far from such a basic ethic as paying our suppliers on time? […]
12th December 2022 Accredited GBC organisation, Leek Building Society, provides an excellent example of how people can be truly championed, and employee wellbeing put at the heart of a business. […]
21st November, 2022 Earlier this month we had our inaugural AGM – what we hope will become our Annual Gathering of Members. It was lovely to read a write-up of […]
18th October 2022 When we launched York as our first Good Business Charter city, I was excited to connect with Rebecca Hill of Galtres Lodge, an independent hotel. She also […]
27th September, 2022 REAL LIVING WAGE INCREASES TO £10.90 IN UK AND £11.95 IN LONDON AS THE COST-OF-LIVING RISES 10.1% increase in real Living Wage, the largest year-on-year rise Over […]
26th September, 2022 I feel compelled to write a blog entry as we walk through all that is going on around us – a plummeting pound, high inflation, interest rates […]
17th June, 2022 A blog by Good Business Charter’s CEO, Jenny Herrera. When I came on board to lead the Good Business Charter, there is no doubt I had a […]
10th June, 2022 I have recently finished reading Martin Vander Weyer’s informative analysis of why we have lost faith in capitalism in “The Good, the Bad and the Greedy” which […]
25th May, 2022 It is one thing to say you are committed on paper to our 10 components. To embed them into the very core of your organisation is quite […]
3rd May, 2022 Passionate suppliers of woodworking tools and machinery, Axminster Tools have spent 50 years building our family business into the renowned organisation it is today. We do what […]
21st April, 2022 We were very excited for this year’s Good Business Festival, as our CEO, Jenny Herrera was due to speak on a panel with James Ghaffari – Director […]
14th November, 2023 After just 2 years the GBC has accredited its 1,000th organisation Today the Good Business Charter, set up 2020 in partnership with the CBI and TUC, welcomed […]
5th March, 2022 First printed in the Sunday Times, online 5 March 2022 and in print 6 March 2022 “I was enjoying a lunch with my friend Simon Fox, at […]
28th February, 2022 Welcome to another month of news and updates from us at GBC! We are rapidly growing, with 920 accredited organisations and we can’t thank our supporters enough […]
Guest blog from Silver Birch Care 14th February, 2022 We are delighted to celebrate our two-year anniversary as a member of the Good Business Charter (GBC). We are proud to […]
Guest Blog from Jon Lewis 11th February, 2022 In 2016, I returned to the UK, having spent the prior 20 years working internationally, but based in the US. It surprised […]
10th February, 2022 Today marks our second anniversary of launching the Good Business Charter on 10th February, 2020. Not a good time to launch anything given the pandemic about to unleash […]
28th January, 2022 Earlier this week the World Benchmarking Alliance launched a report on the global state of play for responsible business conduct, sharing findings and insights from their Social […]
10th January, 2022 Happy New Year to you all! Here at The Good Business Charter, we have had a monumental year of growth, as we saw a rapid increase in […]
Welcome to another month of GBC news! We are delighted to welcome 44 new members to the GBC this month, bringing our total up to 754, with 56 of those […]
For this blog, we would like to look closely at how our members have been working towards net zero, and members who offer offsetting services as part of their business, […]