We're proud to be B Corp certified

At Seccl, we want to hold ourselves to ever higher standards. That's why we're very proud that we're now B Corp certified - joining a global community of businesses working to make the world a better place.

Being a B Corp means that we meet the highest levels of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability - and that we're committed to maintaining them, for the long term.

Certification required us to be (rigorously) assessed across five key areas: People, Planet, Community, Governance and Customers. And we've set ourselves some equally robust targets to ensure continuous improvement against B Corp standards:

Stakeholder Group	Area	2024 Goal	2025 Goal
People	Diversity	Establish D&I action plan focused on neurodiversity and gender: including target of no less than 45% of women in senior leadership roles by 2025 Maintain or improve psychological safety score of +89% Maintain or improve belonging score of +83%	Track progress on diversity plan Complete gender equity benchmark Report gender pay gap
People	Career	Embed leadership framework and formalise leadership training Evolve career progression framework Increase learning budget to £750 p/p	85% leadership effectiveness 25% of internal promotions filled internally Less than 5% regretted turnover
Planet	Emissions	Octopus Group (including Seccl) were part of the SBTi pilot for financial institutions, and Octopus Group have committed to setting an SBTi near-term target, using a baseline of 2023 data. They plan to submit their targets this year across all operations and financed emissions. In 2024 we will work with our landlord to switch to a renewable energy tariff and provide us with waste data.	We will put measures in place once the Group have validated their near-term targets. We have three offices, and our employees need to travel but we will put measures in place to encourage trains over flights. We will also focus on our supply chain data collection and engagement of our top five suppliers.
Community	Volunteering	490 hours volunteered	980 hours volunteered
Community	Donations	£40k donated to charity	£80k donated
Governance	Social and environmental decision making	Updated our articles of association to include all stakeholders Report environmental targets to the board on at least a twice annual basis Undergo training to all team members on Seccl's environmental commitments	Role profiles updated to include social and environment performance considerations Incorporate social and environmental targets into company KPIs
Customer	Customer stewardship	Achieve green against all customer and operational SLAs	Increase the number of end investors to over 250,000 - increasing reach