JCDecaux UK is demonstrating that sustainability is not an add on, it is fundamental to how we operate and grow. In 2025, we accelerated our shift to circular infrastructure, refurbishing hundreds of assets at scale, cutting carbon emissions while enhancing the quality and longevity of public space. We maintained 100 percent renewable electricity, expanded fleet electrification and deployed smart energy optimisation to drive further efficiencies. Our approach is fully aligned to a science based Net Zero pathway, with strengthened carbon transparency and accountability. Sustainability is embedded across governance, procurement, operations and commercial decision making. Our infrastructure delivers real public value, providing free connectivity, trusted civic communication and life saving defibrillators in communities across the UK. By integrating environmental leadership with social impact and commercial resilience, JCDecaux UK is proving that media infrastructure can help cities decarbonise, connect and protect citizens at scale.

PatientsForce closes the gap between hospital prescription and what families can afford. Each year, we help 30,000+ patients in Taiwan access cancer therapies and other life-saving treatments their national insurance does not cover. Since 2017, NT$10 billion in pharmaceutical subsidies has reached the patients who needed it most, in partnership with 50+ global pharma companies, including 20+ of the world’s largest, who run their Taiwan patient support programmes through us. Our 8-step digital journey covers e-applications, financing, medicine logistics and nursing follow-up across 100+ medicines and over 70% of cancer types. The platform is fully paperless, saving 480+ trees a year, and we are certified to ISO 9001/27001/27701, PSCI, SBTi and EcoVadis Bronze. Funded by pharma partners rather than donors, the model is self-sustaining and ready to extend across Asia.
People, planet and profit — growing together.

Founded to tackle period poverty and prove fashion can be a force for good, Y.O.U Underwear certified as the UK’s highest scoring B Corp in 2021. Making Fairtrade certified organic cotton underwear, their buy-one, give-one model means every purchase provides underwear to someone in need in the UK and Africa through a long-standing charity partnership with Smalls for All. To date, Y.O.U has donated more than 70,000 pairs, supporting over 23,000 vulnerable women and girls with dignity, education and opportunity. Alongside social impact, Y.O.U is challenging the fashion industry through ethical manufacturing, low-impact materials, inclusive representation and transparent business practices. From pioneering underwear take-back schemes to transforming retail spaces into hubs for community activism and education, sustainability is embedded throughout the business model. Demonstrating that purpose and profit can grow together, Y.O.U is creating a more inclusive, accountable and regenerative future for fashion, one pair of pants at a time.

Auê Natural is a British regenerative personal care start-up redesigning everyday routines around forests, health and climate resilience. Its model replaces plastic-heavy, water-diluted conventional products with high-performance natural formulas powered by rainforest bioactives from the legal Amazon bioeconomy, green science and fibre-based packaging.

Every product is designed to create impact in lockstep with sales: less plastic, less transported water, lower carbon intensity and greater demand for responsibly sourced non-timber forest ingredients. Independent University of Westminster research conducted for Auê indicated up to 98% lower CO₂ emissions per use versus conventional liquid formats, within defined system boundaries.

By 2030, Auê projects it could prevent over 5.4 million plastic bottles from landfill, avoid ~98 tonnes of plastic production, ~1.3 million litres of production water and over 430 tonnes of CO₂ emissions. Awarded Innovator of the Year 2025 for its impact model, Auê proves regenerative personal care can be effective, desirable and scalable.

Seedling is a Bath-based carbon management platform, launched in 2023, making credible climate action accessible to every business regardless of in-house expertise or budget. The platform combines software with one-to-one expert support to help businesses measure, reduce and report full Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions – GHG Protocol-aligned.

Trusted by 500+ businesses across the UK and internationally (with 95%+ retention), clients have collectively measured over 500,000 tonnes of CO2e.

Outputs meet the growing demands of regulatory frameworks including NHS/Government PPN006 and B Corp, and every client leaves with a clear reduction plan and specific next steps, not just an emissions report.

Seedling Starter, a free entry-level tier, removes cost as a barrier for first-time users. Seedling holds a B Corp score of 111, well over double the median, and Carbon Impact Lead Henry Jones is one of only a few SBTi Certified Experts in the UK.

Showerkap is a UK Greentech start up transforming how high consumption buildings use water and energy. Founded in 2022, we developed the world’s first patented shower fade technology combined with IoT sensors and behavioural science to tackle one of the UN’s top environmental risks: water scarcity. Our system reveals hidden waste behind walls and in guest behaviour, enabling hotels and PBSA buildings to cut shower water use by up to 66% and reduce hot water energy and carbon emissions by up to 18%. Early pilots have already saved hundreds of thousands of litres, prevented leaks, improving resilience in a water stressed region. Showerkap has achieved global certification from the Solar Impulse Foundation, and secured university research partnerships. We are proving that a small start up can deliver outsized environmental and social impact – one shower at a time.

When Helene Carpentier was made redundant from her role as Global Head of Circular Economy at CBRE, she went looking for her next job and found that no one was hiring for what she did. Workplace sustainability teams were consumed by energy efficiency, with little bandwidth or expertise left for waste. So she built Circular Workplaces herself. Drawing on a decade of results across hospitals, banks, airports and corporate campuses including £200k annual savings at UK hospital group, ~60% waste cost reductions at a major bank, and recycling rates reaching 70% at a UK airport within six months, she developed a new methodology: one that makes waste visible to the people who create it, and fixes it upstream at procurement rather than downstream at the bin. Less waste, she has proven, means better workplaces: lower costs, stronger culture, and real environmental impact.

Katie Cross is redefining how sport tackles climate change through Pledgeball, a pioneering initiative that turns fan passion into measurable environmental action. What began on a grassroots football pitch in Bristol has scaled into a movement spanning European football, working with organisations including UEFA, FIFA, the Premier League and the Women’s Professional Leagues.

Under Katie’s leadership, Pledgeball has delivered tangible impact at unprecedented scale: over 62.5 million kg of CO₂ saved through fan pledges, more than 144,000 pledges in the 2023/24 season alone (a 38% year-on-year increase), and engagement with over 180 clubs. Campaigns such as the UEFA/Mastercard Champions League Pledge League have reached 6.2 million fans globally.

By bridging behavioural science, sport and climate action, Katie has created a model that is scalable, data-driven and deeply inclusive, proving that collective action, powered by fans, can drive real-world environmental change.

Shiva Dhakal, the founder of Community Homestay Network (CHN) and Royal Mountain Group, has dedicated more than 30 years to reshaping tourism in Nepal. His vision that travel within the country should be more inclusive, community driven and sustainable led to him launching the social enterprise, Community Homestay Network in 2017. Shiva’s work with CHN has resulted in more than 2,000 lives being positively impacted since CHN’s formal inception in 2017, with 900 of these being women. This positive impact has rippled through rural communities, empowering women to become tourism entrepreneurs, creating jobs for youth to help mitigate rural to urban migration and encouraging Indigenous cultures to thrive. Shiva’s philosophy of travel being a force for good extends into the other travel businesses he has founded ; Royal Mountain Travel, Inside Himalayas magazine, Avata Wellness Center, and Kathmandu-based Traditional Comfort and Traditional Stay hotels.

Karen Harvey MBE founded Toiletries Amnesty in 2014 to tackle hygiene poverty and reduce beauty industry waste. Toiletries Amnesty diverts millions of surplus toiletries from individuals and brands each year, preventing them entering landfill.

Last year Toiletries Amnesty provided access to toiletries and hygiene products to over 8 million people, and now supports over 1400 locations around the world, including homeless shelters, womens refuges, foodbanks and community groups, ensuring consistent access to essential hygiene products for vulnerable people.

By combining dignity-led support with circular economy principles, Toiletries Amnesty transforms waste into wellbeing. The model is simple, scalable and transparent; its impact includes significant carbon savings and measurable social value, empowering communities and enabling practical action against poverty and waste.

Dr. Manish Jain is a leading Indian social entrepreneur advancing dignity, livelihood, and inclusion for transgender communities through scalable, community-led initiatives. As the force behind Kineer Garima Foundation, he has created innovative models that combine humanitarian support with long-term economic empowerment. His programmes have supported over 6 lakh vulnerable individuals with ration aid, delivered healthcare access to more than 30,000 people, and enabled free skill development and placements for over 1,200 transgender persons through the TRANS-formation initiative.

Dr. Jain has also pioneered socially driven enterprises and public engagement platforms including Chai with Dignity, Kinnar Mahotsav, and Garima Clean Care — a commercial laundry initiative run by the transgender community. By building partnerships across corporates, government, healthcare, and civil society, he is helping transform transgender inclusion from charity-based conversations into sustainable livelihood ecosystems with measurable social impact across India.

Nuri Kino is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist who has spent 25 years building chains of humanity where none existed before: between an op-ed and a government inquiry, between a journalist and asylum cases other lawyers had given up on, between a donated gown and a widow in Ukraine. As founder of A Demand For Action (ADFA), he runs a volunteer humanitarian NGO active in 21 countries. In 2025-26 his journalism in Svenska Dagbladet drove a Swedish government inquiry into crime victim compensation. His pro bono legal work freed two Iraqi brothers from immigration detention and kept a Syrian couple in Sweden after five specialist lawyers had failed. His new social enterprise Compassion Fashion has, in five months, turned 1,450 donated luxury garments into 80,000 SEK of direct humanitarian funding, 26 tonnes of CO₂e avoided, and meaningful work for retired tailors, refugees and people with disabilities.

Tracey Constable is an award winning social impact strategist and founder of Self Made Spectrum and Bright Side Mamas (Inclusive Mamas Club). Drawing on her lived experience as a mother of a neurodivergent child, she creates practical, scalable solutions that support both children and their caregivers.
Through inclusive youth entrepreneurship programs, peer-led support communities, and innovative tools like the Bright Side Planner and PauseSteps Method, Tracey is redefining how families access support, build confidence, and navigate daily life.

With a combined audience of over 200,000 and multiple international awards recognising her leadership, Tracey is passionate about turning lived experience into meaningful, sustainable impact, helping families feel seen, supported, and empowered.

Girls on the Path of Change is an international digital education initiative founded by Robina Azizi, a 16-year-old girl who was banned from attending school under Taliban rule. GPC supports over 3,000 girls in Afghanistan and refugee girls in Iran and Pakistan through free online English classes, mentorship, and creative programs in writing, photography, art, and public speaking. The initiative has helped girls access scholarships and continue university studies abroad, while advocating for over 10,000 girls and amplifying their voices globally. In Germany, its “Breaking Barriers, Building Friendship” project connects refugees with local communities to foster inclusion and understanding.

I founded 20/20 Mission, a youth-led nonprofit that has collected 8,000+ pairs of used eyeglasses across Canada and redistributed them to people who could never afford a pair otherwise. With 100+ youth volunteers, we’ve served 1,500+ patients across Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, and underserved Canadian communities including Fort McKay First Nation in Alberta and Yaqan Nukiy near Creston, BC. Through our school program Perspective Project, we run vision-equity workshops with vision-simulation goggles so students understand what it’s like not to see clearly. We turn waste into sight, and youth into changemakers.

I founded ZeroWaste Project, a student-led initiative to reduce food waste and promote sustainable agriculture in Vietnam. Over three years, I rescued 356+ kg of surplus non-perishable food (1,437 items), supporting 420 individuals across 9 charities. At school, I audited 13,898+ kg and reduced food waste by 1,335+ kg through a data-driven system. As a Zayed Sustainability Prize finalist, I secured $25,000 to scale the project by integrating BSF larvae with hydroponics to convert waste into nutrients to grow vegetables for 470+ people. Through 11+ workshops and campaigns, I reached 2,000+ people, raising awareness on food waste.

We’re Sebastião and Marta, both 20 and Portuguese. Half of our country’s forests have burned in our lifetime, and we watched it happen. When we volunteered to plant trees, we were told the slopes that need them most are untouchable: too steep for tractors, too dangerous for people. So we built Trovador, the world’s first four-legged tree-planting robot. The first prototype cost €15. The latest climbs 45° slopes and plants hundreds of seedlings an hour into burned ground. Backed by National Geographic, UNEP and WWF, and named to Forbes 30 Under 30, we’re pulling 500,000+ trees back into reach.

If you tell a person to kill someone, they may refuse because they know it is wrong. But place that same person in a crowd already killing and destroying, and their morality can be taken over by the movement of the crowd. The Footpath School works at the roots of this problem by providing street-connected and underprivileged children with education, moral learning, interfaith harmony, sanitation support, and personalized care, so they do not become part of destructive crowds, but grow into people who build better ones. A constructive crowd.

Anushka transformed 1 Million toilet visits for 5,000 students in 40remote schools. Anushka noticed menstruating girls missed school due to unusable toilets. She started Project Cleanlihood and trained 1000 students in 13 schools to maintain clean toilets. Anushka enlisted school management support, conducted student workshops, raised funds to repair toilets and for salaries of cleaners. She devised a whats app community group uploading daily toilet cleaning pictures and conducted surprise visits ensuring daily checks of sparkling toilets with clean running water. Her sustainable model adopted by the local government now serves 40 schools facilitating 5,000 students including 2000 teenage girls.

Our futures are in danger. Animals all around the world are on the brink of extinction, leading to the decline of their habitats, their environments, and our world. Through the Kid Conservationist project, I work to empower youth and inspire people of all ages to take simple, accessible, and understandable steps towards making our world a better place for animals and people alike. I lead by example, with my work as an animal activist, public speaker, author, educational YouTuber, and fundraiser. Over the last six years, I have educated millions of people around the world and planted thousands of trees.

As a nonprofit leader, I restore dignity to pediatric patients by providing custom gowns and port access clothing across 47 states and nine countries. I lead over 500 volunteers to reach 5,300 children. This includes donating 3,500 gowns and shirts, plus specialized pillows, holiday gift bags, and ostomy bag covers. My goal is to help kids feel like kids and not just patients. Beyond physical aid, I co produced a curriculum that reached 12,000 students to foster empathy. I also lobbied on Capitol Hill for the Give Kids a Chance Act to ensure every child’s identity outlasts their diagnosis.

We lead Mangrove Protectors, a youth-led climate education project in UAE and India since 2023. It empowers students to protect coastal ecosystems through hands-on workshops, engaging storytelling and spreading awareness about the importance of mangrove conservation.
We are active on social media sharing facts and inspiring tangible mindset shifts. We train young ambassadors to run local campaigns, share our resources that connect mangroves to global climate action.
Our work has engaged thousands of students and has helped schools to turn classrooms into hubs of real world environmental action and giving young people a powerful voice in the climate movement.

My immigrant parents say “education is the one thing nobody can take from you”–yet 300M+ children remain out of school, unable to solve their communities’ issues. I bridge this gap three ways. My NPO Origami for Good (origamiforgood.org, @origamiforgood) connects 7,000+ volunteers across 50+ countries, educating communities about AAPI culture. FutureFemalescholars.com (@future.female.scholars, 120K+ followers) provides 1,200+ free 1:1 STEM tutor contacts to girls worldwide, targeting sub-Saharan Africa where only 37% of girls finish secondary school. Funded by the U.S. Navy and WEAT, my ISEF-winning DVD-based water sensor makes clean water detection accessible to all. (https://isef.net/project/etsd016-discspr-low-cost-disc-based-water-toxin-sensor). Accessing knowledge bridges every gap.

Greater Good Charities has been providing a vital lifeline to Ukraine, filling critical gaps where traditional aid stops by partnering with local communities. Underpinned by the belief that the well-being of people, animals, and the environment are intrinsically linked, the charity delivers sustained, evolving support.

By providing 44M+ meals and 8K+ insulated windows, the organization ensures survival and dignity for displaced populations and their animals. To safeguard Ukraine’s future, they sustain 2 billion essential pollinators, protecting the nation’s agricultural backbone. Operating in red zones that others cannot reach, Greater Good Charities empowers local heroes with medical kits and infrastructure, including providing aid for people and pets in high-risk zones using a distribution model powered by local partners and volunteers. After three years of unwavering presence, Greater Good Charities remains, meeting shifting needs to rebuild a nation’s spirit from the ground up.

More than 25% of Venezuela’s population has been forced to flee due to the ongoing humanitarian crisis, including an estimated 33% of the country’s doctors.

Junior doctors are at the forefront of care in state hospitals, delivering free medical services to the most vulnerable. With around 70% of the population living in poverty, most Venezuelans rely entirely on the public healthcare system—making the retention of junior doctors critical.

Despite this, they earn as little as $80 per month while treating 150–200 patients monthly. Healing Venezuela’s scholarships match their salaries, enabling them to continue training and remain in the country.

In 2025, Healing Venezuela supported 61 doctors, reaching over 110,000 low-income patients and saving an estimated 2,000 lives. To date, 371 doctors have graduated across 20 specialties, improving access to care for more than 2,000,000 patients.

A recent survey shows that 99% remain in the country for at least two years.

In Gaza, World Central Kitchen (WCK) now serves one million hot meals a day—enough to feed close to half the population. Media Cause built the rapid-response fundraising engine that powered WCK’s path to that milestone, running real-time paid media across Meta, Google and Bing through two of the most volatile years in the region’s recent history. The work hinged on operational truth: time-stamped kitchen updates, transparent “what your gift provides” breakdowns and honest reporting on the days kitchens ran out of food. That honesty drove $18.7M in gross donation value on $4.5M of spend (4.17 ROAS), 183,000+ individual gifts and cost-per-gift as low as $5 during peak hardship. Behind the numbers: six field kitchens, three mobile bakeries and 60+ community kitchens, operated by Palestinian chefs and volunteers feeding their own neighbors.

Unreasonable Impact is a decade-long partnership between Barclays and Unreasonable Group that supports 410 high-growth ventures globally, helping them scale and address global issues by offering a network, resources and mentorship – including coaching by Barclays colleagues.
The ventures are pursuing solutions across a range of industries from food and agriculture to energy and manufacturing. And, to date, have collectively raised over $18bn in financing and employ more than 33,000 people.
Strategically aligned to Barclays’ Citizenship focus on helping businesses grow and create jobs, the partnership is enabling ventures to scale new technologies that can support local economies and boost energy security. Crucially, it does so through a partnership structure that is creative and durable: curated venture selection plus an ecosystem of support embedded across Barclays’ businesses, with an enduring community that compounds impact over time.

In collaboration with the Tijuana Health Department, TIMA (Taiwan & USA), and community volunteers, the Tzu Chi Foundation launched a Special Needs Dental Shared Care Initiative in Tijuana, Mexico. The program serves patients with cerebral palsy, autism, bedridden status, or respiratory instability—groups often excluded from dental care due to mobility issues or “technical refusal.” By bringing mobile dental equipment directly to campuses, shelters, special education schools, and patients’ homes, the team completed an initial 119 treatments and extended care to 365 patient visits. Furthermore, the initiative trained 74 local Mexican doctors and interns and established a digital filing, 90-day follow-up, and local empowerment mechanism, effectively bridging the critical gap in oral healthcare for the most vulnerable.

CHN is a Nepali social enterprise that developed and champions a community tourism model placing the empowerment of women and youth, safeguarding of Indigenous culture and shared economic benefit from tourism at its heart. In 2025, CHN worked with 51 communities across Nepal, engaging 408 households, through a revenue-sharing system rooted in local ownership and leadership. Since 2018, women’s participation has grown by 381%, from 180 to 865 entrepreneurs. Additionally, 4104 travellers from 52 countries have been able to experience the powerful travel experience of a two-way exchange with local people.
To address visibility gaps for lesser-known destinations historically excluded from Nepal’s tourism supply chain, we expanded Community Connect, hosting 40 media and travel agents in Bhada, Bardiya, Hemjakot, Narchyang, Bungamati, Kirtipur, Dhankuta, and Janakpur. This generated 70+ international media features, amplifying community voices globally. CHN continues to position tourism as a tool for inclusive, resilient, community-owned development in Nepal.

When someone suffers a cardiac arrest, survival depends on immediate action. In 2025, JCDecaux UK installed its 350th public access defibrillator within our Communication Hubs, embedding life saving equipment directly into everyday streets across 35 UK cities. In partnership with local authorities and the Community Heartbeat Trust, we have transformed advertising funded infrastructure into a network of accessible, maintained emergency response points in high footfall locations. Each unit is inspected, supported and integrated into our national maintenance programme, ensuring reliability when it matters most. Local launches and awareness activity help communities feel confident to act. These hubs also provide connectivity and public information, strengthening resilience and inclusion. This initiative demonstrates how private sector infrastructure can deliver profound public benefit. It is not simply street furniture. It is civic infrastructure designed with humanity at its heart.

Imagine clean water in a region known for scarcity – now flowing to 3,250 Kenyans daily, thanks to a rainwater harvesting system that didn’t exist a few years ago. In Ghana, schoolchildren are rethinking plastic’s place in their lives. In Zambia, abandoned animals have new care, and the community new conversations on welfare. In the US, vulnerable elderly people received 3,000 self-care kits assembled by teams unfamiliar with facilities management. These are not separate stories – they are chapters in the same one. Standard Chartered (SC) and JLL have embedded social value at the core of facilities management, activating programmes in 31 countries across Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, Asia, Europe and the Americas. One million trees planted. Thousands of employee volunteers. Immeasurable community impact. This is what it looks like when two organisations commit to making prosperity serve everyone, delivering innovation, engagement, and measurable change far beyond operational walls.

Limitless is Knight Frank’s UK-wide social impact programme – an intentional approach to making a difference which takes us beyond traditional corporate giving. Limitless is all about creating a long-term programme which our people are proud to be participate in and where we have lasting, meaningful impact in local communities where Knight Frank operates.

Our first collaborative partner under Limitless is Sported, a national grassroots charity dedicated to helping young people access the life-changing power of sport. We have established a three-year strategic partnership with an investment of up to £1.3 million and together, we will support over 75 local community organisations, commit 7000 hours of volunteering from colleagues and engage 100,000 young people from disadvantaged groups through programme activities.

Limitless is something we’re extremely proud of; it plays a vital role in ‘Strengthening our Communities’, a key area for action in Knight Frank’s Global ESG Ambition.

Since 2024, Village Enterprise and the Swarovski Foundation have partnered in Busia, Kenya – a marginalised and climate-vulnerable region – to help families permanently escape extreme poverty. Using a structured poverty graduation model combining business training, seed capital, mentorship, and community-led savings groups. The partnership has already supported 327 families on a sustained pathway out of extreme poverty, reaching 2,126 indirect beneficiaries.
Results from this first cohort exceeded all targets: 90% of participants surpassed the $2.15/day (2024 levels) international poverty line, average household savings rose by 3,766%, and annual per capita consumption increased by 305%. Women represent 82% of participants.
The current phase will support a further 555 entrepreneurs, including 444 women, launching 185 climate-resilient businesses and 12 financial and entrepreneurial education groups. Beyond direct impact, the project is simultaneously refining Village Enterprise’s own digital ‘SPRINT’ model for poverty alleviation across Africa and broader sector adoption.

Schools2030 is a global movement transforming education by positioning teachers as innovators and leaders of change. Led by AKF, the programme has supported over 10,000 public-sector teachers across ten developing countries to use Human-Centred Design (HCD) and holistic assessment to improve learning outcomes and student wellbeing.

Through open, practitioner-led resources hosted on the AKF Learning Hub platform, Schools2030 now enables educators worldwide to access, adapt and scale proven innovations. These include tools for inclusive teaching, climate education, and social-emotional learning, all co-created with teachers and aligned to local contexts.

By combining low-cost innovation, participatory design and open-access learning, Schools2030 is bridging the gap between classroom practice and system-level change; ensuring that high-quality, inclusive education is scalable, sustainable, and driven by those closest to learners. And now, through the AKF Learning Hub, not only across ten countries but globally.

The climate crisis demands a generation of diverse, digitally confident problem-solvers. But in a country where just 15% of children study Computer Science at GCSE — and far fewer from disadvantaged backgrounds — that generation isn’t being equipped.

But thanks to Digit<all>, there are ten-year-olds in Birmingham programming devices to track their school’s energy use, coding an alert system that cuts waste. In Bradford, students built a wildfire risk alarm, sharing the process in a video that received 10,000 views. In Oxford, young girls gather air quality data and use it to campaign for traffic changes near their school. And in Wales, there are teachers leading coding sessions in Welsh, using resources downloaded for free.

None of these people are climate activists. They’re examples of some of Digit<all>’s one million beneficiaries: ordinary people learning to code through our accessible, hands-on programmes — and building real environmental tools in the process.

Inspiring Future Leaders is a six-month leadership and personal development project delivered by GT Scholars that supports boys aged 12-14 across the UK. The project combines mentoring, skill-building workshops and enrichment activities to build resilience, leadership skills and future aspirations.

GT Scholars’ goal is to help young boys develop communication, teamwork, confidence and goal-setting, while gaining access to positive role models and guidance on academic and career pathways. The project is designed to address gaps in access to support, particularly for young people who lack support networks and opportunities outside of school.

In 2025, the project demonstrated a strong impact, with 80% of participants reporting increased motivation and optimism, 93% gaining leadership skills, and 86% of parents reporting improved confidence and social development in their child. Delivered through a network of partner schools, Inspiring Future Leaders is helping to improve outcomes for young people and support long-term social mobility.

Since 2015, Language and Learning Foundation (LLF) has reached 21.8 million children and 1.18 million teachers across 10 states, strengthening foundational literacy and numeracy for India’s most marginalised children, at scale.

Our flagship NEEV Multilingual Education Programme reaches 55,000 children across all 1,524 government primary schools in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, one of India’s most educationally disadvantaged districts, where 95% of children speak indigenous languages at home, instead of Hindi, the medium of instruction. NEEV bridges this language gap by bringing children’s culture, identity, and language into classrooms.

What sets NEEV apart is its commitment to embedding MLE within government systems, ensuring solutions are sustainable and owned by the state. Third-party evaluations recorded learning gains of 20% in literacy and 18% in numeracy. Having informed MLE models in Jharkhand, Odisha, and Rajasthan, NEEV offers a blueprint for building equitable education systems that could potentially impact 36 million children if scaled nationally.

Onja is a social enterprise in Madagascar that trains underprivileged youth into world-class software developers. With more than 80% of the Malagasy population living in extreme precarity, access to meaningful education and sustainable career opportunities are vital to breaking cycles of disadvantage.

This work is guided by the belief that talent is everywhere but opportunity is not. We identify the brightest Malagasy students who cannot afford to continue their education and train them in English and in-demand skills. This includes software development as well as new AI-resilient career pathways.

Our innovative model allows our developers to pursue life-changing employment with global businesses overseas. Within one year of employment, developers’ income increases fourfold, and up to thirteen times higher by the sixth year of work. This creates a ripple effect: all graduates support their families’ basic living costs and siblings’ education, while also funding future cohorts.

In India’s rural and tribal communities, home to nearly 900 million people, structural inequities and poverty continue to limit access to education and opportunity, trapping many in a cycle of limited mobility and constrained futures.

At Quest Global, we believe education is the cornerstone of opportunity and a catalyst for underserved individuals to secure employment, support families, and uplift communities. Inspired by this belief, we launched “Empowering Rural and Tribal Futures” to unlock potential where it is often overlooked, creating pathways to dignity and possibility for every individual, regardless of geography or background.

Over three years, the initiative has impacted 13,000+ beneficiaries, enabled 800+ students to transition into higher education or employment and supported 665+ tribal women into sustainable livelihoods.

By connecting education to employability through an integrated ecosystem, the programme addresses root causes of exclusion and builds scalable, inclusive pathways for long-term transformation.

The Skills Development Fund (SDF) Cambodia is a demand-driven training co-financing platform under the Ministry of Economy and Finance, transforming Cambodia’s workforce since 2018. SDF bridges enterprises and training providers through a cost-sharing model — co-designing, co-investing, and co-owning skills development programs. Covering nine priority sectors including Manufacturing, Digital, Tourism, Automotive, Electronics, Construction, Agro-Industry, Logistics, and Green Energy. SDF has co-financed 223 training projects, trained 50,108 trainees (39% female), and USD 42.81 million in total training cost (2018-2025). Outcomes are measurable: 96% course completion, 88% employment rate, 20% average salary increase, and 85% employer satisfaction. Independent assessments confirm a social return of USD 1.34–1.54 per dollar invested. With 50,000+ trainees reached since inception, USD 39.9 million mobilised, and a growing network of 500+ enterprises, SDF is proving that inclusive, results-driven skills investment works.

Chartwells Schools is transforming school meals with a bold, future focused initiative that tackles two urgent challenges at once: poor fibre intake and carbon impact. With most UK children not eating enough fibre, the Spring/Summer 2026 menu introduces 16 vibrant, plant forward dishes built around beans and pulses, delivering nutrition and sustainability in every bite. From Mexican bean burgers to tikka rosti creations, these meals are designed to excite students while reducing reliance on high carbon ingredients. The impact is striking: nearly 30% lower emissions per serving, and a major reduction in high carbon options. Beyond the plate, we’ve set a target to empower over 12,000 pupils through sustainability education in this academic year, learning how their food choices shape both their own health and the environment. This pioneering, data driven approach sets a powerful new standard, proving that delicious, climate positive school food can inspire lasting change.

Cooking shouldn’t cost lives but across sub-Saharan Africa, it does. Nearly 900 million people still cook over open fires, burning wood that fuels deforestation, fills homes with toxic smoke, and women and girls bear the biggest burden of this. DelAgua’s Live Well programme tackles this head on. We have distributed over 2 million high quality, energy efficient cookstoves across Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia, reaching more than 9.5 million people. Each stove cuts household wood use by 71%, slashing emissions and protecting forests. Women reclaim hours once spent gathering firewood. Children attend school more regularly and have more time to do homework and play. Over 10,000 community-based workers get an opportunity to earn extra income and gain skills. Fully funded by carbon finance and delivered in partnership with governments, Live Well proves that climate solutions can also be engines for gender equality, public health, and economic development and progress.

The climate crisis won’t be solved by this generation alone — it needs the next one, equipped with the digital and green skills that those most in need are missing out on.

But thanks to Digit<all>, there are ten-year-olds in Birmingham programming devices to track their youth club’s energy use, coding an alert system telling people to turn off lights. In Bradford, students built a wildfire risk alarm, sharing the process in a video that received 10,000 views. In Oxford, young girls gather air quality data and use it to campaign for traffic changes near their school. And in Wales, there are Scout leaders leading coding sessions in Welsh, using resources downloaded for free.

None of these people are climate activists. They’re examples of some of Digit<all>’s one million beneficiaries: ordinary people learning to code through our accessible, hands-on programmes — and building real environmental tools in the process.

What began as a single fridge in 2016 has grown into a nationwide movement simultaneously tackling food waste and food insecurity. The Community Fridge Network (CFN), developed by Hubbub in partnership with Co-op, now operates 700+ community fridges across the UK – redistributing over 11,000 tonnes of surplus food in 2025 alone, equivalent to 25 million meals and 40,000 tonnes of CO₂e prevented.
Unlike food banks community fridges are open to all, avoiding means testing and stigma, making climate-friendly behaviour genuinely inclusive. Over 800,000 people benefit annually, with fridges evolving into warm spaces, community kitchens, and social hubs that tackle loneliness alongside food poverty.
With a 10:1 return on investment in some locations and evidence feeding into national food waste policy discussions, the CFN proves that community-led infrastructure can deliver environmental impact at scale, while building more resilient communities in the process.

Just a Drop is challenging climate change in Kenya through an ingenious nature-based solution: sand dams. By capturing water subsurface, these dams create decentralised green belts in arid landscapes, effectively reversing desertification. Our programme has reached and benefited almost 70,000 people, transforming ‘brown’ degraded land into localised carbon sinks that sequester up to 740 tonnes of carbon per dam.

Unlike traditional reservoirs, sand dams eliminate potent methane emissions and preserve Soil Organic Carbon by mitigating flash floods. This environmental restoration is matched by profound social co-benefits: an 88% increase in safe water access, a 400% rise in irrigated land, and the liberation of women from time poverty. Our community-led model ensures 100% sustainability. We don’t just provide safe water, we build 100-year, zero-maintenance climate engines that empower communities to thrive on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

The National Education Nature Park is a free programme that embeds nature and climate education across the curriculum, as young people lead the way in exploring and transforming their school, nursery and college outdoor spaces into nature-rich havens. From mapping habitats and conducting nature surveys to creating wildflower meadows and digging ponds on their education sites, children and young people across England are taking real action for local wildlife and their own futures. They’re supporting groundbreaking scientific research while developing vital skills, knowledge and a lasting connection with the natural world.

Every action adds up to make a big impact and this is displayed on an interactive map. Nearly 10,000 education settings have joined so far, and with the area of primary and secondary schools in England alone adding up to an area roughly twice the size of Birmingham, the programme is making a real difference to people and the planet.

Across supply chains, half of global food loss occurs postharvest with the agriculture sector accounting for the highest rates of loss. To tackle the significant food loss occurring in the agricultural sector, The Global FoodBanking Network initiated From Waste to Impact in 2024 that equips food banks worldwide with skills and training to advance on-farm and postharvest surplus recovery while applying verified reporting to measure methane mitigated. The program brings together organic waste reduction efforts alongside robust methane measurement systems to create a comprehensive climate solution. In 2025 alone, the 11 implementing food banks recovered 193,000 tons of total food, served over 3.4 million people and avoided more than 188,000 metric tons of CO2e. This solution creates a virtuous cycle: more food recovered means more emissions avoided. Together, it nourishes people and the planet, offering a replicable model for climate-smart food recovery that delivers measurable environmental and social benefits globally.

Restless Development is redefining what a global employer can look like by putting youth leadership, wellbeing and equity at the centre of all it does.

Over the past five years, Restless Development has taken an intentionally power shifting approach across all staff and volunteers. Transforming leadership structures, pay equity systems, wellbeing practices and organisational culture, has led to power shifting internally in line with our mission of shifting power externally. This has created measurable improvements in engagement, retention, inclusion and leadership diversity across nine countries – where 97% of staff feel valued and 99% of volunteers are proud to volunteer for Restless Development.

Restless Development is a unique place to work – where power is shared, learning is continuous and having fun together is part of how change happens.

Sahan Cares is a multi-award-winning social enterprise providing care to elderly people and adults with disabilities. We employ refugees as professional carers. Many speak English as a second language. We train them in English, support them through accredited care qualifications, and place them into communities as healthcare workers commissioned by the NHS and local authorities. To date we have created over 400 jobs, trained over 600 women, directly and indirectly impacted over 14,000 lives, and built a workforce with 92% retention in a sector averaging 27%. Sahan Cares is the UK’s only commissioned care provider whose workforce is composed entirely of former refugees. Sahan Cares is what happens when refugees are given the chance to rebuild not just their own lives, but the country that gave them one.

At The Access Group, supporting employee wellbeing and engagement is not a perk it’s a core driver of sustainable growth. Over the past three years, we’ve unified more than 9,000 employees across 12 countries around a single promise: Love Work. Love Life. Be You.
Through our Thrive framework — spanning Wellbeing, Giving, DE&I and Environment we’ve embedded care, inclusion and environmental responsibility into everyday work. Employees lead change through Mental Health First Aiders, Wellbeing Champions and Community Networks, while leaders are held accountable through wellbeing-linked KPIs.
The impact is measurable and human. We’ve achieved an eNPS of +48 during major AI-led transformation, top‑5% inclusion scores, £1.6m in productivity savings through wellbeing support, and outcomes that have quite literally saved lives through early health interventions.
By placing people at the heart of innovation, Access proves that doing good for employees, communities and the planet delivers lasting business success.

Cisco has set a new standard for circular design in the technology industry by achieving its 2025 goal of incorporating Circular Design Principles into 100% of new products and packaging. These performance-based principles address materials, packaging, energy consumption, and full product life cycle considerations. Circular design is critical to broader sustainability efforts; according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 80% of a product’s environmental impact is influenced by decisions made at the design stage.
Cisco’s circular design efforts help reduce environmental impact and deliver business value by reducing waste, saving energy, driving innovation, increasing supply chain resiliency, and lowering costs. In addition, the company’s other circularity programs – including product recovery and product remanufacturing – keep materials in circulation longer and enable customers to participate in a circular business model.

Fairman Knight delivers circular economy impact at verified commercial scale. Each year, the company upcycles 20,000 tonnes of surplus food waste into 3,500 tonnes of high-quality insect protein and 7,000 tonnes of chitin-rich frass fertiliser, making it the only UK company producing these circular products commercially.

From recovered chitin, Fairman Knight produces over 100,000 kg of chitosan, converted into 4.4 million litres of 5% biostimulant, which inoculates soils across the UK against fusarium and crop pests, reducing dependence on synthetic agrochemicals.

By diverting organic waste from landfill into decentralised processing, the business generates 30,000 tonnes of Gold Standard CO₂e credits annually through avoided methane emissions.

Circular impact is matched with social value: Fairman Knight is a Disability Confident Employer, an Armed Forces Covenant signatory, and runs DWP SWAP schemes to support community employment. Demand significantly exceeds capacity, demonstrating scalability and commercial viability.

Hilti’s Circularity Program turns expired Fleet Management tools into new value by reducing resource use, extending product life and keeping materials in circulation. Since 2020, we have built a global take‑back and processing system guided by the principles Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Returned assets flow into four industrialized reuse pathways: redeploying tools, batteries and chargers into our Premium Tool Pool for Tool‑on‑Demand and loan tools; donating suitable tools to educational and humanitarian organisations; spare‑parts reuse in professional repairs; and battery reuse for exchanges under stringent safety testing;. What cannot be reused is recycled via certified partners, with typically over 70% of a tool’s mass recovered. We also close material loops: Hilti tool cases now contain more than 20% recycled content, including closed‑loop material from returned Hilti cases. In 2025 alone, the program avoided nearly 2.5 kt CO₂, enabled reuse of 250,000 spare parts annually, and donated 6,000+ tools in 20 countries.

Recorra is proving that everyday workplace waste can be truly circular. By redesigning how three overlooked materials are managed – coffee grounds, green waste, and paper towels – Recorra has created closed-loop services that help reclaim value from waste.

Dedicated coffee grounds collections prevent contamination of food waste systems and transform waste into eco fuel logs, animal feed, and premium liqueur, avoiding up to 19,500 kg CO₂e per tonne.

Green waste is composted instead of incinerated and returned to clients via innovative urban logistics.

Hard‑to‑recycle paper towels are recovered and remade into new paper products, cutting general waste for sites by up to 20%.

Supported by digital reporting, expert consulting, and buy-back systems, these scalable solutions go beyond industry norms, setting new standards for circular waste management.

Used Kitchen Hub is transforming UK home renovation through circular economy principles, giving pre-owned and ex-display kitchens a second life instead of sending them to landfill.

Since 2015, Used Kitchen Hub has sold over 1700 kitchens. In the past four years alone, we have facilitated over 1100 kitchen resales, diverting around 2,200 tonnes of materials from landfill and helping households save an estimated £40 million.

Our model combines digital valuations, a curated online marketplace and professional dismantling and delivery, making kitchen reuse simple, reliable and financially rewarding. Trade partners, from developers to showrooms, can reduce waste and meet ESG targets without adding operational burden.

By removing barriers to circular practices, we are creating measurable environmental impact and shifting homeowner behaviour toward reuse over discard. The platform is scalable, replicable and demonstrates how a commercially viable business can embed sustainability at its core.

Three years ago, Standard Chartered saw a powerful opportunity – transforming waste from an afterthought into a strategic resource. Today, across 31 countries, that vision is reality, with waste reimagined as a purposeful resource. In Kenya, organic waste feeds animals. In Nigeria, organic waste feeds animals. In Poland, yesterday’s coffee grounds become tomorrow’s notebooks. Across Europe and the Americas, landfill has disappeared, with diversion rates reaching 99.9%. In Africa and the Middle East, diversion has more than tripled. Single‑use plastics have been eliminated from 63 buildings. Two sites have achieved TRUE Zero Waste Platinum Certification – including the first on the African continent. One million trees have been planted, extending impact beyond operations. This transformation happened because Standard Chartered and JLL redesigned how waste is generated, handled, and owned across operations, supply chains, and daily behaviour. The result is a globally replicated, measurable zero‑waste model others can follow.

KPMG UK’s zero waste target is transforming how a large professional services organisation manages materials and waste. Recognising that everyday office activities can generate significant waste, KPMG UK has committed to eliminating all avoidable waste from its operations by 2030, supporting its wider net zero ambition.
The programme focuses on preventing waste at source, redesigning defaults to favour re use, improving recycling quality, and embedding circular practices for furniture, food and technology. This includes removing single use items from catering, redistributing and donating furniture, saving edible food through community partnerships, composting unavoidable food waste, and trialling AI technology to reduce contamination in busy offices.
By combining innovation, strong supplier collaboration and transparent data tracking, KPMG UK has already reduced total waste by 60% against its 2019 baseline. The programme demonstrates how practical design, data led insight and collective action can deliver meaningful environmental impact at scale.

Lloyds Banking Group’s new mission to “zero waste by 2030” is being realised through an innovative circularity pilot at our Harbourside Bristol office – a real-world testbed for eliminating waste. In less than a year, recycling rates soared from ~16% to 76% and general waste volumes plummeted, thanks to colleague-led innovation and infrastructure re-design. We combined new data insights (every waste sack weighed and tracked) with behavioural nudges (no single-use cups, 18k+ plastic bottles eliminated, real-time feedback boards) to engage a large office in transforming daily habits. The result: significantly less waste, radically higher quality recycling, and an engaged workforce – all delivered on budget by a small team. This Harbourside blueprint is now scaling across our UK offices, positioning Lloyds Banking Group as a UK banking pioneer in zero-waste, circular operations.Lloyds Banking Group’s new mission to “zero waste by 2030” is being realised through an innovative circularity pilot at our Harbourside Bristol office – a real-world testbed for eliminating waste. In less than a year, recycling rates soared from ~16% to 76% and general waste volumes plummeted, thanks to colleague-led innovation and infrastructure re-design. We combined new data insights (every waste sack weighed and tracked) with behavioural nudges (no single-use cups, 18k+ plastic bottles eliminated, real-time feedback boards) to engage a large office in transforming daily habits. The result: significantly less waste, radically higher quality recycling, and an engaged workforce – all delivered on budget by a small team. This Harbourside blueprint is now scaling across our UK offices, positioning Lloyds Banking Group as a UK banking pioneer in zero-waste, circular operations.

This project addresses a hidden but significant source of healthcare emissions within the NHS: the routine preparation and disposal of unused emergency anaesthetic syringes. Across 18 operating theatres, we replaced manually prepared syringes with pre-filled syringes (PFSs) for Ephedrine and Atropine, enabling drugs to be used only when required and safely retained if unopened.

Over 20 months, this simple change delivered substantial impact. Ephedrine PFSs reduced carbon emissions by 475.2 kgCO2e and generated net savings of £58,356, while Atropine PFSs delivered a further 191.0 kgCO2e reduction. Clinical and recyclable waste fell significantly, staff productivity improved, and zero safety incidents were reported.

By integrating environmental, financial, and operational metrics, this project demonstrates that sustainability can enhance—not compromise—clinical care. With minimal training and existing infrastructure, this scalable model offers a practical blueprint for reducing waste, costs, and carbon emissions across healthcare systems globally.

Colchester PFI has transformed waste from a problem into a resource, delivering a standout waste reduction programme built on innovation, engagement, and circular economy thinking. By partnering with Re Cycle and Emmaus, reusable bikes and TVs are diverted from landfill into community value. With over 800 tonnes of waste responsibly managed in 2025, the site has achieved major reductions, increased recycling, and created lasting social impact – demonstrating strong performance in waste minimisation.

The Penpont Project, launched 2019, is the UK’s largest intergenerational nature restoration initiative of its kind, uniting a Youth Leadership Group (YLG) of 20 local young people with farmers, landowners, and scientists to restore biodiversity across 2,000 acres in the Bannau Brycheiniog. Through an innovative intergenerational decision-making model, partners are delivering habitat restoration, wetland creation, and nature-friendly farming at scale.

Practical achievements include establishing a tree nursery, planting 30,000+ trees, and installing 24 leaky woody dams, resulting in early positive ecological responses, including sightings of otters and slow worms. The on-site education programme has engaged 360 students through immersive outdoor learning; 91% felt more connected to nature post-participation.

In 2025, the project’s Youth Ranger placements provided 300+ hours of paid work experience. 100% of YLG members report gaining essential conservation skills alongside improved wellbeing, demonstrating the project’s success in fostering environmental change and building resilience.

The Soil Center upcycles agricultural byproducts, often treated as waste, into nutrient-rich soil amendments that regenerate the soil, sequester carbon, and strengthen the local economy and ecosystem of the Pacific Northwest United States. By converting culled fruit, removed orchard wood, manure, and row crop residues into soil products like biochar, compost, and worm castings, The Soil Center® has sequestered over one million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (mtCO2e) since its founding in 2022. The initiative has expanded rapidly, growing from 15,000 acres to more than 40,000, with plans to reach 60,000 acres. At full scale, it is projected to sequester over one million mtCO2e annually, offsetting approximately 15% of Washington State’s annual agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These regenerative practices generate high-integrity carbon credits, sold as insets to supply chain partners to help reduce scope 3 emissions.

Across our operational estate, we are transforming everyday workplaces into living landscapes that actively support nature’s recovery. Using science based measurement, long term ecological planning, and independent accreditation, we manage our green spaces to restore habitats, increase biodiversity, and allow natural processes to thrive – even in busy urban settings.
At key sites, we have established biodiversity baselines, implemented 10 year enhancement and management plans, and changed how land is designed, planted, and maintained. The result is measurable improvement for wildlife, from pollinators and birds to healthier soils and more resilient ecosystems, all achieved through practical, operational delivery rather than one off projects.
Crucially, this work also benefits people: creating greener, healthier places to work, supporting specialist green jobs, and proving nature recovery can be delivered at scale. Our programme shows how organisations can recover, regenerate, and rewild land they already manage – and inspire others to do the same.

Meadfleet manages over 545 acres of open space across 350+ residential developments, supporting more than 43,000 customers. In 2025, building on its award-winning Bee Friendly campaign—which delivered 30,000m² of species-rich grassland, 100,000 bulbs and 1.5km of hedgerow—it launched Buzz & Flutter, an ambitious programme driving measurable nature recovery.

The initiative enhances habitats for pollinators, birds and wildlife while embedding long-term ecological stewardship into land management. Between January 2025 and February 2026, it has delivered 60 oak trees, 2.1km of hedgerow, 3,900sqm of wildflower habitat, 76,000 bulbs and 639 bird feeders.
Delivered with leading wildlife charities, the programme is evidence-led and impact-focused. Community engagement is central, encouraging residents to support nature through events and education.

By combining large-scale habitat creation with resident action, Buzz & Flutter provides a scalable model for restoring biodiversity and creating nature-positive places where people live.

Industrial motors consume more than 45% of the world’s electricity. For decades, improving efficiency meant accepting trade-offs: rare-earth magnets, volatile supply chains, and compromised reliability. ABB’s IE6 Synchronous Reluctance (SynRM) safe area motor range changes that.
As the first manufacturer to achieve IE6 efficiency in a magnet-free design, ABB has redefined what industrial motors can deliver. Available from 110 to 450 kW, IE6 SynRM motors reach efficiency levels previously considered unattainable.
Upgrading a 110 kW application from IE4 to IE6 saves €2,560 and 4,610 kg of CO₂ annually, with payback in around eight months – compounding to 92,200 kg of CO₂ avoided and €51,200 saved over two decades. Proven across global installations and scalable across industries, IE6 SynRM technology is the new baseline for industrial efficiency – available today.
* Assuming 8760 hours running time at 75% power and an energy cost of €0.2 per kWh

BLUETTI Apex 300 is the world’s first portable power station supporting 12,000W / 50A bypass capability. It combines high performance with unprecedented ease of use. Its modular architecture enables true plug-and-play functionality, with automatic system recognition and no manual configuration required. Paired with a flexible ecosystem of accessories, it allows users to build personalized energy systems effortlessly. The project was fully developed in-house, involving cross-functional teams across R&D, product, design, and marketing. From initial development in mid-2024 to launch in May 2025, the process spanned nearly a year. More than a product, Apex 300 represents a rethinking of how energy should be used—simpler, smarter, and more sustainable for everyday life.

Providing electrification options for material handling operations that traditionally rely on internal combustion engine (ICE)-powered trucks delivers clear environmental, economic and operational benefits. With lithium-ion electric alternatives like the J230-400XD and XTLG series lift trucks, Hyster enables outdoor and high-capacity applications – such as lumber yards, ports and heavy industrial sites – to eliminate tailpipe emissions without sacrificing durability or performance. These trucks use less energy than comparable diesel models and can save tens of thousands of pounds of CO2 per truck annually, directly supporting decarbonization efforts in supply chains, which generate most of organizations’ greenhouse gas emissions. Fast charging, reduced maintenance and lower energy consumption can help lower total cost of operation and make electrification accessible across more market segments. By overcoming long-standing barriers to electrification in demanding environments, Hyster is helping accelerate the adoption of zero-emission lift trucks and is delivering meaningful, scalable sustainability gains for industries worldwide.

Cleaning that’s genuinely good; for people, planet and purpose.

The professional cleaning industry has long run on petrochemicals; fossil fuel-derived actives that persist in the environment and expose cleaning operatives to unnecessary chemical hazards every working day. Jangro ntrl was built to change that. By replacing petrochemical actives entirely with biotechnology and naturally derived ingredients, the range delivers independently verified environmental savings, safer working conditions and a certified sustainability portfolio spanning Global GreenTag, Vegan Society and EU Ecolabel – with every social impact commitment funded from Jangro’s own budget, never passed on to customers. The results speak for themselves: 37.9% average CO₂e saving across 30 products; 4,044kg of ocean-bound plastic recovered; 4,029 UK trees planted; and 24% year-on-year commercial growth – with 16 new lines added and the most sustainable formats growing fastest. This is responsible procurement without compromise, delivered at scale.

SolGen is a UK designed and manufactured solar hybrid generator created to replace traditional diesel generators on off grid sites with cleaner, quieter and more intelligent power. Developed in house since the first prototype in 2023, SolGen combines solar harvesting, lithium battery storage, smart energy management and an HVO compatible backup generator in one mobile road towable unit. Its unique tracking solar panel array follows the sun to maximise solar gain, while remote monitoring records power use, solar production, fuel levels, battery status and CO2 savings. On customer sites, SolGen has delivered major reductions in fuel use, emissions, generator runtime and noise. At Anglian Water, one unit achieved 91 percent solar use, 45 fully solar powered days and 23,378 kg CO2 saved over 62 days. At Skanska, SolGen reduced fuel use by 93 percent and saved 22,174 kg CO2 over 52 days.

Zendure SolarFlow 2400 Pro helps households turn self-generated solar power into a cleaner, smarter and more resilient everyday energy source. Designed for balcony and rooftop PV systems, it combines 2400W bi-directional AC power, four independent MPPTs, expandable 2.4–16.8kWh storage and plug-and-play installation to store daytime solar energy for evening use, reduce grid dependence and support critical loads during outages. Through Zendure HEMS 2.0, ZENKI™ AI and ZenWave™ dynamic tariff intelligence, the system automatically coordinates solar generation, battery charging, grid import and flexible household loads such as heat pumps and EV charging, helping users optimise consumption and lower electricity costs. With a 6,000-cycle battery, an expected service life of up to 12 years and ZenGuard™ multi-layer battery protection, SolarFlow 2400 Pro is designed to reduce replacement needs and make home energy storage safer, more durable and more sustainable.

The Baa-ttery Campaign is an award-winning initiative tackling one of the UK waste sector’s fastest-growing safety risks: fires caused by incorrectly disposed batteries and vapes. Created by Biffa in partnership with local authorities, schools, fire services and Valpak, the campaign uses creative education to drive real behavioural change. At its heart is SuperEwe—a memorable mascot that made battery recycling fun and accessible through school competitions, live fire demonstrations, media campaigns, outdoor advertising and digital content. In just four months, the campaign engaged 269 primary schools, with over 70% participating and collecting more than two tonnes of batteries. Following its success, it expanded across Cumbria, achieving 75% school participation and collecting a further 1.5 tonnes. Battery-related fires at local MBTs fell from 59 to 31, proving that creative communications can deliver measurable environmental and operational impact.

Teenagers are growing up in a world where sharing nudes and talking to strangers online has become normal – putting them at serious risk, and contributing to a horrific rise in child sexual abuse material on the internet.

That’s why the Internet Watch Foundation partnered with Consider to create a communications campaign to get teenagers, parents, carers, and educators talking about the issue, and most importantly, de-normalise nude sharing.

The creative idea was simple but brilliant: sexualised fruit, pushed to the limits of what’s shareable. By pairing shock and humour with a one-line heuristic, ‘Think Before You Share’, the campaign was flexible for different audiences yet sharp enough to stop teenagers scrolling.

The campaign was an astonishing success – smashing industry benchmarks, delivering 122M+ impressions, 350K+ clicks and an astounding 94% YouTube view-through rate, 3x the industry benchmark.

The United Nations identifies a “triple planetary crisis” of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Pollution is the most visible, with litter harming nature, contaminating water, and jeopardizing community health. For many, eco-anxiety, the fear that individual actions can’t match the scale of the crisis, has replaced optimism.
The National Wildlife Federation and Johnson Outdoors designed the Clean Earth Challenge to break that cycle, replacing helplessness with visible, collective action. What began as a goal of removing 1 million pieces grew to 13.2 million, ~1,200% above target, across 10+ countries, with ~350,000 participants and 50+ national partners, including Behr Paints, New York Life, Major League Fishing, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
Post-participation surveys reveal durable change: 87% feel more hopeful that their actions matter, 82% feel more connected to nature, and 95% intend to do it again, turning single acts into lasting stewardship that grows with every season.

Octoplus is a pioneering tech-for-good customer loyalty scheme from Octopus Energy that uses world-leading Kraken technology to transform passive energy consumers into active grid participants. We’ve simplified the challenge of grid flexibility into a fun, rewarding experience by converting grid signals into real-time notifications for Saving Sessions and Free Electricity events. Gamified rewards, including Octopoints and Wheel of Fortune, encourage new and lasting customer behaviours. By engaging 3 million energy-saving participants across the UK, we’ve unlocked 10GW of grid flexibility, while saving 533 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel backup. We’ve partnered with brands to unlock £19 million in available rewards directly tackling the cost-of-living crisis. Our 68% redemption rate, 3x higher than comparable schemes, demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach in normalising energy-saving behaviours. For all these reasons and more Octoplus is a unique, scalable and impactful behaviour change campaign: a worthy winner of this year’s Award.

Nature investment is stalling – not from lack of ambition, but lack of confidence. Our survey of 200 Chief Sustainability Officers in January 2026 found that 58% say integrity concerns have reduced or prevented their organisations’ investment in nature projects. After screening more than 1,000 projects over five years, we found that over 90% fail minimum quality standards when assessed across carbon, biodiversity and people.

Keystone 3.0 is our answer. Launched at the start of this year, we believe it is the most comprehensive nature project assessment framework on the market leveraging 168 quality indicators, a confidence+evidence dual scoring system, and an AI-driven pre-screening tool that reduces a week of human work to five minutes. All final scoring is deliberately human expert-led. The result: a level of accuracy leading to investment decisions that are defensible to boards and regulators, and funding flowing to projects that genuinely deliver.

Construction companies increasingly need reliable, product-level CO₂ data. Yet, collecting and consolidating it across thousands of items is slow, costly and often impossible. Hilti’s Product Impact Analyzer changes that: it turns customers’ actual Hilti purchases into a CO₂ spreadsheet and interactive dashboards, giving CO₂ transparency for virtually every product they buy.
Hilti’s CO₂ analyzing tool supports decision-making in two critical moments: during design/pre-sales (to compare options and reduce embodied carbon early) and post-sales (to track footprints and support sustainability reporting). Today, Hilti provides CO₂ data for over 90% of products of products sold, with continuous data-quality improvements.
The service has already enabled measurable reductions. For example, a major industrial project achieved 17% less material and ~20 t CO₂ savings. The service means productivity gains for customers, cutting data-collection efforts by an estimated 98%.

Noise pollution is a major global health and environmental challenge, linked to cardiovascular disease, sleep disruption, cognitive impairment, and reduced quality of life. Yet for over a century, effective noise reduction has required blocking airflow, making it impractical in buildings, healthcare settings, transportation, and infrastructure where ventilation is essential. We developed a new class of ultra-open acoustic metamaterials that suppress noise while remaining highly permeable to air, using engineered structures to control how sound waves propagate rather than blocking them. Building on our earlier work, our 2025 breakthrough enables broadband noise reduction with up to 70% openness, creating quiet, breathable environments for the first time across real-world systems. Lightweight, passive, and scalable, the system integrates into existing infrastructure without added energy consumption, supporting improved air quality, reduced energy demand, enhanced comfort, and sustainable design at global scale, benefiting diverse communities worldwide across healthcare, buildings, industry, and urban infrastructure systems globally.

Radiant Technologies eradicates energy poverty across the Pacific by replacing abandoned, donor-funded solar panels with a private-sector-led energy sharing economy. Built on deep community partnerships, our model directly empowers local populations.

We deploy resilient solar microgrids at village stores, where owners use mobile money to rent charged LED lanterns to neighbors. This AI-powered ecosystem currently serves 2,000 beneficiaries across 10 communities and 400 households.

Unlike traditional aid, we retain full responsibility for operations and maintenance, ensuring systems never fail. Our proprietary Edge-AI and secure SaaS guarantee grid stability in extreme off-grid environments.

Crucially, we closely align with government electrification initiatives, acting as a complementary private-sector force to advance society. Validated in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea, this bankable blueprint transforms basic energy access, targeting over 400,000 lives empowered by 2030.

ScottishPower is on a mission to make Home Energy Management easier and cheaper for over 4 million customers up and down the UK.

Going beyond being a straightforward energy supplier, we now empower our customers to make simple but powerful behavioural changes at home that help them reduce their carbon footprint and make substantial savings on their energy bills.

Whether it’s through personalised analysis of their home energy consumption and tips for cutting down usage, or our smart EV charging product that gives customers uncapped bill credit, we offer a full range of easy-to-use tech tools that are a win-win for households and for the planet.

We’ve already engaged more than 1 million of our customers with these smart green tools, shifting hundreds of GWhs of energy to off-peak grid times and helping customers save up to £100s a year in the process.

Datacenters power every digital service – email, cloud, AI, payments – and are one of the fastest-rising emissions sources of any industrial sector. Yet most “green” claims are never independently verified.
The SDEA Navigator and Label change that. The Navigator is the only online tool worldwide measuring a datacenter’s full operational sustainability – facility efficiency, IT efficiency, carbon, water – on twelve months of real operating data. The Label converts measurement into independently audited certification.

Eleven certified datacenters now run on 21% energy overhead vs. a global average of 35%. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has cut overhead by 20% across two audits. Digital Realty’s Zurich site holds SDEA Platinum – the highest grade ever issued.

The framework is written into Swiss cantonal law, recommended by the German Environment Ministry as a blueprint for EU legislation, and recognized by the IEA as the only certification quantifying both datacenter and IT efficiency.

Climate change: an issue without the possibility of retreat. Rather than ignoring the defining challenge or, like many, curating ESG reports simply to tick a box, ABB is leveraging its engineering expertise to innovate technologies that are truly ‘Engineered to Outrun’. And ABB’s LV Titanium Variable Speed Motor (VSM) does exactly that.

Industrial motor systems account for 60% of industrial electricity demand – representing 25% of global electricity demand – yet poor motor efficiency remains a problem. LV Titanium combines a high-efficiency motor and drive in one streamlined unit, delivering IE5 efficiency. With built-in speed control, applications powered by LV Titanium only use the energy required rather than running flat-out. In a typical 15 kW centrifugal pump application, LV Titanium would avoid 11,600 kg of CO₂ emissions annually, saving a total of 174,000 kg of emissions over a 15-year lifetime. Now imagine this scaled worldwide. The impact would be transformational.

AutisticOrNot is an autistic-founded digital platform addressing a growing global access crisis in adult autism assessment. Private diagnosis can cost around £2,000 and public waiting lists can extend up to 2 years, leaving many adults without answers during periods of burnout, underemployment and uncertainty. The project is grounded in a simple belief: clarity about your own mind is a human right, not a privilege reserved for those with money or time. Delivered entirely online, it provides a rigorous, evidence-informed reflection that anyone can access affordably from home. Built without AI at its core and developed without agencies or investors, it uses a carefully curated 237-factor framework to generate detailed personalised reports with clear clinical boundaries. Launched in October 2025, AutisticOrNot has rapidly grown into one of the UK’s leading independent assessors of its kind, breaking structural barriers to self-understanding at scale.

Mobility Mojo is transforming accessibility in the built environment. Co-founded by the accessibility advocates and wheelchair users Stephen Cluskey and Noelle Daly, the company has developed a cloud-based software platform that helps companies around the world ensure their buildings are open and welcoming to all.

By partnering with Mobility Mojo, some of the world’s largest companies have made their workplaces more accessible to people with disabilities, people who are neurodiverse and older adults. We have helped some of the world’s largest companies – like Coca-Cola, Eli Lilly, Sodexo and UBS – turn their commitments into reality for their employees and visitors. Through our customers and our advocacy, we are building a more accessible world.

Today, Mobility Mojo has assessed more than 1,500 buildings across over 100 countries, using the highest international standards. We have improved the daily experiences of more than one million people, ensuring everyone can participate fully.

Cosy 12 is an extension of Octopus Energy’s heat pump line, a high temperature (70 degree Celsius) model to decarbonise larger, older and less energy-efficient homes. It functions as an app-controlled ecosystem, integrating hardware, software, tariff, installation and remote management.

Cosy 12 is 4.7x more efficient than a gas boiler and saves 1.933 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions annually (gas boiler households emit 2.22 metric tonnes). Design innovations have cut installation costs to a market-low of £3,818 (when aligned with government grants), a £1,477 saving vs average market offerings whilst unlocking £219 savings a year in running costs.

Commercial success since Jan 2026 has been strong: 427 units sold and 189 installations completed – significant progress towards our 1,000 UK target for 2026. Additionally, Cosy heat pumps are integral to our global ‘Zero Bills’ standard – targeting 100,000 emission- and bill-free homes worldwide by 2030.

Oritain is a global leader in forensic origin verification. Using cutting edge science, advanced technology, and specialized services, we independently verify the origin of products and raw materials – protecting brand integrity, supporting compliance, and strengthening supply chain trust and transparency. Our method is resistant to tampering, court-admissible, and trusted by suppliers and manufacturers, brands and retailers, consumers, and regulators.
Purpose driven, we are committed to advancing the scientific techniques and systems needed to authenticate the origin of the world’s most critical commodities – enabling more ethical, resilient, and accountable supply chains.
Our Membership Program shifts companies from reactive auditing to proactive supply chain risk mitigation, supporting a global community of origin-verified brands and suppliers committed to responsible sourcing. Launched alongside the strategic acquisition of three European laboratories, the program has unlocked Oritain’s expansion into leather and timber – enabling greater access to forensic origin verification services across the world.

Every day, the UK built environment loses billions of litres of water to undetected leaks, a staggering environmental and financial crisis hidden behind walls and under floors. Quensus was founded in 2015 to stop this at the source.

The idea was born when founder Dr Dan Simmons following a personal encounter with hidden water damage, LeakNet is an AI-driven water management system that learns the unique water profile of each building, detects anomalies in sub-minute timeframes and automatically isolates the water supply before damage or waste can escalate.

At Heathrow Airport, LeakNet delivered 26% water savings and a 1.7-tonne CO2 reduction across more than 400 monitored assets. At Notts County Football Club, it identified over 21,000 litres of daily water loss within the first 24 hours.

Built in Britain using recycled materials and validated by insurers Aviva and Chubb, LeakNet is redefining how water waste is prevented at scale.

Andy Lang is the founder of Munny Group and a leading advocate for financial education as a form of prevention, not crisis response. His leadership is shaped by lived experience and over two decades working across debt advice, insolvency, banking and financial education, supporting people only once financial problems had already escalated.

Andy firmly believes the absence of financial education is a systemic failure. As he often puts it, we require lessons, assessments and licenses to drive, yet people are given access to money without a single lesson on how it works. His work focuses on changing that reality.

Through Munny, Andy has led the development of independent, education-first financial support across workplaces, sport and communities, influencing national bodies including the FA, the Premier League and the LFBF’s Financial Capability Steering Committee.

Andy doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the talk.

Tara Nathan is a visionary leader redefining how inclusive technology can scale real world impact. As Founder of Mastercard’s Community Pass, she has pioneered an innovative digital platform that expands access to essential services for people in low income and limited technology communities, enabling rural smallholder farmers to participate fully in the digital economy, while also supporting broader commercial outcomes.

Under Tara’s leadership, Community Pass has helped farmers access fair markets, quality inputs like seeds and fertilizers, digital payments, and credit which has led, anecdotally, to increased productivity, reduced losses and 25% to 50% higher prices for harvest yields. Tara’s strength is the ability to align commercial sustainability with social purpose.

From early pilots in East Africa to multi country deployments across Africa and Asia, Tara’s work has engaged millions of farmers. Tara is not simply widening access; she is reshaping systems.

At QNB Türkiye (QNB), we believe that sustainable finance is the most fundamental way to support national and global sustainable development goals. As a result of this approach, we committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050, covering operational and financed emissions. We aim to facilitate compliance with evolving net-zero pathways, enable sector-specific decarbonization, and provide transparent reporting to track environmental and social outcomes. In 2025, QNB marked a series of significant milestones in sustainable finance. The bank became the first in Türkiye to sign a sustainability-linked syndicated loan structured exclusively with 2- and 3-year tenor tranches. In parallel, QNB issued a Climate Transition Bond(CTB) in collaboration with IFC, marking the first-ever issuance of a CTB by a financial institution globally and also IFC’s first-ever investment in transition financing. Moreover, QNB launched a triple-impact sustainable bond with the EBRD, aligned with the ICMA principles, underscoring QNB’s focus on sustainable finance.

Triodos Bank UK’s Wellbeing team is redefining what finance can achieve when purpose leads. The success of a transaction is measured not only in loan amount, but in stability, dignity and the day-to-day lives made better.

Specialising in health and social care, the team partners with organisations supporting adults and children with complex needs – from residential and nursing care homes to therapeutic children’s services and residential family centres – guided by the bank’s 30+ year commitment to values-based lending.

In 2025 alone, the team approved over £300m in new lending, supporting 81 care homes and more than 3,000 residents. Behind every facility is a community: residents, families, care teams and local services that need the reassurance of a long-term partner.

The team evolves its lending criteria to reflect day-to-day operational realities across the sector, shaped by real conversations with the people they support.

We are celebrating the partnership between ESquared, deafPLUS and Deafax working in collaboration with the financial sector Deaf Inclusion Industry Group (DIIG), set up in 2022 by Kathryn Townsend, then Disability and Access Ambassador for Banking. ESquared created Signing banks UK (SBUK) in 2023 and formed partnerships with deafPLUS and Deafax in 2024. Together we are closing the gap between banking and their deaf customers.

The impact: We have recently co-published our Deaf Equity in Financial Services: 2026 Report- From Provision to Proficiency: Bridging the Financial “Outcome Gap”. This demonstrates a sector-wide uplift with improved inclusive practice and use of inclusive technology almost ubiquitous across DIIG members. Proving what is possible when lived experience, expertise, and a shared commitment come together. However the report provides evidence that deaf customers are still excluded. Banking must go further to embed lived experience into core operations and close the communication gap.

20m in the UK are financially insecure and 14m have no access to mainstream credit. Many turn to loan sharks to feed their families, or go hungry.

Food Club is a growing partnership between ethical credit provider Fair for You and Iceland supermarket, transforming access to food. It provides a flexible, interest-free micro credit facility enabling families to smooth the cost of food shops during high need periods, reducing reliance on food banks, high-cost lenders and loan sharks.

Since launch, Food Club has supported 40,000 households, with loans totalling £15m. Independent evaluation shows 77% reduce or stop using food banks and 74% stop using illegal money lenders. Food Club is proven to strengthen financial resilience whilst preserving dignity, choice and wellbeing.

Food Club is scaling nationally as a sustainable, dignified alternative to crisis food aid – demonstrating how collaboration can tackle food insecurity at its root, not just its symptoms.

Foresters Financial is tackling the investment advice gap by championing Basic Advice, a regulated, simplified advice model. Millions of UK adults potentially need regulated support but are excluded by cost and complexity. Since 2005, Foresters has operated the only proven, economically viable Basic Advice model at scale, delivering around 100,000 adviser appointments annually.

Recently, Foresters has shared its 20 years’ experience with policymakers and industry to position Basic Advice as a core solution to the advice gap. This engagement directly contributed to the FCA recognising Basic Advice in its consultation on simplifying pensions and investment advice.

By removing upfront fees and using a scripted, decision tree model, Foresters enables affordable, high quality advice for under-served customers. Market modelling suggests this approach could support 2.4–4.3 million adults if scaled across the industry, significantly improving financial inclusion nationwide.

NatWest Thrive is a nationally scaled financial confidence and future‑skills programme, created through a long‑term partnership between NatWest and the National Youth Agency (NYA to address two urgent challenges: low financial confidence, particularly among young people in underserved communities, and workforce pressures across the youth sector.

Delivered in youth‑club settings by trusted youth workers, NatWest Thrive combines practical money skills with confidence, mindset and future‑planning, grounding learning in lived experience. The NYA leads programme design, delivery, quality assurance and sector engagement, supported by a dedicated national delivery team, while NatWest provides funding and specialist expertise.

What sets NatWest Thrive apart is its whole‑system impact. Alongside measurable improvements in young people’s confidence, understanding and financial behaviours, the partnership strengthens the youth sector itself. In 2025, NatWest funded one in three degree‑level youth‑work apprenticeships in the UK, demonstrating how cross‑sector collaboration can deliver lasting social change.

Financial Foundations is NatWest Group’s rapidly scaling adult financial education programme, delivering free, impartial money guidance in workplaces and communities across the UK. Following a successful 2024 pilot and national rollout in 2025 reaching over 32,000 people, the programme is now expanding to support 50,000 people in 2026, with a clear internal ambition to scale well beyond this level. Delivered by a growing network of trained colleagues, it equips adults with practical skills to budget, save, manage debt and protect themselves from fraud. In 2026, the programme is evolving further, with expanded content (including a new savings and investment workshop), an enhanced facilitator learning journey, and strengthened processes and infrastructure. By leveraging NatWest Group’s unique business relationships, Financial Foundations reaches people where they live and work – driving measurable improvements in money skills, knowledge and behaviour.

The Little Book of Nature Business is a simple, inspirational guide to investing in the nature-positive economy. At the moment nature is worth more dead than alive. Annually US$7.3 trillion flows into nature-negative activities dwarfing the US$220 billion that supports nature-based solutions.

Already downloaded almost 2000 times by professionals working in over 50 different countries, the Little Book of Nature Business seeks to launch the great nature turnaround, offering a framework to businesses, investors, lenders and policymakers.

For too long investment and business opportunities that can benefit nature have been wrongly typecast as limited to “bees, trees and farmers”. The Little Book busts that myth by showcasing innovative business and investment opportunities from 80+ case studies, spanning eight economic sectors including food, construction, utilities and extractives. These opportunities have significant potential to scale and support the global transition to a US$10tn nature-positive economy.

In 2025, the US government cancelled $1.5 billion in federal funding for nearly 1,600 renewable energy projects on Native American lands. Because traditional banks and investors often lack understanding of Tribal governance and financing structures, shovel-ready and mid-construction projects nationwide were left stranded without access to private capital.

Huurav Energy was formed to mobilize a Native-led team of clean energy specialists, finance experts and philanthropists empower Native communities to tackle this funding crisis and we have already facilitated a $1 million bridge loan for a microgrid now serving a Tribal community previously coping with both energy poverty and outages due to environmental conditions.

By engineering a first-of-its-kind ecosystem of Native-led banks, community development financial institutions (CDFIs) and philanthropies, we are creating a scalable engine for equitable climate action, pairing high-impact capital with deep financial literacy training and technical expertise, ensuring Tribes are empowered to determine their own clean energy futures.

The Women in Safe Homes fund was launched in December 2020 by Patron Capital and Resonance Limited to respond to the acute of safe, secure housing for women experiencing or at risk of homelessness, domestic abuse and other complex challenges. With domestic abuse a leading cause of homelessness for women and children in the UK, the fund applies a pioneering gender‑lens approach to real estate investment, working in partnership with specialist women’s charities to deliver long‑term, supportive housing.The fund has created 122 homes, leased to trusted partners who provide secure tenancies alongside wraparound support, empowering women to rebuild their lives. It houses 680 women and their children, with 95% of tenants feeling safe in their homes. Backed by £29m from 20 impact investors, the fund has also driven strong environmental upgrades, improved energy efficiency, and played an active role in influencing policy and system‑wide change.

The climate finance field is moving billions — but not strategically. Despite explosive growth, nearly 90% of tracked private capital flows to energy transition alone, leaving nature-based solutions and regenerative agriculture critically underfunded. Funders still lack the clarity they need to compare funding across solutions and understand where capital is most urgently needed.

One Earth is changing this with a new dynamic online climate finance report called Minding the Gaps, along with the One Earth Solutions Finance Tracker—a first-of-its-kind tool built with our partners at Vibrant Data Labs that maps nearly $400B in private climate finance (investments and philanthropic capital in the US) to 70+ climate solutions across energy transition, nature conservation, and regenerative agriculture.

For the first time, investors, philanthropists, and field-builders can compare real capital flows against a comprehensive scientific roadmap to help deploy capital more strategically to the solutions we need now.

Financial Literacy Australia is a founder-built Australian social enterprise delivering accessibility-first financial literacy and life-skill education to people with disability, including in regional and remote communities. Delivery pairs face-to-face mentoring and guidance with modular, gamified learning and supports for participants learning solo, with family, with a support worker or with a facilitator. FLAUS is also developing a learning app to extend this model at scale, using AI inside the app to power adaptive learning pathways so each participant’s journey responds to their goals, pace and support context. Independently verified as a social enterprise, with a Monash University ethics approval for co-design research and recognised at the MAIA Awards Singapore 2025 (first place – global fintech/AI category).

Climate risk is now capital risk. Banks, insurers, and asset managers know where they are exposed; few have the tools to decide what to do about it. Jupiter Adaptation Hub closes that gap. Built within ClimateScore Global, it quantifies the avoided losses, costs, and ROI of specific resilience measures — flood barriers, cooling upgrades, wildfire hardening — across multiple time horizons and warming scenarios.

Global analyses estimate that every dollar invested in adaptation generates between two and twelve dollars in avoided losses and broader economic benefit. Adaptation Hub gives financial institutions, governments, and infrastructure operators the analytics to act on that opportunity, with the scientific rigour regulators and boards require. The platform is trusted by three of the five largest U.S. banks and 4 of the world’s top 10 asset management firms.

Millions of people avoid engaging with their money until something goes wrong. Not because they don’t care, but because financial support is often confusing, intimidating, salesy or simply unavailable when it’s needed most.

Munny created eM, an AI-powered money coach, to change that.

eM provides impartial, judgement-free financial education that people can access privately, 24/7, at the exact moment a financial issue arises. It helps users understand everyday money decisions, take practical next steps and build confidence over time, without being sold to or assessed.

Launched February 2025, eM has supported thousands of people across workplaces, sport and education. Users report improved understanding, earlier action on debt, increased saving and reduced financial stress. Employers see fewer reactive crises and better-targeted wellbeing support through anonymised insight reporting.

By combining ethical AI, behavioural understanding and trusted partnerships, eM is closing the gap between financial anxiety and confident action; at scale, and sustainably.

Terraformation has developed an open-source platform to close a significant technological gap for local teams to scale biodiverse, community-led reforestation projects. Biodiverse reforestation sequesters 2x the carbon of monoculture or exotic species projects while bolstering biodiversity and helping vulnerable communities achieve the SDGs. But a comprehensive global survey to discover the bottlenecks to scaling projects revealed that 70% of forest creation teams don’t have adequate access to technology, and 95% don’t have sufficient funding.

Built by foresters for foresters, Terraware simplifies the complex stages of reforestation projects to improve project timelines and efficacy, while supporting teams in aligning with investor expectations for planning and tracking, particularly those shopping on the carbon markets. It’s a novel combination of tools in one platform, experiencing exponential growth in two years since launch. Terraware is tracking 4.6 million trees, over 450 different native species, through registered projects by 1203 teams.