Impact Report

Welcome to our new home for reporting our impact year-on-year now that we have finally become a B Corp. 

We have always had strong beliefs about how to run a business in the right way; how we treat our team, how we work with clients and what we put out into the world and becoming a B Corp proves that what we say, is what we do.

B Corp has enabled us to truly cement our beliefs about what Few and Far should be – and be held accountable to those beliefs, through every action.

Our continued practice of only working with good causes has seen our name grow as a symbol of trust within a typically risk-averse sector and the hundreds of hours we dedicate each year to voluntary work and pro-bono projects highlights our continued commitment to our local community, the third sector and the planet.

We can only help charities to make the world a better place if we are also doing our part as a responsible business, so this is it. This is our year in review, a year we’re really proud of.

As a Certified B Corporation, Few and Far becomes a leader in the global movement for an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy.

B Corp is a unique certification due to their ability to measure a company’s entire social & environmental impact through a rigorous assessment process.

Assessment took us two years and required detailing our impact across five key pillars: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment & Customers.

118.9 is the B Impact score we received, which puts us in the top 20% of all B Corps in the UK and in the top 10% of agencies.

For context, this Impact website will showcase our work based on the previously mentioned five key pillars, to give insight into everything we’ve done to get up to this point.

We’re honoured to become a B Corp and join over 2,400 of them in the UK that are using their business for good.

Who we work with and the work we put out speaks for itself. By only working with charities, social enterprises and community interest companies, we are laser focused in our mission and are fully transparent about who we work with and who we do not.

We took this a step further by changing our Articles of Association on Companies House to move away from being simply a business for profit (shareholder primacy) and towards one that is for profit and the planet (stakeholder interest).

Our updated mission lock now states: The purposes of the Company are: a. to promote the success of the Company for the benefit of its members as a whole; and b. through its business and operations, to have a material positive impact on society and the environment, taken as a whole.

Over the last few years we have found that people really align with our values as a company and for the work we do in the third-sector. This has been a great way of finding the right team members to be part of our team for the long-term.

In 2024, we welcomed Holly (pictured) as our Digital Marketing Manager – she has been integral in reaching out to more good causes with our free Impact Optimiser website audit service and connecting us with more membership networks, enabling us to provide value to a wider audience throughout the year.

We also work closely with Phil Clarke from Consciam who has been our guiding light on B Corp Certification and someone we constantly turned to over the two years it took us to get accredited.

We said goodbye to Cristina after almost a year of service. As a Developer she worked on client projects that we’re immensely proud of, she attended Laravel Live as a ‘Larabelle’ and created some brilliant tools that have brought real value to the sector. We wish her and her wonderful family all the best for the future.

Finally, as a staff benefit, all of our employees now have health cover with Bupa. This is something we have wanted to implement for a number of years and are delighted to add this to an ever-expanding list of benefits to our Employee Handbook.

Col took a step back from his annual dancing fundraiser this year and instead Tom did some abseiling and zip–lining! He did a climb and descent of Ilkley’s beautiful Cow & Calf Rocks, all in aid of Mind in Bradford.

Separately we brought our annual streaming fundraiser Get Together Through Gaming back with a bang – raising over £7k for Leeds Mind with donations via the new website which we created for them, pro-bono. The event welcomed sponsors for the first time too, with contributions from businesses all across West Yorkshire.

We continue to be a member of Leeds Community Foundation and had the opportunity to witness the impact of our annual contribution to the Leeds Fund in the flesh at their annual Community Engagement event in May.

Further afield (globally in fact) we continue to provide our Impact Optimiser: a free audit for any and all good causes, providing one audit every week for over 2 years, with actionable insights in to how to improve their website.

As a small business using rented office space in the heart of Leeds, being as green as possible is something we’re looking to improve upon – and advocating for – over the next couple of years.

To offset green building improvements that we aren’t in a position to make ourselves, we continue to give to environmental causes as part of our 1% for the Planet commitment.

1% for the Planet is a globally recognised certification and commitment from us to provide 1% of our total revenue to environment causes, every year – whether we make a profit or not.

We chose one that is helping the wider fight for the planet through advocacy and education called Hope For The Future who are based in Sheffield and have been operating for over a decade.

Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust received the other half of our donation – a cause close to any of us who’ve ever experienced the surrounding area of where we’re proud to call home. YDMT deliver local support for climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality in access to nature.

People like Colleen from M2 (pictured) exist to empower young children in schools.

M2 is a ready-to-active programme to empower young girls across the UK through movement and mindfulness. Colleen is a client of ours (or customer according to B Corp), but more importantly she is a partner of ours.

All of our clients we deem to be partners and their cause becomes as important to us as it already is for them through our collaborations together.

Our partners range from social enterprises which remove paint from landfill, charities supporting children with neuroblastoma, mental health support or domestic abuse, to community interest companies such as M2, to sport and neurodiversity foundations.

Every one of our partners is improving the lives of people, or making a difference to our planet. They mean the world to us, just like the world means a lot to them.

The new year has already started at full speed for us and we’ve been busier in Q1 of 2025 than any other quarter since our inception in 2018.

We’ve recently welcomed a new member to the team to enable us to support more good causes, raised more money than ever before for mental health support and are really excited about the projects 2025 still has in store for us.

We already have some wonderful website, creative storytelling and rebrand projects to reveal and we can't wait for them to finally be open for the world to see.

We thank you for taking the time to read this years report and hope you found it to be insightful. If you’d like to speak to us about projects that can increase your charities impact, get in touch.