What We Do

 

Thrive is a sustainability and ESG consultancy dedicated to working with companies and their investors to ensure they continue to thrive in a changing world. 

We help you navigate the world of sustainability, resulting in clarity, confidence, and compliance.

 
 
 

Our Services for companies

  • We help you navigate the process of data collection and analysis by assessing your current ESG position and comparing this against existing and emerging regulations. 

    This includes:

    • Audit of current ESG performance and benchmarking

    • Assess ESG readiness and create risk and opportunity tables

    • Regulation review (current and horizon scanning)

    • ESG Gap Analysis and Recommendations Report 

  • We combine real-life conversation with desk-based research to find out exactly what your stakeholders (customers, regulators and investors) expect of your company and your peers, now and into the future. 

    We document and synthesise the results into golden insight that provides evidence, motivation and strength to your business decisions.

    This includes:

    • Insight reviews: Peer, competitors, investor, customers

    • Market scan

    • Regulatory horizon scan

  • We prioritise and plot your most essential sustainability tasks (informed by audit, research and insight) onto a roadmap, backed by a clear strategy, to drive practical and realistic action.

    This includes:

    • Ambition setting

    • Investment policy development & integration 

    • Target setting & delivery plans

    • Development of an action-orientated Sustainability/ESG roadmap

    • Policy development: e.g. Social Value policy, Responsible Investing policy

    • Implementation support

    • Net Zero planning and Climate transition plans

    • Materiality assessments and issue prioritisation (Using the Double Materiality approach)

  • We work with your teams to establish a disclosure framework that satisfies your and your stakeholders’ needs, identify the data set and metrics required and identify the sources. Set up a process and introduce software to help manage this.

    This includes:

    • Development of Sustainability/ESG report template

    • Identification of disclosures required to meet relevant regulation (now and in the future)

    • Alignment with relevant ESG frameworks

    • Supporting data collation and disclosures

    • Anti-greenwashing advice and review

    • Senior leadership training on Sustainability/ESG key topics 

    • Interim or part-time CSO - Support of in-house Sustainability/ESG experts to build capability

    • Portfolio company training and support

    • Board and Senior leadership training on Sustainability/ESG with focus on key topics

The Thrive ESG Gap Map

Giving you confidence in ESG disclosure compliance.

Reporting on ESG performance is fast becoming non-negotiable and compulsory for businesses. As the rigour and breadth of disclosures increase, so can the complexity. The Thrive ESG Gap Map helps you navigate the world of ESG compliance with confidence.

Our Services for investment firms

  • We help you integrate ESG into your diligence process to identify potential risks and opportunities that could impact an investment's long-term value and sustainability:

    This includes:

    • Identification of the sustainability topics that are material to prospective portfolio companies

    • Guidance on the KPIs to request and interrogate

    • Market sector insights to feed into diligence analysis

  • We work with key players in your portfolio companies’ management teams to ensure they consider, integrate and report on relevant ESG issues.

    This includes:

    • Portfolio company training on how to identify and integrate material ESG risks and opportunities into their business planning

    • Providing portfolio companies with tools to develop effective and credible sustainability strategies

    • Guidance for Portfolio Companies on best practice/industry standards in sustainability in their sector

  • We ensure your investment policy reflects and formalises your firm’s position on Impact or Responsible Investing.

    This includes:

    • Facilitated workshops with your senior team to discuss and establish your firm’s chosen investment approach

    • Development of a structured investment policy or code to formalise your approach to responsible investment or impact investment

    • Development of a framework to provide guidance on your chosen approach throughout the investment cycle

  • We work with your teams to establish a disclosure framework that satisfies your and your stakeholders’ and crucially, your regulator’s needs, identify the data set and metrics required and identify the sources. Set up a process and introduce software to help manage this.

    This includes:

    • Development of Sustainability/ESG report template

    • Alignment with relevant ESG frameworks

    • Supporting data collation and disclosures

    • Anti-greenwashing advice and review

    • Senior leadership training on Sustainability/ESG key topics 

    • Interim or part-time CSO - Support of in-house Sustainability/ESG experts to build capability

    • Portfolio company training and support

We provide:

  • Project-based and ongoing support relating to ESG and sustainability

  • We help you build a strong internal business case for sustainability

  • We assess your current sustainability status, identify gaps in relation to your stakeholders' expectations, and outline how to address them.

  • Our services include market and regulatory insights, strategy and policy development, transition planning, and assistance with disclosure and reporting. 

The scope and detail of our support are tailored to fit the size of your organisation and your specific requirements.

 

How we view ESG

At Thrive, there’s no compromise between sustainability and good business.

The two work hand-in-hand. Always. And although ESG may be a framework with criteria, for us it’s not just about ticking boxes.

Instead, we make sure your ESG strategy reflects your values and commercial goals. That it ties in with what customers already know about your brand. And balances reality with ambition.

The result? The kind of authenticity that wins more trust from your customers, investors and employees, whilst ensuring legal compliance. Something fundamental during a time when, quite rightly, there is no room for greenwashing.