15 | Management Consulting Awards 2025 Best Sustainability-Led Compliance Consultancy 2025 – UK Businesses across the UK are grappling with complex compliance demands alongside growing environmental responsibilities. Warhurst Associates operates at this intersection, a sustainable consultancy delivering multidisciplinary support to clients navigating regulatory challenges. We took a closer look at Warhurst Associates’ considerable contributions below, as the firm is named in the Management Consulting Awards 2025. Based in South Yorkshire, Warhurst Associates is a carbon neutral compliance consultancy firm that specialises in providing compliance support for food safety, ethical, environmental and energy, and health and safety. The firm works with clients of all sizes – though primarily SMEs and startups – in these fields, supporting them as they embark on their compliance journey. Outside of its client engagements, Warhurst Associates also volunteers to work alongside the BRCGS to develop their Food Safety and Ethical Standards as part of the associated working parties and technical committees. This allows the firm to provide input in helping food businesses around the world make safe and legal food. Beyond food compliance, the firm offers a carbon calculator to calculate business greenhouse gas emissions. This calculator has been specifically designed to equip SMEs with a user-friendly tool that provides accurate data. It has been built to the GHG Protocols and against ISO 14064 and PAS 2060 principles to ensure compliance with best practices and data that can be reported as required. Warhurst Associates believes that people are the core of any business and aims to support businesses in the development of their people and operations to ensure that they are equipped to succeed within any field of compliance. To support this belief, the firm strives to deliver the same calibre of service to all clientele, though it tailors its pricing in accordance with the size of each business, as per the Warhurst Associates Sustainability Promise (WASP). Through WASP, the firm offers free support to charities and foodbanks that are run solely by volunteers, including breakfast clubs, village food banks, and luncheon clubs for the elderly or homeless. This initiative, unsupported by grants or external aid, ensures that food safety is maintained whilst reducing food poverty across the country. These operations are guided by Warhurst Associates’ STINGS Pillars, which comprise Support, Train, Innovate, Nature, Governance, and Sustainable. Everything that the firm does must fit within one or more of these pillars, ensuring that its endeavours allow it to achieve its operational goals whilst supporting other businesses in reaching theirs – all without costing the earth. Sustainability is central to Warhurst Associates’ operations, driven by its belief that every business and person has a responsibility to protect the planet. This belief lies at the heart of WASP, which is tightly aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Through this promise, and guided by its STINGS approach, Warhurst Associates aims to be one of the few small consultancy firms in the UK openly measuring and sharing its sustainability credentials. In alignment with the UN SDG, the firm has formed a number of goals geared towards a greener future. These include using 100% renewable energy in its home-based offices by the FY29; becoming a paperless business to reduce impact on woodlands; establishing links to charities and local communities by the end of FY27; becoming B-Corp certified by the end of FY30; and reaching Net Zero by FY40. In addition to working to meet the UN SDG, the firm has also partnered with Tree-Nation to plant a tree for every invoice paid across chosen projects. At no cost to the client, this initiative not only provides boosted employment and training opportunities to communities through the projects and planting alike but also helps to remove carbon emissions in those areas as the trees grow. Through Carbon Footprint initiatives, Warhurst Associates has achieved carbon neutral status within its first year of operations. In July 2023, the firm signed up to the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Action Pledge to reinforce its commitment to becoming climate-ready and resilient to future impact, reducing its carbon emissions, enhancing nature and biodiversity, and helping to promote a fair transition that leaves no-one and nowhere behind. Looking ahead, Warhurst Associates aims to continue its mission for a safer and more sustainable planet, with plans to volunteer as a Climate Ambassador within its local area in the next 12 months to help schools with their climate action plans. From tailored systems and carbon tracking tools to volunteer work and climate pledges, the firm continues to shape a future rooted in equal parts compliance and conscience. This ongoing commitment has earned Warhurst Associates welldeserved recognition as the UK’s Best Sustainability-Led Compliance Consultancy 2025. Contact: Garry Warhurst Company: Warhurst Associates Web Address: www.warhurstassociates.co.uk
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