Sustainability communications & impact

30 years of communications to protect and improve lives

Since 1996, we’ve worked alongside bold organisations to challenge assumptions, navigate uncertainty and push for progress. The challenges today are different, but no less urgent. This moment calls for communications that mobilise our knowledge, skills and collective determination to shape a fairer, more sustainable future.

We launched The Forgiveness Project. a powerful new charity to explore the complexity of forgiveness. More than 20 years later it’s still reaching global audiences.

Our work on Fairtrade Fortnight in 2006-8 helped drive sustained growth in consumer awareness, retailer participation and support for Fairtrade. UK sales of products rose 72% in 2007.

We ensured stories from the survivors and bereaved were told accurately and on their own terms for Grenfell Testimony Week.

We created Age UK’s first integrated campaign raising £800,000 in the first year, and secured £20m in Government investment. It remains their core winter platform 16 years later.

We delivered the UK’s first national mental health anti-stigma campaign Mind Out for Mental Health. Our resources reached over 3 million people and helped train hundreds of journalists and practitioners.

We partnered with Helpforce for six years, beginning with their launch strategy and first major campaign. Our partnership helped to generate 33,000 NHS volunteers and secured more than 30 NHS partners.

We created Seeing is Believing for Standard Chartered’s 150th anniversary. It went on to run for 17 years and funded over 200 global eye health projects.

We helped Penguin Random House use their Lit in Colour campaign to challenge schools and exam boards to teach more books by writers of colour. Over half of all secondary schools in England went on to apply for free books and resources, and over 255k books were donated.

We have partnered with Patagonia since 2019 to deliver campaigns to UK audiences. Highlights include announcing earth as the only shareholder, campaigning against Icelandic salmon farms, championing grassroots campaigners and fighting for protection of wild rivers.

We launched Selfridges’ transformational Project Earth initiative. 45% of Selfridges transactions now come from circular products and services.

We helped shift wind energy into the cultural mainstream, building public endorsement with high profile figures and giving voice to the silent majority of supporters.

With less than 24 hours’ notice, we became NHS Charities Together’s communications team and helped raise over £150m during the pandemic.

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Over the last year we have reduced our scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions by 25%

We are working with the charity sector to accelerate climate action and last year spent 162 hours volunteering and on pro-bono support

We’re invested in our team: 100% of colleagues feel they are given flexible working to meet their individual needs and 90% have had a clear conversation with their line manager about the future of their career in the last six months

75% reduction in CO2 from travel due to decreased client requirement for international travel

Did you know that everyone in our team can gain an up to three days extra holiday a year by walking or cycling to work?

We changed our biggest supplier because they would not make a meaningful carbon reduction commitment

100% employees feel able to share information and new ideas & their opinions are valued and 95% feel able to be themselves

100% employees feel able to share information and new ideas & their opinions are valued and 100% feel able to be themselves

170 attendees welcomed to our hosted events, creating spaces for meaningful dialogue and collective action3% reduction in office waste, showing the new system and training is continuing to have a small but important effect

33% of the businesses we work with have nature targets in place

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In January 2020, we launched our Climate Positive Plan. We were the first communications agency to recognise our opportunity to drive change in partnership with our employees, clients, suppliers and wider community, and have spent the last three years delivering against ambitious objectives.

Our current climate action plan Taking it Personally goes even further. Launched in 2023, we’re putting people at the heart of planetary protection and regeneration.

Along with our annual Impact and Client Disclosure Reports, we have published Taking it Personally to encourage action from others and will continue to report on it each year.

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By March 2026 our ambition is to deliver a net gain across three core areas:

Climate

Reducing our emissions and those across our value chain.

Nature

Replenishing nature beyond the damage we cause and amplifying its benefits to those most impacted by the climate crisis.

People

Increasing fair pay for all within and beyond our supply chain, in recognition of the need to build an economy that benefits everyone.

10 YEARS A B CORP

As a B Corp, we’re verified by B Lab to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. We’re incredibly proud to have been recertified with a score of 131.1 – putting us in the top 3% of B Corps in the UK.

So how did we do it and what have we learnt?

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“Sustainability is deeply embedded in the DNA of Foster Communications.”

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