Sustainable ESG takes out Highly Commended Award
Sustainable ESG takes out Highly Commended Award for Outstanding Start Up at the Hunter Business Awards.
The iconic Hunter Business Awards seek to highlight the important contributions businesses make to the local, national and global business communities.
With a host of award categories in place for 2022, the Outstanding Start Up category seeks to recognise start-up business that has effectively driven growth and are able to demonstrate the potential to achieve future success. Entrants were required to demonstrate their commitment over the past 12 months to being an outstanding start-up and describe why their product or service offering is unique within the industry, differentiating the business from its competitors.
Sustainable ESG’s (SESG) application was based on our commitment to support our clients by providing methods for integration of sustainable practice across a business to enable credible and genuine business transformation, creating value for the business and its stakeholders and leading to sustainable economic development.
It was also important for SESG to demonstrate to the judges that we walk the talk and therefore a key feature of our submission was focused on our business strategy, showing how SESG has integrated ESG principles into the strategy to ensure that we are operating a sustainable business right from the very beginning and provide strong foundations upon which we will grow. Our key commitments include:
- aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- creating charity partnerships and donating a percentage of each of the projects that we complete to those charities to address both social and environmental issues
- mapping and measuring our carbon footprint
- becoming a certified carbon neutral company by the end of CY23
- becoming a B-Corp certified company by the end of CY23
- have in place an ISO certified integrated management system by the end of CY23
- creating and making public an ESG scorecard for our first full FY year of operation
Jackie Spiteri, Managing Director at SESG commented:
We were so incredibly honoured and grateful to not only be nominated as a finalist alongside ten other worthy organisations, but then also to walk away with a Highly Commended award. This is great recognition of our commitment to embed sustainability into the core of our business ensuring that we have strong foundations that will best position us to support our clients in their sustainability success.
Business Hunter is the largest regional peak business group in Australia, representing members across all business and industry sectors. Business Hunter is a not-for-profit member organisation dedicated to promoting the interests of business and connecting people in business with what they need to succeed.
Held annually for more than 40 years the Hunter Business Awards program is known for celebrating the achievements and entrepreneurial spirit of the Hunter region’s most inspiring organisations and individuals.