Promote Social Sustainability with FuturePlus

Vala Capital

Vala provides early stage finance to companies that have potential to achieve scale quickly, investing in various industries, they have  a special interest in funding innovation that could make a big difference to sustainability challenges.

FuturePlus works closely with Vala Capital and its portfolio companies, conducting due diligence on potential investees, measuring the sustainability development of their investments through the deployment of the FuturePlus platform, advising the Sustainability Board and collaborating on the organisation’s ESG strategy.

Incorporating FuturePlus into the internal reporting processes, Vala believes they can effectively measure and monitor the sustainability of their portfolio companies to share consistent reporting metrics that provide value to all parties.

Grind Coffee 

Today, Grind makes more than two million cups of coffee a year across its London cafés, and twelve million more are made at home and elsewhere. That's one every three seconds.

FuturePlus’ work with Grind Coffee has ranged from helping to set up Grind’s charitable foundation, Better Coffee Foundation, to co-ordinating an LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) for its iconic compostable coffee pods. An LCA analyses the environmental impact (and increasingly the economic and social impact) at every stage of a product’s life cycle – from raw material extraction (“cradle”), manufacturing and processing, transportation, use, and retail, through to waste disposal, reuse, or recycling (“grave”)

The England and Wales Cricket Board

The ECB is the national governing body for all cricket in England and Wales, supporting the game at every level – from grassroots to elite level. 

The ECB is on an ongoing journey to further its Environmental, Social and Governance commitments across environmental sustainability; equity, diversity & inclusion; social impact; and good governance and has been working with FuturePlus to pilot a programme to understand the collective impact of the ECB and its key suppliers and stakeholders across these areas. 

Its long-term ambition is to be able to track and monitor its broader impact using the same metrics as all of its suppliers, no matter their size, sector or geography. By communicating joint rather than individual sustainability and social impact using standardised metrics, the ECB will be able to demonstrate to its passionate supporter base the power of collaboration as an impact-driven, future-thinking group of companies.