Our core focus as a firm is to be renowned for caring passionately about our people and our clients, whilst being recognised as a responsible business.
We believe that sustainable success and long-term stability can only be achieved through responsible business practices.
Our actions and our wider strategy are guided by a Responsible Business steering group, made up of stakeholders from across our firm. The group reports directly into our Management and Leadership Boards.
Involving our people
Across our business we have a tremendous amount of collective energy and enthusiasm for responsible business initiatives.
We aim to harness this by involving all our people in the generation of ideas to maximise our positive impact and embed sustainable business practices across everything we do.
A national framework allows us to co-ordinate our actions across our offices, involving people at all levels and creating opportunities for our teams to make a difference to the immediate communities where they live and work.
North Star focus: Social Impact
In June 2025, Saffery launched its social impact strategy, Helping Build Sustainable Futures, which underpins our commitment to creating positive change in the communities where we work.
Staff volunteering allowance
Volunteering with Chapter One
We are beginning to measure the outcomes of these partnerships, with the aim of sharing these impact metrics in our annual Responsible Business Report. Our first baseline measures are volunteer hours and charitable giving.
Read our Responsible Business Report 2024
Sustainability and climate
We recognise our responsibility to minimise environmental impact and have an internal policy which outlines our approach to reducing energy consumption, resource use, and waste. This policy is integrated across our locations through collaboration between our Responsible Business team and Facilities teams. We support a hybrid working model, to enable travel-related emissions. We promote a Cycle to Work scheme, digital-first communication, encourage responsible printing, and use energy-efficient technology.
We currently report Scope 1 and 2 emissions and are expanding our carbon reporting to include additional scopes. The work on this is currently underway, to set an externally declared carbon reduction and net zero target in line with SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative) methodology. Our dedicated Natural Capital and Sustainability & ESG teams work with businesses and organisations to enhance their understanding, actions, and performance in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Our code of conduct
Our Code of Conduct outlines our core shared values, principles and behaviours that underpin everything that we do as a firm, including how we conduct business. We expect all staff and partners to align with our Code of Conduct as part of the firm’s adherence to professional standards, ethics, laws and regulations.