Our Impact Strands - Useful Simple Trust

Our Impact Strands

Date: 10/04/24

The methodology used to report on how our work performs against our four Impact Strands.

A methodology to report on positive impact

Our greatest opportunity to contribute to mitigating the climate emergency is through our project work, by supporting and challenging our clients and industry to adopt regenerative design practices. Our four ‘Impact Strands’ demonstrate our commitment to positive transformation of the built environment.

We have developed a methodology to report on how our work performs against these strands, knitting together the projects and services we provide our clients. This demonstrates how, as a collective, we create positive impact.

Work For Good - Impact Strand

Establishing affordable, inclusive, easy to navigate, and welcoming places to live and work, as well as helping organisations to maximise social value where it’s needed most, through creative approaches.

More With Less - Impact Strand

Creating more value with less material by designing out waste and inefficiency as part of wider productivity improvements. We respect existing buildings and components by looking for opportunities for reuse.

Restore + Adapt - Impact Strand

Our regenerative design approach seeks to restore habitats and ecological networks. We design new communities and infrastructure to be resilient in the face of high-emissions global warming scenarios.

Get Set Zero - Impact Strand

Over a decade of experience in carbon baselining, target setting, verification, developing decarbonisation pathways, and action plans for organisations and projects.

Useful Simple Trust Impact Strands

Our ‘Impact Circles’ illustrate how we work across different stages of the development process, ranging from strategic and feasibility work that demonstrates potential impacts (indirect), through to the implementation of projects and programmes that deliver tangible built outcomes (direct).

Learn more in our 2023 Impact Report

Our 2023-24 Impact Report is now available

Our 2023-24 Impact Report focuses on the theme of ‘circularity’.

Launching our 2022-23 Impact Report

A look at how we are working to positively impact the world through our skills, services, and operations.

Our net zero commitment

We are committed to leadership on climate action.

Investors in People: we are GOLD!

An accreditation for organisations that are actively making their workplaces better for their employees.

We are officially a Carbon Literate Organisation

Climate action is an area that unites all Useful Simple Trust brands and is at the heart of our ‘Get Set Zero’ strand.

We are a B Corp

Recognising the Trust's fundamental mission and ethos that was set out over 10 years ago.

We are a Social Enterprise

Our mission is to improve the human environment by delivering useful, simple outcomes that are beautiful and good.

Our Employee Benefit Ethos

Our principles, set out in the Useful Simple Trust Deed