About us

Responsible Business.

At Foot Anstey, we are committed to being a responsible business.

Passionately responsible

Being responsible isn’t just the right thing to do – it’s smart business. It helps us reduce business risks, attract and retain top talent, build client relationships based on shared values, and create sustainable growth.

From investing at least 1% of net profits annually into our responsible business programme, to setting science-based environmental targets, we’re committed to making a real difference.

Our approach

Our approach to creating positive social impact is defined by our refreshingly human and collaborative values. By centring on five impact areas, as identified by our materiality matrix, we have developed a focused action plan so that we can progress change as a business and as individuals. Working in partnership with our people, our clients, our suppliers, and local partners, we are taking bold steps towards a sustainable and inclusive future.

Informed by insight

To ensure our responsible business strategy addresses our most significant risks, opportunities and impacts, we undertook a double materiality assessment. Double materiality assessments help organisations identify and prioritise the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues that affect, and are affected by, their operations.

The findings from our assessment helped us identify our five core impact areas.

Our impact areas

Our five impact areas guide our approach in achieving sustainable and inclusive progress in everything we do. Click each impact area to read more about our ambitions and activities to date.

Our ambition

To be a well-run, responsible, commercial business committed to excellence and integrity in all that we do.

What we’re working on

We’re making sure our policies and processes meet the highest standards, holding ourselves to account through benchmarking our progress.

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Our ambition

To develop client relationships built on shared values which have a positive impact on our environment and society.

What we’re working on

We’re working with like-minded clients to find solutions to the significant challenges they face and helping them to achieve their responsible business goals in the process.

Our ambition

Practice robust environmental management and achieve net zero before 2050, and zero waste to landfill.

What we’re working on

We are setting stretching targets, educating our people and becoming a more efficient business, taking conscious steps to tread lightly as we grow.

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Our ambition

Drive social mobility and fuel the ambitions of young people in our communities.

What we’re working on

We aim to make a measurable difference to the lives of young people in the communities we serve through meaningful, long-term strategic partnerships and the passion of our people.

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Our ambition

Attract, retain and progress the diverse pool of available talent and provide the support to fuel their careers at the firm.

What we’re working on

We are weaving responsible business through the fabric of our people agenda to provide what our people need, to enjoy the best of work and life. From clear expectations and high-quality work to fertility benefits and hybrid working.

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The importance of being a responsible business

Being a more responsible business is critical to helping us realise our ambitions. This is why it’s a core pillar of our growth strategy and why we’re investing at least 1% of our net profits into building a programme that delivers for our people, our environment, our communities, our clients and our business.

Martin Hirst Managing Partner

We’re an ambitious business, and we’re channelling that ambition into our responsible business programme. Our long-term strategy and action plan are designed to drive real change — from addressing social mobility and nurturing the next generation of talent, to making bold and measurable commitments on environmental performance.

Bola Gibson Executive Director, Responsible Business

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