A growing number of businesses are backing a change to UK company law as B Lab UK announces there are now 3,000 members of the Better Business Act coalition, marking a tenfold increase since the campaign’s launch in 2021.
Yesterday, the government pulled the Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill, a decision explained in a letter from the Minister for Small Businesses and Economic Transformation to the Business and Trade Committee. It’s a disappointing decision, but not the end of the road for corporate governance reform. The letter cites a number of factors behind […]
More than 150 business leaders gathered in Parliament to mark Better Business Day 2025, celebrating the UK’s growing movement of future-fit businesses showing that purpose-led decisions create profit and benefit society.
What if every business in the UK was purpose-driven?
In partnership with leading think tank @Demos, B Lab UK has launched The Purpose Dividend — an exploration into the potential for purpose-led business to drive the UK’s economic recovery.
With Thames Water on the brink of collapse and sewage scandals breaking across all parts of the UK, serious intervention was needed from the new government. And that’s exactly what we’ve seen from Steve Reed, the new Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Within his first week in the role, he has […]
Now that polling day has passed and a Labour government has been elected, we reflect on some of the promises the party made in its manifesto and ask the important question: where do these commitments leave British businesses and the role they can play in creating the future we need?
New research released today reveals that over three quarters of the UK public (76%) believe that, more than ever before, the law needs to change to give businesses a legal responsibility to prioritise people and the planet alongside making a profit. UK law currently requires firms to operate under a legal regime of shareholder […]