Sustainability reports have a lot to do. They need to communicate detailed information to a range of audiences – including investors, regulators, employees and local communities – while providing a clear and engaging picture of an organisation’s progress.
But that doesn’t mean they need to be boring. Through competitor benchmarking and report structure consulting, we establish creative thinking before the design phase begins. Helping to promote compliance through framework-aligned structure guidance and high-level gap analysis, we work with your teams to find the correct content, before bringing the report to life through thoughtful content, intelligent design and moments of creativity.
We have over a decade of experience of working collaboratively to transform content and data into compelling sustainability reports.
And, we support you every step of the way. After an in-depth planning and strategy phase, we create innovative initial concepts, help with copywriting and editing, design, proofreading, data visualisation, digital solutions, printing and promotion bringing everything together to create stunning final deliverables that work beautifully across platforms.
Whether printed, digital or a hybrid of both, together we create reports with impact.
Our ESG specialists work to uncover your underlying business needs, comparing your competitor’s disclosures, advising on the report’s structure based on your chosen framework, and undertaking a gap analysis on your reporting and communications.
Next, our copywriters and content editors work with your teams to understand your current position, uncover the messages that need to stand out, and find creative and compelling ways to tell your sustainability story.
This can be as in-depth as you need, from simple proofreading to creating all editorial content, including planning and stakeholder interviews.
By shaping the narrative and structure, we help guide your reader on a journey, so they can find what matters and see the stories behind your disclosures.
Then our designers bring it to life. Working within your brand guidelines, we push the boundaries to develop a visual language for the report.
This communication system includes creating a sustainability sub-brand, if needed, along with layouts, graphs, infographics, diagrams, and imagery that make your information beautiful and representative of your brand.
For those looking for something more digital, our web developers will create bespoke online experiences that give audiences new ways to discover your content.
This includes accessible PDFs, microsites including hosting and maintenance, interactive reports and motion graphics. And once the report is ready to share, our marketing team can help promote your report through social media, email, blog articles and other internal and external campaign assets.
A full-service approach from a full-service design agency.
Our ESG specialists work to uncover your underlying business needs, comparing your competitor’s disclosures, advising on the report’s structure based on your chosen framework, and undertaking a gap analysis on your reporting and communications.
Next, our copywriters and content editors work with your teams to understand your current position, uncover the messages that need to stand out, and find creative and compelling ways to tell your sustainability story.
This can be as in-depth as you need, from simple proofreading to creating all editorial content, including planning and stakeholder interviews.
By shaping the narrative and structure, we help guide your reader on a journey, so they can find what matters and see the stories behind your disclosures.
Then our designers bring it to life. Working within your brand guidelines, we push the boundaries to develop a visual language for the report.
This communication system includes creating a sustainability sub-brand, if needed, along with layouts, graphs, infographics, diagrams, and imagery that make your information beautiful and representative of your brand.
For those looking for something more digital, our web developers will create bespoke online experiences that give audiences new ways to discover your content.
This includes accessible PDFs, microsites including hosting and maintenance, interactive reports and motion graphics. And once the report is ready to share, our marketing team can help promote your report through social media, email, blog articles and other internal and external campaign assets.
The earlier we can get involved, the more opportunity there is to think creatively about how your content comes together.
Bringing us in before everything is finalised allows content, structure and design to develop alongside each other. But if your words and data are already complete, that’s fine too – we can take your supplied material and turn it into a clear, engaging and beautifully designed report.
Absolutely. We can get involved before the design process begins, helping you plan your report, benchmark against competitors and establish a clear structure that works for your content and audiences.
Working alongside your sustainability team, we can help identify gaps in the supplied content, shape the narrative and find creative ways to communicate complex information.
Yes. Our copywriters and content editors can work alongside your team to structure, edit and refine supplied content, identify key messages and create a clear narrative throughout the report.
We can also proofread the finished document, helping make sure the details are as considered as the design.
Absolutely. Sometimes the clearest way to tell a story isn’t with another paragraph.
We can turn supplied data into graphs, diagrams, charts and infographics that make complex information easier to understand, while creating opportunities for engaging visual storytelling throughout the report.
Yes. We create sustainability reports in a range of formats, including interactive PDFs, dedicated web pages and microsites, as well as traditional printed reports.
We can also create experiences that work across different formats, giving you more ways to bring your sustainability story to life and allowing audiences to explore your content in the way that works for them.
Yes. We can design and produce accessible sustainability reports, helping make your content easier to navigate, read and understand for a wider audience.
From clear layouts and readable typography to accessible PDFs with appropriate document structure, alternative text and navigation, we consider accessibility throughout the design and production process.
If your question’s not answered here, please email us and we’ll get back to you.
With changes in UK law making the disclosure of climate-related financial information mandatory for the largest companies, it seems inevitable that sustainability reporting will become a legal requirement for all in the future.
So we’ve put together this guide that covers the basics.
Our guides have been written to help busy marketers, C-suite executives and business owners to understand the essentials of the important documents that make a brand successful. We talk you through the entire design process from planning to production.
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