LettUs Grow is a Certified B Corporation - read our 2021 Impact Report
LettUs Grow is a Certified B Corporation - read our 2021 Impact Report
We’ve recently hit one of our biggest milestones as a company: something we’ve wanted and have been working towards since day one. Our big news is that following 18 months of assessment and review, LettUs Grow is now a Certified B Corporation!
For those of you who don’t know, B Corp is a certification to say that a company’s way of doing business treats triple-bottom-line thinking seriously. Through its certification program, B Corp aims to hold businesses to account on social and environmental performance, transparency, and legal accountability.
When our Head of Operations, Cherry Sinclair, headed up the B Corp team, she was pleased to find that she wasn’t going to have to start from scratch on the project. “Considering the founders were so young when they started the company,” she said, “it’s amazing that they had the foresight to both know that they wanted to become a B Corp and to lay the foundations into their articles of incorporation. It was those early decisions that set us up for success.”
None of this is to say that B Corp is perfect. The issues that have been raised this year about the legitimacy of B Corp have not passed us by. But our co-founder and CEO hit the nail on the head when he commented on the debate: “We believe that nothing should be beyond criticism - that’s how we learn, improve and hold ourselves accountable. We also believe it’s important to have certifications that provide companies with a standard to aim for and demand transparency for consumers.”
Achieving this long held goal has given us the opportunity to reflect on what has gotten us to this stage, and has opened our eyes to some of the areas that we can still improve upon. And it’s through this lens that we put together our 2021 impact report. Last year, we laid the groundwork for investigations; this year we’ve aimed to build upon that. Each time the process of writing the report brings up more questions than it answers - and we’re already looking at what information we can begin uncovering ready for this time next year.
We’re so grateful to have you - our customers, team members, partners and supporters - on this journey of discovery with us. Thank you for all your support and inspiring questions over the past year. We hope this report answers some of them and that you find it as interesting to read as we found it to write.