Mr Filbert’s B Corp Certification
“Catherine brought with her great knowledge of what B Corp is all about, and understood the initial challenges we were facing. She provided us with an invaluable insight into our assessment, helped us understand our score, and helped us to develop a strong improvement plan so we were able to submit a robust, comprehensive application. Catherine also provided extra support throughout the review process, when things temporarily got a bit tricky for us!”
Mr Filberts
About Mr Filbert’s
Mr Filbert’s is a Somerset based manufacturing company, producing multi-award-winning nuts and snacks and employing 30+ local people. The senior team wanted to better understand and improve their impact on the environment and those people who depend on the business, and the business depends on. They took on the challenge to gain B Corp certification and prove their high environmental and social performance, accountability and transparency.
Why The Good Crowd?
In early 2023 the Mr Filbert’s team had made a good start completing their Impact assessment, but found themselves needing expert support with interpreting the questions and identifying improvements to reach the 80+ impact point threshold for B Corp certification.
What we did
We supported two specific parts of the B Corp journey.
In April 2023 we ran a fast-paced review of their Impact assessment. The outcome being their current impact score, strengths and opportunities and a proposed action plan to achieve certification. Once this was aligned with all key stakeholders we created a detailed action plan and provided relevant policies and templates. The team then worked on implementing this action plan independently.
The second stage of involvement for us came during the ‘Review’ stage from B Lab, as is often the case there were a few challenges which meant meeting the 80 point threshold was becoming increasingly difficult. Catherine stepped in to review the evidence with the team and advised on how to overcome the challenges in hand.
Mr Filberts successfully certified B Corp in January 2024