SKOOT
Surrey, United Kingdom
January 2022
Mobile applications
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
United Kingdom
SKOOT was originally an idea that co-founder, Greg Gormley had when his daughter, Amelia didn’t come home one night. She had spent the night giving friends lifts. This led him to want to help solve the mobility issue faced by young people. He connected with Mark Stringer and they joined forces to create a carbon-negative carpooling app. However, along that journey it became apparent that the biggest issue they needed to focus on was eliminating the carbon emissions from driving. On the journey, the need for a solution for businesses, communities, and individuals to be able to offset and remove their carbon footprint became even more apparent and hence the SKOOT climate platform was born. Offering a range of simple solutions to a complex problem we help identify your carbon footprint, provide quality climate solutions to carbon offset and supply unique tools to avoid carbon emissions. Working with world-renowned NGO’s we plant trees that are protected, and cared for and two of the biggest and most established companies to provide Verified Carbon Credits. Our patented green navigation and carpooling App, SKOOT Ride, has helped plant over 230k trees to date, with over 350,000 green miles driven, by 27,000 SKOOTers.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 20.0
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Governance 20.0
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 34.6
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 15.6
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 18.5
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Customers 3.3
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.