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We’ve become part of a driving force for a better future. B Corp status means we’ve got the official stamp of approval for our collective efforts to look after our people, communities and the planet.
Chris Davies, CEO
I am very proud to say we are now B Corp certified. But this is just the start. There’s so much more we can do, and we’re determined to do it. We will keep making buildings more and more sustainable. Keep teaming up with like-minded ethical partners who inspire us. Keep doing more for the people who work here, while doing the same for those working from here.
Working with you, our clients, our suppliers and other providers to create an industry where people, planet and profit are treated with equal respect. We can achieve so much when we work together on purpose.
What is B Corp?
It’s a global network of over 6,000 companies that have truly committed to doing good while doing business. And now we’re proud to be one of them. Really proud.
The ultimate ambition is big: to reduce inequality and poverty around the world, create a more sustainable environment and build stronger communities. That’s a huge aim, and no single business can do that alone. But together, we’re way more powerful.
Becoming B Corp means we’re pushing to meet the highest standards of social and environmental impact in everything we do. Leading by example and encouraging others to make vital changes to how they operate.
It’s a global network of over 6,000 companies that have truly committed to doing good while doing business. And now we’re proud to be one of them. Really proud.
The ultimate ambition is big: to reduce inequality and poverty around the world, create a more sustainable environment and build stronger communities. That’s a huge aim, and no single business can do that alone. But together, we’re way more powerful.
Becoming B Corp means we’re pushing to meet the highest standards of social and environmental impact in everything we do. Leading by example and encouraging others to make vital changes to how they operate.
What does it mean to you?
You might want a reassurance that Uncommon has a mission you can believe in. B Corp status is the perfect way to explain how committed we are and give clear evidence of how hard we’re working.
And if you are trying to become B Corp yourselves, having another B Corp as your landlord or business partner will really help you on that journey. So we really hope that you’ll join us.
When we all feed off a shared optimism, our impact will rocket. We can achieve so much when we work together on purpose.
You might want a reassurance that Uncommon has a mission you can believe in. B Corp status is the perfect way to explain how committed we are and give clear evidence of how hard we’re working.
And if you are trying to become B Corp yourselves, having another B Corp as your landlord or business partner will really help you on that journey. So we really hope that you’ll join us.
When we all feed off a shared optimism, our impact will rocket. We can achieve so much when we work together on purpose.
What’s next?
This is just the start. There’s so much more we can do, and we’re determined to do it.
There’s a new assessment every three years, and between now and then, it’s all about continuous improvement. The higher we set our own standards here at Uncommon, the more influential we can be in the wider industry.
Because it’s time for collaboration, not competition. Together we can go further, changing this industry for the better.
This is just the start. There’s so much more we can do, and we’re determined to do it.
There’s a new assessment every three years, and between now and then, it’s all about continuous improvement. The higher we set our own standards here at Uncommon, the more influential we can be in the wider industry.
Because it’s time for collaboration, not competition. Together we can go further, changing this industry for the better.
B Impact Score
We’ve made a fantastic start with 98.2. It reflects all the hard work we’re doing at Uncommon. But we’re not stopping here. This will always be a work-in-progress. We want to get better and better, and we’ll never stop pushing.
Governance
Workers
Community
Environment
Customers
How our company is managed and structured, and how much we prioritise social and environmental responsibility in our mission and decision-making.
Score: 18.5
How we look after our team, including financial security, health and safety, wellness, career development, and engagement and satisfaction.
Score: 29.7
How we impact and engage with the communities we’re a part of, hiring and sourcing locally, with a strong emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Score: 15.2
Our environmental management practices and how they impact air, climate, water, land and biodiversity. We’ve really excelled here, which is hugely important. As part of the real estate industry, it’s vital we do as much as we can because the opportunity for change is so big.
Score: 32.3
How we build relationships with customers through the quality of what we offer, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and opportunities to give feedback.
Score: 2.3
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Get in touch with our team to discuss your workspace requirements or find out more about our offering.
The barriers men face when talking about their health
How we can encourage more male Wellbeing Champions
How to support someone facing a challenge
We are delighted to be joined by:
Rachel Geliamassi, MD of Stagecoach
Javed Bobat, men’s health champion
Paul Robertson, author and speaker on OCD
This is our inaugural meeting of this network, an open forum for HR managers, Mental Health First Aiders and Wellbeing Champions. Please pass these details on to anyone else you feel would be interested!
“Where and how we facilitate workshops is changing. Because we want to avert the climate emergency. Because right now the cost of transporting entire teams to be co-located is sky-rocketing. Because our organisations have shifted to support remote and hybrid ways of working.
It’s time to find ways to use the technology we have and learn the skills to collaborate brilliantly online.
Our Remote Workshop Workshop will introduce you to multiple digital environments and teach you how to apply creativity and design thinking tools in a virtual space. We’ll also show you how to create and maintain energy and focus, along with techniques for managing challenging participants, which takes a markedly different form, to when you facilitate in person.
The workshop itself will be remote so you will get the chance to experience a remote workshop as a participant and then reflect on it as a facilitator.”
Discount for Uncommon members | Limited Spaces Available | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon members perks page
Business is a challenging place to be, but with challenge comes opportunity!
Join us to discuss the future of leadership; it’s challenges, it’s opportunities and the key points to consider when creating our strategy and assisting our future leaders.
We will pose questions to our panel of experts from attendees and our network, as well as suggesting key next steps for an organisation and its leaders to take to build a resilient and thriving business.
In this talk Nicky and Sharon will discuss the current stress epidemic and how, despite the reset of the pandemic we are still stuck in a constant cycle of striving and surviving. We have an opportunity to create a better experience for us as humans and in turn create a better planet, but how do we create lasting change that benefits us all?
Learn how to:
Know when you are on purpose and in flow
Sustain your energy
Create change the easy way
Have more time
Have more peace
Attendees will walk away with a plan to create their own version of a perfect life, and a host of practical techniques for stress busting.
This event will be recorded and a reply emailed to those who register.
Free for Uncommon members
Build an online High-Fee Coaching Business from the heart
An inspiring evening of keynotes and presentations to highlight some of Impact Central’s start-up success stories.
About this event
We are delighted to host you at the Impact Central Summer Showcase in King’s Cross!
There will be no livestream and tickets are limited, so be quick.
An inspirational evening of special guests and presentations from Cohort 9 – balancing profits with purpose 💼 🌍 👍
Join us at 6:30pm for a quick drink and some food, then head upstairs where we will kick off at 7pm sharp. There will be further opportunity to network after the formal programme ends at 8:30pm.
There will be food, merriment and thought-provoking discussion as we cheer on our latest cohort of startups. 🙌
Inspiring keynotes
Lightning presentations from new ventures
A few surprises
Impact Centralis an accelerator and mentor network which supports founders committed to creating businesses that rebuild our society and environment. And we want to use this showcase show you some great examples!
For a business to thrive, its people must thrive – so how can we make this happen as the world starts to recover?
Join Nicky Marshall and Sharon Critchlow as they share their thoughts on this powerful subject, as well as a framework to create resilient, flexible, cohesive and happy teams.
They will focus on three areas: Mindset, Culture and Wellbeing
Learn techniques, strategies and coaching techniques to help your teams today.
The bright lights, late nights and constant hustle of our modern world have detached us from the way we, as humans, are supposed to live, connect and thrive.
In his first book, Be More Human, Natural Lifestyle Coach Tony Riddle explores the importance of reconnecting with our natural state, helping us to learn how to meet our true needs and live more naturally.
Most of us do not sit, breathe, eat, sleep or move as nature intended and so we’re actively going against our biology.
And in this online event author Tony will show us how to become more human in practice, sharing advice on 5 key areas of everyday living:
Anyone, whatever their age, gender, culture or abilities, can find themselves disconnected from others and feeling lonely.
If you feel lonely, you are lonely. And you are not alone.
The good news? There’s LOTS you can do to remedy this.
In this worksop with self-help teacher and mindfulness practitioner, Gill Hasson, you’ll learn practical strategies for countering loneliness, making friends, connecting with and enjoying the company of other people, feeling understood and also that sense of belonging that we all crave.
Using research and tips from her own life and her book, Lonely Less, Gill will share advice on how to:
Meet new people and make friends
Manage Time alone
Keep connected when working from home
Support others who may be struggling with feelings of loneliness
When we act and respond in a more emotionally intelligent way, we create empathy with others, improve our communication and over time, understand more about who we are.
In this workshop we will share:
Emotional intelligence: Self-awareness as a pathway to success
Empathy v sympathy
Team talk and influencing others
This workshop is perfect for anyone wanting to improve their relationships, for leaders who want to improve their skills and anyone who wants to learn more about their own behaviours.
1:1 sessions: How you to grow your startup leanly, from getting it off the ground in the first place to reducing costs & increasing revenue
About this event
Discover how you to grow your startup leanly, from getting it off the ground in the first place through to reducing costs & increasing revenue.
Back by popular demand, these 1 hour online 1:1 individual sessions give you the opportunity to talk about your startup specifically and get tailored guidance and advice.
Areas such as:
– How to take your idea and turn it in to a business
– Getting your startup off the ground
– Moving your startup forwards in an affordable way
Do you have a wellbeing strategy that needs a revisit?
Would you like some fresh ideas and a different approach?
To date we have had the absolute pleasure of working with over 4000 employees across a variety of organisations and to work with amazing HR Professionals passionate about improving the working lives of individuals.
Join us for this inspiring session, network with fellow professionals and leave feeling inspired!
This workshop is delivered as 2 x 2-hour sessions:
Session One runs on May 5th from 10.00am – 12.00pm
Session Two runs on May 5th from 14:00pm – 16.00pm
Collaboration is business critical; successful collaboration leads to better quality, more original outputs, improved productivity and people enjoying their work. But just when we need it most, collaboration has taken a real hit. The trust and connection on which it depends doesn’t come as naturally when we’re on video calls all day or having to navigate a hybrid format. Now that hybrid working is here to stay, companies need to find new and effective ways to collaborate.
You’ll come away with:
– An understanding of how hybrid collaboration works
– A model for creating and facilitating collaborations that support your specific goals
– An understanding of how to make the technology work for you rather than getting in your way
– Exercises, tools and techniques to improve your team’s productivity and performance
– The skills to optimise hybrid collaboration by encouraging and managing behaviours
– Curve’s Collaboration Canvas to help you design your ways of working
– An output document that captures all of the learnings for you to share with your team
Discount for Uncommon members | Limited Spaces Available | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon members perks page
Your energy is everything: it is the fuel that drives your success and it gives you the power to achieve your potential. So how can you be your best self if you’re always tired, stressed and burnt out?
In his new book, Energize (out Apr 21) life coach and motivational speaker Simon Alexander Ong introduces us to the art and science of energy management.
In a world where we are always on, Ong urges us to work with our natural energy resources to recognise our most energised state – when to push and when to recoup – so that we can work sustainably towards our biggest goals.
And in this workshop Simon will:
share the practical framework he uses with his clients to identify your most productive phases of the day, week and year, and how to make the most of them
teach you how to create boundaries and devote your energy in the right way and to the right people
introduce you to simple practices that you can build into your day to revitalise and preserve your energy levels so that you are ready for anything
Engage our members on climate
Target: We will actively engage all our members on climate action by 2023
Support our members to embed sustainability
Target: We will provide our members with the knowledge and tools to help them reduce their impact and embed sustainability within their practices by 2023
Set new member standards
Target: We will develop a member guide, setting standards across our workspaces for sustainability by 2023
Increase diversity in our business
Target: We will measure, set targets for and report on diversity across our business – considering gender, race, religion, LGBTQI+ and disability – by 2023
Provide opportunities for our employees
Target: 70% of our workforce will complete relevant, personalised, and career-enhancing training provided by Uncommon by 2023
Support the health and wellbeing of our people
Target: We will provide all of our employees with access to individualised and personally relevant programme to support mental, physical and financial wellbeing by 2023
Set new supplier standards
Target: Develop a supplier code of conduct by the end of 2022
Actively engage our suppliers
Target: Engage all our suppliers on key topics – notably climate, wages and diversity – in line with our code of conduct by 2023
Ensure compliance with our standards
Target: Ensure all our suppliers comply with our code of conduct by 2025
Improve building efficiency
Target: All our buildings will achieve an EPC rating of B or above by 2027
Provide members with low-carbon options
Target: Offer our members carbon neutral desks across all our buildings by 2027
Source and use better materials
Target: Develop a criteria for sourcing more sustainable and circular products across our business by 2023
Reduce our emissions
Target: Reduce our absolute emissions in line with science, aiming for an 80% reduction by 2025
Achieve net zero
Target: Be a net zero business across scope 1, 2 and ket scope 3 categories by 2027
Be carbon negative
Target: We will be a carbon negative business, removing more emissions than we have released through our operations from when we were founded to today, and for all future years by 2023
An empowering workshop with financial expert and author of The Money Edit, Makala Green
About this event
Makala Green is a highly successful financial expert, motivational speaker and wealth coach who worked her way up from a cashier position at 16 to becoming the UK’s first Black Female Chartered Financial Planner with an extraordinary record of success.
She has transformed lives and businesses, working with entrepreneurs, sportspeople, professionals and multi-million-pound companies, and knows how empowering it is to be in control of your finances.
Makala understands how managing your money can change everything for the better and in this workshop she will reveal some of her strategies for creating a strong, stable and future-proof money mindset, whatever your current financial position.
Attendees will discover a new way of looking at money, giving them the financial confidence they need to achieve their highest aspirations.
An inspiring evening of keynotes and presentations to highlight some of Impact Central’s start-up success stories.
About this event
“We are delighted to host you at the Impact Central Spring Showcase. Another exciting and inspiring evening all about start ups balancing profits with purpose
This fun event is an opportunity for the Impact Central Community to celebrate the Impact-Driven businesses who have completed the teaching element of the Impact Central Accelerator Programme.
It’s an opportunity to bring people together to celebrate emerging businesses who are solving social and environmental problems.
Inspiring keynotes
Lightning presentations from new ventures
Registration is free! Join us for ‘after work drinks’ at our showcase and hear from inspiring entrepreneurs about their businesses, and hear how you can be involved.
Impact Centralis an accelerator and mentor network which supports founders committed to creating businesses that rebuild our society and environment. And we want to use this showcase show you some great examples!
Register for your place now with location and further details to be announced in due course.”
Collaboration is business critical; successful collaboration leads to better quality, more original outputs, improved productivity and people enjoying their work. But just when we need it most, collaboration has taken a real hit. The trust and connection on which it depends doesn’t come as naturally when we’re on video calls all day or having to navigate a hybrid format. Now that hybrid working is here to stay, companies need to find new and effective ways to collaborate.
You’ll come away with:
– An understanding of how hybrid collaboration works
– A model for creating and facilitating collaborations that support your specific goals
– An understanding of how to make the technology work for you rather than getting in your way
– Exercises, tools and techniques to improve your team’s productivity and performance
– The skills to optimise hybrid collaboration by encouraging and managing behaviours
– Curve’s Collaboration Canvas to help you design your ways of working
– An output document that captures all of the learnings for you to share with your team
Discount for Uncommon members | Limited Spaces Available | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon members perks page
1:1 sessions: How you to grow your startup leanly, from getting it off the ground in the first place to reducing costs & increasing revenue
About this event
Discover how you to grow your startup leanly, from getting it off the ground in the first place through to reducing costs & increasing revenue.
Back by popular demand, these 1 hour online 1:1 individual sessions give you the opportunity to talk about your startup specifically and get tailored guidance and advice.
Areas such as:
– How to take your idea and turn it in to a business
– Getting your startup off the ground
– Moving your startup forwards in an affordable way
– Growing your business leanly
– Generating revenue streams or increasing them
– Scaling up!
Don’t miss out book in today!
Free for Uncommon members
STARTUP, SCALE UP OR OPERATIONS ADVICE – 1:1 SESSIONS
Did you know more than half the population sleep poorly?
Sleep is responsible not only for our health but also our mood and our performance. In this workshop we will share important sleep facts, as well as tips and techniques to improve your sleep, including:
Routines to ensure you have good sleep
The REST method
This workshop provides inspiration and that you can use yourself and to share with your team and family.
1:1 sessions: How you to grow your startup leanly, from getting it off the ground in the first place to reducing costs & increasing revenue
About this event
Discover how you to grow your startup leanly, from getting it off the ground in the first place through to reducing costs & increasing revenue.
Back by popular demand, these 1 hour online 1:1 individual sessions give you the opportunity to talk about your startup specifically and get tailored guidance and advice.
Areas such as:
– How to take your idea and turn it in to a business
– Getting your startup off the ground
– Moving your startup forwards in an affordable way
Join SL Martin and Gordon Eichhorst in discussion with special guests for a discussion on founder life with relatable and insightful content.
Impact Central is an accelerator and mentor network which supports founders committed to creating businesses that rebuild our society and environment. And we want to use this showcase show you some great examples!
Have you written resolutions and broken them all by lunchtime on Jan 1st?
Perhaps you enjoy vision board workshops but get distracted by June?
This workshop will not only give you a plan, but the tools and habit forming techniques to ensure your 2022 starts with a bounce and continues to flourish.
Collaboration is business critical; successful collaboration leads to better quality, more original outputs, improved productivity and people enjoying their work. But just when we need it most, collaboration has taken a real hit. The trust and connection on which it depends doesn’t come as naturally when we’re on video calls all day or having to navigate a hybrid format. Now that hybrid working is here to stay, companies need to find new and effective ways to collaborate.
You’ll come away with:
– An understanding of how hybrid collaboration works
– A model for creating and facilitating collaborations that support your specific goals
– An understanding of how to make the technology work for you rather than getting in your way
– Exercises, tools and techniques to improve your team’s productivity and performance
– The skills to optimise hybrid collaboration by encouraging and managing behaviours
– Curve’s Collaboration Canvas to help you design your ways of working
– An output document that captures all of the learnings for you to share with your team
Discount for Uncommon members | Limited Spaces Available | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon members perks page
Have you written resolutions and broken them all by lunchtime on Jan 1st?
Perhaps you enjoy vision board workshops but get distracted by June?
This workshop will not only give you a plan, but the tools and habit forming techniques to ensure your 2022 starts with a bounce and continues to flourish.
Discount for Uncommon members
WELLNESS IN THE WORKPLACE: ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE AND VALUES
1:1 sessions: How you to grow your startup leanly, from getting it off the ground in the first place to reducing costs & increasing revenue
About this event
Discover how you to grow your startup leanly, from getting it off the ground in the first place through to reducing costs & increasing revenue.
Back by popular demand, these 1 hour 1:1 individual sessions give you the opportunity to talk about your startup specifically and get tailored guidance and advice.
Areas such as:
– How to take your idea and turn it in to a business
– Getting your startup off the ground
– Moving your startup forwards in an affordable way
In this workshop, Rosie Davies-Smith, founder of PR Dispatch, will show you how to build a well-thought-out influencer strategy. From establishing your objectives to ways to build meaningful relationships with influencers.
OUR SPEAKER, ROSIE DAVIES-SMITH
Rosie Davies-Smith is the founder of PR Dispatch – the UK’s first affordable PR membership platform dedicated to supporting product-based businesses in doing their own PR and gaining magazine coverage themselves. Their membership offering also includes an Influencer Membership where they teach businesses how to work with influencers.
Discounted for Uncommon Members | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon member perks page | Ladies only event
Susan Laurie uses her own experience to help people become more mindful about alcohol and drinking. She is not anti alcohol, but wants others to be aware of the things that she wishes she had known. Following university Susan had a successful career in marketing in the pharmaceutical industry and was then an entrepreneur with her own company, before succumbing to a serious drinking problem. This escalated to a life-threatening situation, despite many attempts at familiar interventions including counselling, rehab and Alcoholics Anonymous. After her recovery, she wrote the book ‘From Rock Bottom To Sober Forever’, which has provided inspiration and hope to thousands of people and has been praised for the exceptional account of the stealth-like progression of alcohol addiction, and she uses her unique experience to help people avoid alcohol becoming problematic.
Discounted for Uncommon Members | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon member perks page | Ladies only event
Collaboration is business critical; successful collaboration leads to better quality, more original outputs, improved productivity and people enjoying their work. But just when we need it most, collaboration has taken a real hit. The trust and connection on which it depends doesn’t come as naturally when we’re on video calls all day or having to navigate a hybrid format. Now that hybrid working is here to stay, companies need to find new and effective ways to collaborate.
You’ll come away with:
– An understanding of how hybrid collaboration works
– A model for creating and facilitating collaborations that support your specific goals
– An understanding of how to make the technology work for you rather than getting in your way
– Exercises, tools and techniques to improve your team’s productivity and performance
– The skills to optimise hybrid collaboration by encouraging and managing behaviours
– Curve’s Collaboration Canvas to help you design your ways of working
– An output document that captures all of the learnings for you to share with your team
Discount for Uncommon members | Limited Spaces Available | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon members perks page
Nicole Crentsil is a Ghanaian-British cultural curator, entrepreneur and investor based in London. Nicole is the CEO of Black Girl Fest – a platform dedicated to Black women, girls and non-binary people. She’s also the founder of BIG SIS, a new network supporting the personal development of creative working women.
Nicole currently sits on the Members Advisory Board for the Tate and is also a VC Scout and Angel Investor with Ada Ventures- a £34 million fund investing in underrepresented founders.
In 2018, Forbes listed Nicole as one of 100 women to follow on Twitter and LinkedIn. In the same year, TimeOut named Nicole as 1 of 50 Londoner’s shaping the city’s cultural landscape. Nicole is passionate about connecting women, young people and underrepresented groups to art, culture and events.
