Wholegrain Digital was founded with the aim of not only helping positive organisations thrive online but also with the ambition of being a truly sustainable business, one that ‘walks the talk’ and inspires other companies with our actions and achievements.
Our annual impact reports highlight our successes each year, against the standards that we set for ourselves, as well as those we need to achieve to maintain and improve our B Corp certification score year on year.
2022/23 Impact Report
This year’s highlights include:
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Wholegrain Digital’s work culture was recognised by Escape the City as we made the Escape 100 list as an organisation to ‘escape’ to in 2022 and were recognised as ‘Culture Pioneers’ by HRZone |
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Our sustainability newsletter, Curiously Green, attracted 1,800 new subscribers, bring the total number of subscribers to 5,540+ |
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100% of our websites and 96% of our clients’ websites are now hosted with green hosting providers |
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Our work around Digital Sustainability as been featured widely in various publications including The Drum, Dense Discovery newsletter, Forbes magazine and even Reader’s Digest |
2021/22 Impact Report
This year’s highlights include:
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We released version 3 of our website carbon calculator, standardising calculations ahead of Earth Day 2022 |
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Our sustainability newsletter, Curiously Green, almost tripled in readership, going from 1,300 to 3,700 subscribers in one year |
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100% of our websites and 78% of our clients’ websites are now hosted with green hosting providers |
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Tom’s book, Sustainable Web Design, was translated into German |
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We celebrated 15 years of Wholegrain Digital! |
2020/21 Impact Report
This year’s highlights include:
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Achieving £1 million turnover for the first time since Wholegrain started in 2007 |
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Our sustainability newsletter, Curiously Green, achieved more than 1,300 subscribers in the first year since its launch |
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We enjoyed collaborating on several B Corp projects, especially the Better Business Act website. |
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Tom published a book, Sustainable Web Design, with A Book Apart |
2019/20 Ethics Report
In the 2019/20 financial year, we’re proud to report that almost three-quarters of our income came from clients who put purpose before profit.
This ethics-focused executive summary of our annual report shares more information on who our top positive clients were, and how we are leading the way in our mission to green the web.
2019/20 Impact Report
This year’s highlights include:
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Appearing on BBC |
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Increasing our B Impact score by 24.2, to 108.4 |
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Now using 100% renewable energy both in the office and at home |
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Launched a new sustainability newsletter, attracting more than 800 subscribers in 6 months |
2018/19 Impact Report
This year’s highlights include:
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Launched the world’s first website carbon calculator |
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100 of our websites and 60% of our clients’ websites were hosted on green hosting |
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90% of our team use renewable energy at home and 57% of our total energy comes from renewable sources |