WE ARE RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS CONSULTANTS

A team of industry-leading responsible business specialists on hand to help you solve your CSR challenges. We are experienced, knowledgeable and cost-effective partners offering you strategic support and a helping hand at every stage of your sustainability and responsible business journey.

We have proven knowledge, extensive experience and hundreds of bright ideas for growing your business with purpose.

We’ll help you add value for your customers, employees and investors with practical, achievable activity and generate some great success stories along the way. Over the past 15 years we have travelled the same sustainable, ethical and social engagement road in fast growth companies, and we’ve learned a lot on the way. We know what it’s like in a tough marketplace and we also know the value that sustainability and social purpose can bring to your brand. We’re in a great place to offer you sensible, achievable, affordable CSR solutions that make a difference.

Climate change is an increasing priority for businesses that not only need to be compliant but want to thrive in a circular economy.

We can support you in your approach to products, packaging, waste and operations, addressing the environmental impact of your business and finding your opportunities to contribute and make the most of the low carbon economy.

Are you concerned that you may not have adequate oversight of human rights protection in your supply chains? Or does your business need a helping hand to make faster progress on diversity and inclusion? Maybe you would like to get up to speed on current and forthcoming legislation, including Modern Slavery and Gender Pay Gap reporting.

We can help you turn these business challenges into an opportunity – ensuring your people feel respected, valued and included, reducing risk and building positive messages for your brand. We can help you find the appropriate language and tone to communicate confidently with suppliers, NGO’s and customers about your challenges and progress.

An impactful community programme that embodies your brand’s purpose will build engagement with your team, your customers and your stakeholders.

Driving your purpose with the right partners can be time consuming and challenging, we can help you to develop relationships with charities, create your own corporate foundation and establish volunteering programs for employees.

Unless you have specialists in house, translating the good work that you do into robust reports for investors, strong policies, customer and corporate communications can be the barrier to really reaping the full rewards of a strong CSR programme. Choosing the right reporting frameworks, responding to customer or activist group enquiries and responding to investor questionnaires about sustainability and ethical trade can be a headache for the non-specialist.

We are on hand to help your teams in PR and Communications, marketing, sourcing, and investor relations navigate the reporting landscape, get the right language, tone and positioning for your communications and prepare non-specialists for Q&A sessions and conference speeches.

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Louise McCabe

Experienced CSR Director with MSc (Distinction) in Environmental Management, Chartered MCIPD status and a background in marketing and communications. Created the ASOS ‘Fashion with Integrity’ strategy from scratch, transforming ASOS over 10 years into an industry leader in ethical trade, sustainability and inclusion, and played a role in influencing the UK fashion industry more broadly, particularly its approach to Modern Slavery reporting, animal welfare and the celebration of diversity and body confidence in consumer communications. Founder and leader of the ASOS Foundation, with a track record of engaging employees, suppliers and customers in creative and effective community initiatives.

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Tara Luckman

A Sustainability Programme Leader with BSC Hons in Textile Science and deep experience in apparel and sourcing. Passionate about transforming the fashion industry with a proven track record for delivering change and fostering collaboration on the international platform. Led the ASOS product sustainability strategy from raw materials to recycling, introducing circular methodologies and an industry leading partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Fashion. Experienced across the gamut of environmental challenges for fashion from chemical compliance to customer engagement, having held roles at ASOS.com and Tesco plc spanning 15 years of team building and leadership in environmental stewardship.

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Providing deep expertise when you need it, we are proud to work with industry leaders in their field.

Claire Bates

A circular fashion specialist, Claire has created circular and sustainable fashion strategies for global retailers and brands including ASOS.com. Areas of expertise include circular design, upcycling & remanufacturing, textile recycling, brand sustainability strategies, circular business models, and sustainable buying and sourcing. With a degree in Retailing and Consumer Sciences, and a background in fashion buying at Dillards’, a luxury department store chain in the US, Claire brings together commercial acumen and circular thinking to help scale the positive impact of the circular economy.

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Alice Strevens

Alice is a senior business and human rights consultant and leader with extensive experience of apparel supply chains globally and complex multi-stakeholder environments. She led the ASOS ethical trade programme for over 10 years, developing strategies to support decent work and mitigate systemic workers’ rights issues within a fast-growing e-commerce environment.

Key areas of expertise include prevention of modern slavery, systems to improve purchasing practices, approaches to delivering living wage and freedom of association, as well as risk assessment and supply chain audit programmes.

Alice is able to navigate the balance between business commerciality, reputational risk and workers’ rights to ensure that supply chain interventions deliver results for all parties. Beyond textiles, Alice has supported UK work in logistics environments and has experience of addressing responsible business challenges in the hospitality sector. In her current role as Chief Purpose Officer at Shiva Hotels Group, she oversees strategy on sustainability, human rights and charitable partnerships.

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Illen Rowe

Illen specialises in developing strategic CSR programmes that inspire and engage employees and customers. With a background in both the charity and private sectors, he has a deep understanding of how to build authentic and impactful partnerships and campaigns. He previously led corporate responsibility programmes at both Harrods and ASOS and has experience of working with a wide range of sectors from his time at UNICEF UK. Specialist areas include diversity and inclusion, employer brand, community engagement and investment strategies, corporate volunteering programmes, sustainability and social impact communications

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Jess Gaymer

Jess is passionate about developing strategic programmes to inspire sustainable change. She is experienced in delivering both sustainability and diversity and inclusion programmes for a global brand. Sustainability expertise includes environmental compliance for energy and waste, Greenhouse Gas Emissions reporting and reduction strategies and sustainable packaging. Jess has a deep understanding of how to build strong relationships with supply chains to create a more sustainable approach and has led projects ranging from reusable packaging to measuring scope 3 emissions from logistics partners.

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I have had the great pleasure of working with Louise McCabe since 2004. Louise single handedly championed the CSR cause at ASOS in the early years to a point where it is now market leading in its Fashion with Integrity programme. A true professional, Louise is very knowledgeable in the area and combines practical thinking with commercial reality.

Nick RobertsonFounder - ASOS plc

At a time when it is vital that the fashion sector re-evaluates prosperity in order to be relevant, viable and credible, we need credible, knowledgeable, wonderful people like Tara Luckman, who is all of these things, plus a fantastic collaborator and trusted partner. Tara’s knowledge and understanding of fashion and sustainability is exemplary and together with the great expertise of Louise McCabe, Flourish is an exciting new manifestation of their combined abilities to create and guide businesses with a purpose.

Dilys WilliamsProfessor of Fashion, Design and Sustainability, Director of The Centre for Sustainable Fashion

Louise has supported me in growing my manufacturing business SOKO-Kenya for over 10 years. Together we also developed an extensive community programme in the Kasigau region of Kenya, building an impactful partnership between the ASOS Foundation and my charity, the SOKO Community Trust.

Louise has the amazing talent of out-of-the box creative thinking whilst always being grounded in commerciality and business wisdom. It is an absolute pleasure working with Louise and through our work together she has created an amazing legacy of thriving projects.

Jo MaidenFounder & CEO - SOKO-Kenya

Illen is very knowledgeable about the charity sector, a true professional and a great advocate for the power of partnerships and how companies and charities can make a meaningful impact in local communities.

I have had the pleasure of working with Illen since 2017 on our Prince’s Trust partnership with ASOS Foundation. Illen was the most fantastic advocate for The Prince’s Trust and worked hard to create in-house programmes across Tech, Customer Care and Fashion, empowering young people with the skills and confidence to transform their lives. He brilliantly inspired teams and volunteers across ASOS to be part of these programmes and to share their skills and insight with young people.

On top of that, Illen brilliantly drove our partnership – unlocking new opportunities, inspiring the ASOS community and helping raise vital funds so that the Prince’s Trust can do even more as a charity.

Catherine HutchinsonCorporate Partnerships Manager, The Prince’s Trust

Louise and I worked together for a number of years on a successful partnership between ASOS and the British Paralympic Association while I was the Commercial Director there. ASOS designed bespoke ceremony and formal wear for ParalympicsGB in Rio (2016) and Pyeong Chang (2018).

Louise has a collaborative, authentic and creative approach that helped create a bond between our very different organisations. She understood our brand and its global context, the particular needs of athletes and sports professionals, and the importance of an ethical supply chain.

Karl ReynoldsFounder, The Bridgeman (Formerly Commercial Director, British Paralympic Association)

I have worked with Claire in multiple capacities since 2016. She is a wonderful asset to any project or organisation- an independent and strategic thinker who is making a difference and lasting positive impact on the landscape of fashion. The passion, dedication and smarts she has applied during her time with us have transformed the business and how we look at potential opportunities.

Steven BethellPresident & Partner, Bank & Vogue and Beyond Retro