Corporate Social Responsibilities for businesses

The demands on businesses from consumers, employees and investors alike are real - reducing negative impact, creating positive impact and proving it, are becoming a normal ask.

Operating a triple-bottom line business model of People, Planet and Profit can be incredibly complicated and resource-heavy for businesses to implement. Knowing where to start, and feeling assured that any efforts are compliant, and truly making an impact can be over-facing, and hiring experts or paying for advice isn’t a realistic option for many. 

The Fortus Foundation simplifies how a business can engage with a triple-bottom-line model.

We can combine your heart, with our head, to ensure your business is making the impact you want it to. We know where the opportunities for true impact lie. We know how to navigate the system. We know how to demonstrate impact.

Our passion is reaching the ‘unknowns’ – the grass roots organisations who lack visibility and resource to grow. There are 180,000 registered charities in the UK but 60% of all donations go to just 500 of them.

The UK charity sector does amazing things, but due to certain red tape and administrative burden, many funding mechanisms are excluding these tiny but mighty organisations.

We want businesses to use their charitable and CSR efforts to honour and support the entrepreneurial spirit of these groups - not just because it feels right, but because it makes financial sense.

A charity or non-profit’s efficiency is often measured by reviewing how many pennies to the pound land with end cause – in the UK, the average sits at around 85 pence.

But the small groups the Fortus Foundation will support do a huge amount with very little resource and so this number is often far higher.

So, when your business donates with us, more of your contribution lands directly with the end causes you’ve intended it for.

This is bolstered by the fact that the Fortus Foundation itself operates a 100 pence model.

Our running costs are being fully-funded by Fortus Ltd’s donation of 1% of its annual profits and turnover. 

Every penny you donate, goes straight where it’s needed most.

And so, the day you become a Fortus Foundation 1%er, will be the day your business starts to make true impact.

This innovative, reliable, funding model is fixing a crack in the current system. This model will enable the small and impactful to ensure what little resource they do have doesn’t have to be tangled up in complex grant applications, reporting, and achieving financial sustainability on their own - but be bolstered by community, support and shared expertise.

And they’re not the only ones – the community of 1%ers itself promises a network of like-minded business owners, with an instantly recognisable and verifiable badge of social responsibility and impact. And that's not all, as the community of 1%ers grows so can the opportunities for knowledge sharing and network building – all at its fingertips. 

The Fortus Foundation’s proximity to both its donors and beneficiary communities provides a unique level of perspective for both understanding and communicating impact. Regular feedback and qualitative storytelling is a key component of what we do, giving 1%ers direct examples of positive impact to point to.