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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 September 2024
Principal activities of the company
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 October 2023
to
30 September 2024
Secretary
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
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The notes form part of these financial statements
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 30 September 2024
Basis of measurement and preparation
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Company activities and impact During our third full financial year (12 months from 1st October 2023 to 30th September 2024) we have continued to make significant impact with a focus on two overarching areas: 1. Sectoral Advocacy: to build visibility and credibility we spoke on numerous platforms about the importance of influential in-house lawyers namely, General Counsels (GCs) and Chief Legal Officers (CLOs), regarding sustainability issues e.g. Economist GC Summit, LegalESG, GC100, Reuters, Solicitors Regulation Authority, WBCSD, Association of Corporate Counsel Chief Legal Officer Summit. We also featured in UK’s highest profile publications concerning the legal sector: The Financial Times, The Lawyer, Legal500, Law.com and Law Gazette. We posted regularly on social media and also met individual prospective participants for our Leadership Programme. Adam Woodhall, our inspirational CEO & Founder, was voted ‘Legal Personality of the Year’ for 2023 in the LexisNexis Awards. On 26th June 2024 we changed our trading name to “General Counsel Sustainability Forum CIC”. 2.GC Leadership Programme: our programme uses a bespoke process which has been developed entirely by our own team to support our GC and CLO participants, who are all highly influential inhouse lawyers, to enable them to help drive the sustainability transformation of their organisation. We’ve used change management tools, neuroscience, social science, psychology and behavioural insights to build this programme. During the year, we worked with a wide range of GCs and CLOs from organisations which had aggregated revenue of more than £150bn including Rolls Royce, ArcelorMittal, National Grid, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Specsavers, BUPA, Dentsu, and WPP. We also facilitated our Leadership Programme participants engaging in key consultation exercises with The Law Society of England and Wales on its Guidance on the Impact of Climate Change on Solicitors published in April 2023.
Consultation with stakeholders Our key stakeholders are: - the influential GC/CLO participants in our Leadership Programme - the wider pool of GCs/CLOs from which future programme participants will be drawn - the broader legal sector including the wider community of lawyers, law firms, legal training organisations and legal regulators. Our other main stakeholders were our team, who are largely volunteers, aside from our CEO who was salaried. Current Forum members The Forum is a guided peer-to-peer process where we have regular meetings with the participants. We also run regular participant surveys to encourage feedback. Over 80% of participants who responded to our survey feel very strongly or strongly that the Leadership Programme is helping them accelerate taking meaningful action. We regularly made various iterative changes to our Leadership Programme to incorporate the feedback from participants and to maximise our, and their impact. Future Participants/Wider community of lawyers As part of our advocacy work to raise the profile of sustainability in the legal sector generally, we speak at many different events and meet many stakeholders from the wider community of lawyers. Any feedback we receive from such consultations is incorporated into our Leadership Programme as appropriate – it is a process of continuous improvement. Volunteers We have a large team of enthusiastic volunteers. Our CEO has regular meetings with all volunteers to consult with them on their role with us, their impact and to encourage feedback. We have volunteer team meetings twice a year and have a team WhatsApp group for the entire team including volunteers to ensure feedback can be given swiftly and directly.
Directors' remuneration During the year, the director Adam Peter Woodhall received £50,000 in remuneration (2023: £50,000) in respect of his services to the company. The director Jane Louise Airth Pittaway received £10,500 in remuneration (2023: NIL) in respect of her services to the company.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
22 June 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Mr Adam Peter Woodhall
Status: Director