Sustainability communications & impact

30 years of communications to protect and improve lives

Since 1996, we’ve worked alongside bold organisations to challenge assumptions, navigate uncertainty and push for progress. The challenges today are different, but no less urgent. This moment calls for communications that mobilise our knowledge, skills and collective determination to shape a fairer, more sustainable future.

We launched The Forgiveness Project. a powerful new charity to explore the complexity of forgiveness. More than 20 years later it’s still reaching global audiences.

Our work on Fairtrade Fortnight in 2006-8 helped drive sustained growth in consumer awareness, retailer participation and support for Fairtrade. UK sales of products rose 72% in 2007.

We ensured stories from the survivors and bereaved were told accurately and on their own terms for Grenfell Testimony Week.

We created Age UK’s first integrated campaign raising £800,000 in the first year, and secured £20m in Government investment. It remains their core winter platform 16 years later.

We delivered the UK’s first national mental health anti-stigma campaign Mind Out for Mental Health. Our resources reached over 3 million people and helped train hundreds of journalists and practitioners.

We partnered with Helpforce for six years, beginning with their launch strategy and first major campaign. Our partnership helped to generate 33,000 NHS volunteers and secured more than 30 NHS partners.

We created Seeing is Believing for Standard Chartered’s 150th anniversary. It went on to run for 17 years and funded over 200 global eye health projects.

We helped Penguin Random House use their Lit in Colour campaign to challenge schools and exam boards to teach more books by writers of colour. Over half of all secondary schools in England went on to apply for free books and resources, and over 255k books were donated.

We have partnered with Patagonia since 2019 to deliver campaigns to UK audiences. Highlights include announcing earth as the only shareholder, campaigning against Icelandic salmon farms, championing grassroots campaigners and fighting for protection of wild rivers.

We launched Selfridges’ transformational Project Earth initiative. 45% of Selfridges transactions now come from circular products and services.

We helped shift wind energy into the cultural mainstream, building public endorsement with high profile figures and giving voice to the silent majority of supporters.

With less than 24 hours’ notice, we became NHS Charities Together’s communications team and helped raise over £150m during the pandemic.

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Forster Communications Impact Report 2023-24

Over the last year we have reduced our scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions by 10%

87% of our suppliers and 59% of our clients are members of the Living Wage Campaign

The team logged 29% more active minutes last year, supporting physical and mental wellbeing. 40% of the team now cycle or walk to work

Our community project with Practical Action helped train 129 young people in Bangladesh as Local Resilience Agents

Our first Integrated Profit and Loss account showed a positive impact value of £3.53m across human, produced, social and natural capitals

We are working with the charity sector to accelerate climate action and last year spent 156 hours volunteering and on pro-bono support

We’re invested in our team: 90% of the team feel colleagues are there to help them achieve a positive work-life balance and 90% have had a clear conversation with their line manager about the future of their career in the last six months

We made a further 5% reduction in office waste, showing our new system and training is continuing to have an important effect

100% employees feel able to share information and new ideas, and that their opinions are valued

36% of the businesses we work with have nature targets in place

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We’ve always reported on our impact as a business because we believe transparency and learning are essential to create lasting change.

Our three-year climate action plan, Taking it Personally, concluded in 2026. It helped us drive progress across climate, nature and people while deepening our understanding of how impact is created, measured and improved over time.

This year we created our first Integrated Profit and Loss (IPL) account with the Capitals Coalition, helping us better understand our impacts across human, social, produced and natural capital. Alongside our annual Impact and Client Disclosure Reports, we’ll continue to share our progress, openly.

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10 YEARS A B CORP

As a B Corp, we’re verified by B Lab to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. We’re incredibly proud to have been recertified with a score of 131.1 – putting us in the top 3% of B Corps in the UK.

So how did we do it and what have we learnt?

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“Sustainability is deeply embedded in the DNA of Foster Communications.”

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