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Useful Simple Trust Impact Report 2025/26

The Useful Simple Trust's 2025-26 Impact Report reflects on the employee-owned design consultancy's journey towards a more regenerative model, covering its projects, pro bono Useful Giving programme, R&D Trailblazing, volunteering and progress across carbon, biodiversity, wellbeing and social equity.

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The Useful Simple Trust is a Certified B Corporation family of design consultancies (Expedition Engineering, Useful Projects, Useful Studio) whose purpose is to transform its industry so that it delivers greater value to society and the planet.

Key Metrics

Learning hours 3,577 total learning hours delivered across the Trust, including 1,196 hours of dedicated critical thinking training completed by staff across two cohorts.
Climate volunteering 20 classroom hours volunteered with Climate Ed to deliver interactive climate change workshops in four London primary schools, reaching children aged 9-11.
Active travel 38,000 miles commuted by bicycle by the team, part of a regenerative approach to business, people, communities and the environment.
Charitable giving £3,500 donated to Maggie's and The Wildlife Trusts, charities aligned with the Trust's regenerative mission, alongside increased funding for its Useful Giving pro bono programme.

Key Outcomes

  • The Trust's Handprint tool now assesses every project along a regenerative-degenerative spectrum, its median gender pay gap progressed to 8.22%, and 28 industry award shortlists recognised its work.

Geography

UK-Wide

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