Impact Report l 2025
Beyond building - our year of positive impact
Our Mission
Founded in 1973 within the community architecture movement, Poynton Bradbury has long championed socially valuable and environmentally responsive design.
Over the past 50 years, we’ve collaborated with communities, local authorities and organisations to deliver projects that prioritise social wellbeing, environmental stewardship and long-term value. Our portfolio includes work in healthcare, education and housing—sectors where architecture can make a real difference in people’s lives.
These principles are deeply embedded in the way we work, and becoming a certified B Corp reflects our enduring commitment to aligning business with purpose.
Our Verified B Corp Score
We are very proud to have achieved an overall impact score of 120.3, making us the 5th highest scoring employee-owned architecture practice in the UK.
Becoming certified is just the first step on our journey of continuous improvement, putting people and the environment first - using our business as a force for good.
£6,771
Workers
IMPACT SCORE: 63.3
What we did
• Continued Profit Share to employees
• Introduction of long service holiday entitlement
• The sports and wellbeing allowance of £50 per year has been used to contribute to the following:
- Pilates
- Conqueror Virtual Challenge
- South West Women in Construction Running Team
- Penzance Wheelers
- St. Just Go! Sports and Fitness
- Saints Boardriders Surf Club
- One pair of football boots
• This year we faced unexpected challenges coming from a changing market. Unfortunately, these events led to a restructure of parts of our team in Autumn 2024. As part of this process, we PBA supported staff by offering voluntary redundancy and full pay without requiring notice periods to be worked. Following this, we have worked hard to rebuild our team and aim to come back more resilient in 2025.
IMPACT SCORE: 25.5
Installed 4 new on-site EV chargers and switched to a fully
Developed a Carbon Reduction Plan which assessed our carbon footprint and set targets to reduce this.
Planted 200+ Cornish Oaks (Quercus Petrea) which could equate to 360 tonnes of CO2 over 60 years or 24,600
- Cornwall Wildlife Trust.
* Pelsmakers, S. (2015). The Environmental Design Pocketbook . RIBA Publishing, 2nd Edition
Beyond Building - Our Year of
IMPACT SCORE: 20.2
Included wider social and environmental goals within Broader training around social and environmental
Published our first ever Business Impact Report highlighting overall company social and environmental
Reaffirmed our B Corp commitment to:
• Accountability and continuous improvement
• Prioritising people, even in difficult times
• Staying aligned with our values and long-term mission
Communities
IMPACT SCORE: 9.5
What we did
• Supporting an apprentice one day per week from local college course
• Hosted the RIBA Sandcastle Competition as part of the St Ives September Festival
• Made charitable donations totalling £3,759 including donations to Cornwall Heritage Trust and St. Ives Biathlon
• Spent 100+ volunteer hours helping charities and organisations including:
- HM Coastguard
Plant One Tree Planting
Building Trust International
St. Ives Food Bank
Cornwall Heritage Trust
Long Rock Memorial Institute
Project Highlights: Social Value in Action
Over the past year, several of our architecture projects have delivered more than just buildings. By supporting communities, enhancing public spaces, and fostering inclusion, these projects demonstrate our commitment to creating social value through design.
Bodmin Care Home : Social value in integrating design features to avoid social isolation and loneliness and encourage social engagement
Long Rock Memorial: Community sensory gardens alongside a new multi-function building
Three Bridges Academy: Delivery of a sensory learning pod
Honeygar Farm: To develop a scientific research centre to study peat to lock in more carbon alongside circular economy
Trevithick Manor Farm: Delivery of 96 Cornish homes for fellow B Corp Treveth
Stoke House: Provided six shared apartments for people at risk of homeless in Penryn
Ia Church: Works to make the Grade I
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Stoke House St Ia Church
A place to stay, a chance to rebuild
Refurbishment and reconfiguration works to a Grade II listed building to be used as a homeless shelter, comprising 6no twobed shared apartments. The scheme forms part of a broader housing initiative aimed at delivering 22 affordable homes for individuals at risk of homelessness, contributing to a long-term strategy for inclusive, supportive housing within the community.
Making sacred space accessible to all
St Ia Church, a Grade I listed medieval church built in 1410 as a Chapel of Ease, is located in the heart of the St Ives Conservation Area. The works focus on enhancing both accessibility and functionality while preserving the church’s historical significance, including the creation of an accessible main entrance.
The Future
Looking ahead to the coming year, we remain committed to the full spectrum of the B Corp agenda. In particular, we will be focusing on environmental sustainability - an area where we believe we can make the most meaningful impact.
This will involve ongoing improvements to our own working environments in St Ives and Exeter, as well as ensuring that sustainability is central to our project delivery and the advice we provide to clients.
Our long-term vision for the practice is to continue growing as a socially and environmentally responsible business - one that contributes positively to people, place and planet.
As we move forward, we reaffirm our values and our belief in architecture as a tool to help create a better, more equitable and more sustainable world.
What We Will Do Next
• Launch our ‘Social Value Guide’ to help educate our staff and clientele on the potential of positive impact
• Continue to monitor and aim to reduce our practice carbon footprint
• Electric car initiative for employees
• Increase the use of feedback surveys to monitor client satisfaction and inform our approach
• Continue to nurture, develop and leverage the additional skills and expertise within our practice to broaden our service offerings
• Encourage employees to utilise their annual wellbeing and volunteering allowances
Thank You!
Thank you for taking the time to read our firstever B Corp Impact Report. We’re proud to share this milestone with you and grateful for the continued support of our clients, collaborators and community.
This report marks just the beginning of a more transparent and purpose-driven journey — and we’re excited to keep building it together!
