B Corp™ and Simplyhealth
Using our business as part of a global movement, working to benefit people and the planet.
The UK's first B Corp™ Health Insurer
In 2022, B Corp recognised our significant achievements in sustainability and our ambitious environmental and social responsibility goals.
All in a year’s work
As we enter our fourth year of B Corp™ certification, we will be further embedding our purpose and plans for positive impact in our company DNA.
Please enjoy reading about our latest progress, impacts and next steps – we’re not perfect and will never claim to be, but we are committed to always improving our impact as a B Corp™ business and growing in the process.
What being a B Corp™ means
What is a B Corp™?
A B Corp™ is a business that meets high standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose, verified by B Lab™.
To become a B Corp™ you must be externally and independently assessed. Our business practices are certified against 5 impact pillars including environmental, governance, customers, community and workers. These standards are looked at through a rigorous assessment and demonstrate that we are meeting the high standards B Corp™ require of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.
During 2025, B Corp™ strengthened its global standards for business impact, equipping companies to drive meaningful, sustainable change.
What the B Corp™ movement means to us
In November 2025, B Lab™ celebrated 10 years of the B Corp™ movement in the UK. Collectively, we are showing that future-fit business models are possible, impactful, and scalable.
Being a B Corp™ business goes to the heart of why we exist and the positive impact we want to have as we strive to improve access to healthcare for all in the UK.
Our colleagues live and breathe our purpose in everything they do. As an example, for B Corp™ month (March 2025), our colleagues decided to ‘B Together’ by connecting with each other and getting moving - walking everyday to raise money for a local charity, Andover Mind.
How we became B Corp™ certified
In 2022, we completed our first B Impact™ Assessment, scoring 91.9. To become B Corp™ certified, the company needs to score over 80 and, every 3 years, must repeat this independent assessment process. This ensures we are maintaining the high standards that B Corp™ requires.
In 2025, we were proud to announce that we once again recertified, and we were delighted to improve our score to 108.4 – an increase of 16.5 points and improvements across all five impact categories!
To achieve this, we answered over 230 questions on how we run our business and care for our customers, community, colleagues and the wider environment. Our improved score has been a huge team effort and is a testament to the many improvements and investments we’ve made over the last three years, in pursuit of delivering our purpose more powerfully.
Here is a summary of those areas and our scores:
Governance
score: 21.6
Governance score evaluates a company’s overall mission, ethics, accountability and transparency. This also evaluates the ability of a company to protect its mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision-making, through its corporate structure or corporate governing documents.
Workers
score: 39
Workers score evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health and safety, wellness, career development, engagement and satisfaction.
Community
score: 16.5
Community score evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity and inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management.
Environment
score: 16.2
Environment score evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable, its supply chain and distribution channels.
Customers
score: 14.9
Customers score evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels.
What's next in our B Corp™ journey?
Since Simplyhealth’s certification in 2022, B Corp™ has been rapidly growing and gaining traction, and now the UK is home to the largest B Corp™ community globally, with more than 2,700 UK B Corp™ certified companies.
We are extremely proud to be part of a community of businesses working together for change, and taking part in collective action to advocate for a shared goal of a global economy that benefits people and the planet. Undertaking the rigorous B Impact™ Assessment and collaborating with other like-minded B Corp™ businesses has empowered us to take our own impact further, and we’re so pleased to see the B Corp™ message resonating more and more with businesses across the UK.
We’ll continue to showcase our progress and impacts with our stakeholders, aiming to inspire others to never stand still.
You can learn more about our progress and our areas of focus for the coming 12 months by reading our most recent B Corp™ Force for Good 24/25 Report. You can also view our latest updates as part of our 2025 Sustainability Report.
Looking to become a
B Corp™?
To learn more about our B Corp™ journey, to collaborate with us, or get support with your own B Corp™ journey, please contact Charlotte Cook, Simplyhealth’s ESG and B Corp Lead, who will be pleased to help.
10% discount for UK B Corp™ certified companies
To mark their membership in the B Corp™ community, UK B Corp™ certified companies can enjoy a 10% discount on our standard corporate rates for employee health and dental plans during their first year.