B Corp and Simplyhealth
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.
Using our business as a force for good
All in a year’s work
As we enter our fourth year of B Corp certification, we will be working hard to use our business as a force for good.
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 certified by achieving a minimum verified score on the B Impact Assessment. This is a rigorous assessment of a company’s impact on governance, workers, customers, community, and the environment.
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 UK 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 and being a force for good.
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 2,600 UK B Corp-certified companies.
We are extremely proud to be part of such a forward-thinking, caring, responsible and impact-driven community. 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 2024 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.