» Garland Strengthens its Commitment to Sustainability Through a Refreshed Strategy and Annual Report
Garland refreshed its sustainability strategy and annual report with Action Sustainability, setting commitments and targets that match its resources and priorities.
Garland approached Action Sustainability to undertake a sustainability strategy refresh. This builds on year-on-year sustainability reporting but identified the need to update and align Garland’s sustainability commitments and targets with internal resource availability and changing priorities.
By continually updating and refreshing Garland’s strategy, this displays best practice as it allows commitments and targets to be up to date, achievable and relevant to the organisation, while providing transparency with regard to changing priorities.
Garland also required support with developing their annual report, to display progress against sustainability.
To support Garland, Action Sustainability delivered a series of tasks:
Drivers and materiality: We facilitated a discussion to understand sustainability drivers and materiality exercises, relevant to Garland. This gathered perspectives on: the current drivers for Garland being sustainable, what the level of ambition is and the challenges and opportunities.
Benchmarking: We undertook a benchmarking exercise, to understand the sustainability performance, ambitions and maturity of five competitor organisations, based on publicly available information. This exercise showcased how Garland currently compares against these organisations.
Strategy refresh and action plan: We collated all the information to update and refresh Garland’s sustainability strategy. With this, we also updated Garland’s action plan, to support the delivery of the new commitments and targets.
Annual report: For Garland’s annual report, we summarised the analysis of sustainability data for 2025, alongside recommendations for what to include in the report, and how to progress against their commitments and targets. This included comparisons with previous years’ data, identification of hotspot areas for improvement and an overview of progress made.
The refreshed sustainability strategy Action Sustainability helped us develop gives us a clear, realistic path forward, one that reflects our resources and priorities rather than sitting on a shelf. The support with our annual report has also given us a much stronger way to show genuine year-on-year progress to our stakeholders.
Action Sustainability’s work with Garland to develop a refreshed sustainability strategy enables Garland to deliver on their purpose whilst addressing relevant sustainability impacts, risks and opportunities. By focusing on the issues where Garland can have the biggest impact, Garland can continue to provide customers with long-lasting trusted partnerships, whilst embedding sustainability into everything that they do.
The refreshed strategy prioritised commitments and targets that were both relevant and achievable, reflecting resource availability and changing priorities.
By developing the annual report, Garland is showcasing transparency by showing their year-on-year progress. This covered key data on carbon, waste and people, including carbon reductions, waste production and initiatives undertaken to support internal staff and external stakeholders.
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