How architecture practice Bennetts Associates is helping to accelerate flight-free travel

Climate Perks is excited to announce our first Patron member: Bennetts Associates.

Our Patron members are a crucial part of our work to accelerate the clean travel revolution. They offer financial support to help Possible, the climate charity behind Climate Perks, grow the scheme and inspire more employers to offer their staff paid time off work for flight-free holidays.

“We have seen a growing interest and take-up of climate perks, which has become a talking point during interviews and sits high within our benefits. It is important to our employees to work for a practice that shares their values."

- JENNIFER FORD, HEAD OF HR AT BENNETTS ASSOCIATES

Bennetts Associates is one of the UK’s leading architectural practices and was recently recognised as Architect of the Year by the Architects’ Journal. Widely recognised for being at the forefront of sustainability and the current drive towards net zero carbon, it was the first architectural practice in the world to have approved science-based targets, and at the time of certification had the highest B Corp score of any architectural practice in the UK.

Joining as one of our founding members back in 2019, Bennetts Associates’ support, insights and participation have been paramount in getting Climate Perks to where we are now. With the help of Bennetts Associates and other Patron members, we will be able to empower even more people to receive paid leave for clean travel and cut their carbon by over 90%.

“After years of doing personal footprinting of staff we realised flight emissions were going up, and wondered how we could help. Staff are open to lower carbon methods of travel, but time was always an issue. Climate Perks is a great policy that gives practical support to staff as well as demonstrating our commitment to the Climate Emergency, which runs through everything that we do”.