Publication date: April 2024
Reporting period: 01 September 2022 to 31 August 2023
1. Commitment to achieving Net Zero
Catch22 is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050.
Baseline emissions footprint
Baseline Year Emissions: 01 September 2020 – 31 August 2021 (2020-21 Financial Year)
Our baseline year is currently set for 2020-2021. Due to organisational changes experienced since then, which will be explained in more detail on the report sections below, we will be establishing a new baseline year that will give us a more accurate reference point for our Net Zero path. We estimate that our new baseline year will be set for 2025-26.
Emissions |
Total (tCO2e*) |
| Scope 1 | 324.6 t |
| Scope 2 | 157.9 t |
| Scope 3** | 107.3 t |
| Total Emissions | 589.8 tCO2e* |
Additional details relating to the Baseline Emissions calculations:
- Scope 1: Fuels (Natural Gas) 324.6 t
- Scope 2: UK Electricity 157.9 t
- Scope 3: Business Travel Air 0.45 t; Business Travel Land 98.62 t; Hotel Stay 8.26 t
*tCO2e stands for tonnes (t) of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent (e). “Carbon dioxide equivalent” is a standard unit for counting greenhouse gas emissions regardless of whether they’re from carbon dioxide or another gas, such as methane.
**Current limitations on data available to report on Scope 3 items such as waste disposal, employee commute and material use. This will be reported more fully in future years.
2. Current emissions reporting
Reporting Year: 01 September 2022 to 31 August 2023
Emissions |
Total (tCO2e*) |
| Scope 1 | 405.3 t |
| Scope 2 | 154.9 t |
| Scope 3** | 276.3 t |
| Total Emissions | 836.5 tCO2e* |
Additional details relating to the current emissions calculations:
- Scope 1: Fuels (Natural Gas) 404 t; Owned Vehicles 1.3 t
- Scope 2: UK Electricity 154.9 t
- Scope 3: Business Travel Air 3.5 t; Business Travel Land 245 t; Hotel Stay 18.9 t; Managed Assets (Vehicles) 5.2 t; Water Supply 1.7 t; Water Treatment 1.9 t; Homeworking 0.1 t
*tCO2e stands for tonnes (t) of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent (e). “Carbon dioxide equivalent” is a standard unit for counting greenhouse gas emissions regardless of whether they’re from carbon dioxide or another gas, such as methane.
Since our baseline year, our emissions have increased due to a rise in onsite in-person activities and business travel. This is a result of COVID-19 restrictions being lifted since then. In April 2023 we onboarded a dedicated staff resource to focus on environmental initiatives and improve our reporting, which has helped us gather more data for Scope 3 calculations. New data accounted for in the 2022-2023 report includes:
- Water usage and waste
- Homeworking
- Business travel from car rentals: mileage claims are accounted since baseline year
- Managed assets (long-term leased vehicles)
In future years we aim to collect more Scope 3 data from key supply chain partners and develop new processes to improve data quality so our emission calculations will be more accurate. Currently, our main emissions sources are gas, electricity and business travel, so we will focus on reducing these in next few years.
3. Emissions reduction targets
In order to continue our progress to achieving Net Zero, we have adopted the following carbon
reduction targets and projections:
2023-2026: A reduction in leased premises will decrease our procured gas and electricity, which will reduce our Scope 1 and 2 emissions significantly during these two financial years.
2025-2026: This will be our new baseline year as the emissions reported will fully reflect the reduction in our premises. The data quality will also have improved as new processes will be established to make more accurate calculations of our Scope 1 and 2 emissions.
We have set an annual reduction target of 10% per year during 2025 to 2036, and 20% for the period 2036 to 2041. By 2040, overall emissions should have decreased by 90% compared with the new baseline, and at this point we will continue to reduce and offset the final 10%, achieving Net Zero in 2045.
Progress against projections and targets can be seen in the graph below:
4. Carbon reduction projects
Completed carbon reduction initiatives
The following initiatives have been implemented since the baseline year:
- We have switched our contract with SSE to purchase electricity from renewable sources, this will have a significant reduction in our Scope 2 emissions from the reporting year 2023-2024.
- In order to reduce Business Travel emissions, we have offered our employees two schemes to support sustainable travel. These are the cycle to work and car benefit scheme that gives our employees access to low emissions vehicles with a CO2 set limit of 119g/km.
- We have installed two Electric Vehicle chargers at our corporate office in Kent and one at our College in Nottingham.
- In addition to our sustainable travel schemes we support and encourage our employees with flexible and hybrid work. Our staff conferences and meetings are held in a hybrid mode to reduce unnecessary work-related travel.
- From June 2023, we established a Sustainability Champions network to allow collaboration and raise awareness across different areas of our organisation.
Future carbon reduction initiatives
The future vision is to implement measures such as:
- Install smart meters and energy monitoring tools to improve Scope 1 and 2 data quality.
- Improve lighting at our Head Office in London. We will switch lights to LED and assess the possibility of installing automatic light sensors to reduce unnecessary consumption.
- Work with our landlords and Business Development (Fundraising) team to seek opportunities to improve energy efficiency of our premises.
- In October 2023 we launched a new Waste and Recycling service to reduce waste and improve recycling at two of our offices. We will continue to rollout this service for more of our sites in the upcoming years.
- As we are a service-focused organisation, we will take advantage of our one-to-one interactions with staff and service users, and develop projects led by our Sustainability Champions to raise awareness amongst them to generate meaningful impact and environmental change.
- We will continue to install more electric vehicle chargers at other delivery sites to support our staff using low emission vehicles.
5. Declaration and sign off
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and associated guidance and reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans.
Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.
Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements, and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions have been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard.
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors (or equivalent management body).
Signed on behalf of the Supplier: N. Richards
Date: 30th April 2024