Welcome to The Bigger Picture, the home of Assura’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy.
Assura are the first FTSE250 B Corp and our goal is to become the number one listed property business for long-term social impact and sustainability and to have a net zero carbon portfolio by 2040.
The nature of the challenges we face today means our long-term commercial success will be driven by our performance delivering social impact and sustainability. This is at the heart of everything we do.
What we're doing...
Our strategy is split into three key pillars

Healthy Environment

Healthy Communities

Healthy Business
Our purpose, we BUILD for health, is about more than bricks and mortar – it means connecting everything we do to the bigger picture. Meet the members of our Social Impact and Sustainability Steering Group, who are responsible for ensuring our ESG performance remains a top priority so it drives our future success as a business.

As chair of the Steering Group, Jonathan is ultimately responsible for integrating our ESG strategy so it is at the heart of what we do.

Karen leads on our Healthy Communities approach and is here to ensure we maximise social impact for the communities we work in.

Paul leads on our Healthy Environment objectives, in particular reducing energy consumption across our portfolio for the benefit of our customers.

As secretary of the Steering Group, David is responsible for all our external disclosures to investors and ESG rating agencies.

Jayne is responsible for communicating our ESG strategy with our investors.

Orla is a member of the Steering Group and supports on our Healthy Community reporting.

Sarah has overall responsibility for our people strategy and culture, supporting our goal to be an employer of choice.

Rob ensures that all Steering Group activities align with the property team objectives.
Impact stories
Discover what we’re doing to focus on The Bigger Picture. Here, you’ll find some of our latest news, research, impact reports, disclosures and updates.
