B corp status

Quoted from forza ivano

what bit of 'the application has gone in and is awaiting a decision' do you not understand?

The work has been done, and was completed months ago. There is absolutely zero evidence it has taken away resources from the playing side. The application costs £250, ffs

Why don't you try and do just a basic bit of research before spouting off?

Where did I mention money ye blert?
The effort they put into all this woke nonsense could have been better spent with the on field matters.

Quoted from forza ivano

I think Jason said yesterday that the delay in being accredited was down to BCorp being slow in processing applications, which he's had a moan about to them. That means the application was obviously done and dusted months ago.

The business case is made in their intro

Achieving B Corp™ status also has firm business benefits. Research from ONS shows that certified businesses grow 28 times faster than the national economic growth of 0.5%.

The other benefits is that being the only football club with BCorp status is a U.S.P. (unique selling point) and may well open doors which previously would've been closed to us; that might include investors, sponsors & suppliers who would be more willing to deal with us

He obviously believes in it which is fair enough, but it is such a niche thing with a tiny amount of firms accredited throughout the world, and a vanishingly small number in the UK. Hands up those of us had ever heard of it?

I would have thought serious business people would be happy to be involved with a Stockwood business given his reputation with or without it, and like everything else there are ongoing financial commitments with it.

It might be a trailblazing initiative with us being the first and only football club with it, but whether it will have any real world benefits I'm not sure. Are any of his other companies accredited does anybody know?

Quoted from TAGG

Where did I mention money ye blert?
The effort they put into all this woke nonsense could have been better spent with the on field matters.

I'm gonna go out on a whim here but I don't think the lad/lass who led on the certification (happy to be corrected but I think it is/was Adam Smith leading on it) is probably best placed to get on the training pitch and tell Luke Waterfall how to barge his man off the pitch rather than let him zoom round him and/or show Anthony Glennon how to not lose possession 35 yards out from your own goal in a central position.

I don't understand why there's this belief that the things we do off the pitch like B-Corp, working on the culture, improving the set-up, the fan experience can only be done in isolation and at a different time from stuff on the pitch.   They're literally two completely different entities.  Dave Artell, Paul Hurst, Ben Davies, Dave Moore, Harry Clifton....none of them will probably have any real awareness of what's going on with the B-Corp certification.  Even if they are, it's out of our hands now altogether.  Other than Smith/Stockwood/Debbie Cook looking at their e-mails every day to see if there's any update, we're not really putting anything (and nor can we) extra into it at the minute anyway.

Quoted from TAGG

Where did I mention money ye blert?
The effort they put into all this woke nonsense could have been better spent with the on field matters.

FFS. What is woke and how does it apply to B Corp?
Let’s hear it. Let’s hear one of you actually talk some  sense instead of spouting off some dog whistle, daily express, GB news bilge. What the f*** does what you’ve been told to be angry about have to do with a business model and culture blueprint?

Quoted from TAGG

Where did I mention money ye blert?
The effort they put into all this woke nonsense could have been better spent with the on field matters.

you are really are as thick as pigsh!t aren't you?
You mentioned 'resources' ,money is a resource

btw - who's 'they' who s putting all the effort in? Harry, Luke, Artell, pearson, Hutchinson, Davies, Neil Woods?

Massive distraction, a whole bunch of systems and controls to install then to be monitored and reported on. Total Bollllooox. Wrong type of business to apply this to!!!

Although i heard JS say he was a trusty of B Corp in the Walsall Prematch interview. Really, is that right???

If so then why is it taking so long?

Quoted from forza ivano

you are really are as thick as pigsh!t aren't you?
You mentioned 'resources' ,money is a resource

btw - who's 'they' who s putting all the effort in? Harry, Luke, Artell, pearson, Hutchinson, Davies, Neil Woods?

Come on mate, it's obvious he means it's a pisstake that Stockwood ain't out on the training ground working with Mullarkey on how to put a cross in that beats the first man !!!

Quoted from GibMariner

Massive distraction, a whole bunch of systems and controls to install then to be monitored and reported on. Total Bollllooox. Wrong type of business to apply this to!!!

Although i heard JS say he was a trusty of B Corp in the Walsall Prematch interview. Really, is that right???

If so then why is it taking so long?

Just to be clear- are you claiming that the playing side of GTFC is being distracted (massively) by the B Corp process?
If so just wow!

Quoted from GibMariner

Massive distraction, a whole bunch of systems and controls to install then to be monitored and reported on. Total Bollllooox. Wrong type of business to apply this to!!!

Although i heard JS say he was a trusty of B Corp in the Walsall Prematch interview. Really, is that right???

If so then why is it taking so long?

Yes he was a trustee of B Lab U.K. the quango/ charity that runs B Corp certification . Resigned in Nov 2021 . Perhaps he should of stayed on until we got our certificate

Quoted from barralad

Just to be clear- are you claiming that the playing side of GTFC is being distracted (massively) by the B Corp process?
If so just wow!

No yet, but it will be when implimented and the confomances of systems insalled need to be maintined to keep the acreditation. Any positives from such a labouros system can be implimented aside of B Corp.