EQ Investors was one of the 62 founding UK B Corps way back in 2015, after the wealth manager’s founder and chair John Spiers read about the network in the US and “wanted to do something different”.

Founded in 2006, the B Corp network began as three American friends who shared a vision to make business a force for good. The first 82 Certified B Corps were named the following year.

Britain now has one of the largest and fastest-growing communities of sustain...