Social Impact Report

Frontier is committed to being a socially responsible firm. Why? Because Frontier is employee owned and run, our social impact work represent the values, interests and principles of the people who make
up Frontier’s team. This commitment helps to make Frontier an employer that all staff are proud to work for.

We try to make a positive social impact to the communities in which
we work, in the following ways:

• Providing our consultancy services to charities on a pro bono basis.
• Minimising the impact we have on the environment.
• Contributing to charities that make a difference to people’s lives.
• Maintaining a working environment that supports and values people.
• Making sure that our work meets high ethical standards.

Everyone at Frontier is encouraged to get involved in pro bono work, and our employees have always shown great interest in doing so. We use economics to help our pro bono clients measure, understand and demonstrate their impact, and make best use of their data. Below are some of the organisations we have worked with most recently: 

• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
• Sustainability First
• It Gets Better
• Emmaus Connect
• Coram Beanstalk

Frontier regularly organises volunteering initiatives. They enable employees to volunteer in the most effective way possible, so they can make a positive impact on their communities.

Every Frontier employee has access to one volunteering day each year, but many volunteer more often than this as part of our projects.

Frontier helps and encourages its employees to undertake charitable
giving and fundraising.

Each year at Christmas, Frontier chooses a number of charities with which to share some of our financial success directly. Frontier employees vote on the charities that they would like to support. In recent years, we have chosen to support a wide range of international and local charities.

At Frontier we also offer Payroll Giving as an option for our staff and we recognise and support employee's efforts to raise money for charitable organisations with our fundraising matching scheme. 

Frontier’s vision is built on our values, which distinguish us and guide
our actions. We are committed to minimising the impact our business has on the environment. For the past two decades, we’ve been working within our business and with the wider community to promote greater environmental responsibility. 

We have:

• Been a carbon-zero company since 2010
• Signed up to the three environmental principles of the UN Global Compact.

We aim not only to limit our use of scarce natural resources and
generation of carbon emissions, but also to generate awareness
among our colleagues and engage in the policy debate on issues of
environmental sustainability.

Frontier provides meaningful and structured work experience schemes that give students an insight into working in economic consulting. These programmes are designed to give participants a taste of life at a consulting firm, how economics can be applied to different industries and settings, and to enhance the skills of participants through group sessions and tasks.

One of the aims of our programmes is to provide opportunities to groups that are underrepresented within economics. As well as providing Frontier with access to a more diverse talent pool, we want this to help widen access to the economics profession.

We thrive on the diversity of our people. It fuels our creativity, enabling us to tackle challenges from different perspectives and deliver unparalleled economic insights to our clients. It also makes for a more vibrant and fulfilling workplace. This is why we make it our mission to attract and retain a varied pool of talent.

Our ED&I guiding principles

Key to any successful strategy is how it is lived and embedded
within an organisation. We have set out our six guiding principles below: 

• Inclusivity is central to our culture.
• We create equal career advancement opportunities for all.
• Our leadership and decision-making benefits from diverse perspectives.
• We actively foster diversity and cultural awareness.
• We are inclusive in interactions with partners and clients.
• We are catalysts for social change within our industry.

Doing the right thing is important to us at Frontier. Not just because
our reputation depends on it, but because all employees have a role
in making Frontier a better organisation, and the values we bring
as individuals are reflected in the company we have created.

We ensure we do the right thing in a number of ways: 

• We are proud signatories of the UN Global Compact.
• We act in accordance with our ethics policy.
• We apply the same standards to our suppliers.