Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

APR supports the communities in which our customers, employees and associates live and work. We aim to work with local businesses wherever possible and to generally act as a good neighbour.

To encourage charitable donations, we operate a scheme whereby APR matches charity contributions from all UK employees (whether through Give as You Earn contributions or for sponsored events).

We are proud to support charities and causes that are important to our staff in our charity events and build relationships with them to learn and spread awareness. Since 2016, we have held an annual APR charity day, which has raised over  £100,000 which has been donated across a number of deserving charities  – see our 2025 charity recap for details on our recent activities.

At APR, we have a strong desire to make a positive impact by operating in a sustainable way. To help us achieve this in a manner that is transparent and meaningful to all our stakeholders, we have developed our three pillars of sustainability:

• Human sustainability
• Environmental and socioeconomic sustainability
• Financial sustainability

First and foremost, we are an employee-led organisation. We recognise that our people are our greatest asset and want to invest in their future. Training and development is at the forefront of our ethos to invest in our staff’s futures and make sure they have the skills required to excel at their work.

We recognise that our futures and our stakeholders depend on running the business in an environmentally sustainable way - we make annual disclosures on our carbon footprint to the Carbon Disclosure Project, produce regular newsletters to educate our staff, and have a dedicated ESG team who are committed to driving our sustainability initiatives.

Finally, we recognise that financial sustainability is important to the on-going success of the business. To achieve this APR focuses on continuing to deliver excellent outcomes for our clients.

We recognise that as actuaries we possess a strong blend of problem solving, strategic and risk evaluation skills, and experience that can be brought to bear in meeting the challenge of strengthening resilience to climate change related risks. We have developed staff awareness and capability to carry out this work with dedicated training including in our induction programme. We know this is an area of rapid advancement so a priority for our ESG team is to continue to keep our staff knowledge base up to date.

While our carbon footprint is relatively small, we recognise the need to do our part to minimise our contributions where possible.  Our 2024-25 year footprint was 184 Tonnes of CO2 Equivalent (tCO2e), and the biggest contributors to this were Purchased Goods and Service (115.6 tCO2e) and Employee Commute/WFH (32.5 tCO2e).

Our employee working practices aim to minimise employee emissions by promoting flexible working, and working with our suppliers where possible to minimise our joint emissions.

If you are an APR client please feel free to reach out and ask for our emissions data – we’re happy to provide it to you.

As a business which is highly dependent on people for our success, we maintain a strong focus on our employees and their development, by:

• Operating an equal opportunities policy for all present and potential future employees.
• Ensuring that our people are treated with dignity, and provided with a working environment free from bullying or harassment, whether working at APR’s offices or on client sites.
• Promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce and working environment, where success depends on ability and contributions made.
• Creating a working environment in which individual differences and the contributions of all our staff are recognised and valued.
• Providing a safe, fulfilling and rewarding career for all our employees and associates, and provide resources to enable their continual development.
• Contributing positively to the actuarial profession, and in particular supporting the profession in its efforts to increase diversity and accessibility