Carbon Report 2023
Our carbon footprint has increased by 63% and is 143 tonnes of CO2 for the 2023 period.
The increase is mostly due to increases on our home-based emissions calculations and increasing the months of heating to 6 months of the year. We have also increased communication services, domestic travel, activities of our organisation as well as an increase in our staff.
As a home-based organisation, we use Sustainable Scotland Network Reporting Guidance to calculate our staff’s electricity and heating usage based on hours worked from home. We also included water usage applying 2023 Defra conversion factors. We recognise that water is still being used at people’s homes.
Our staff full time equivalent (FTE) increased from 11.18 to 12.03. The average carbon emissions per FTE staff member is 11,913 kgCO2 which is 51% more than in 2022.
It is our aim to minimise our carbon footprint as much as possible, however as it happens with any other organisation, we still have a residual carbon footprint. We offset, using the Carbon Coalition, 143 tonnes of CO2 for our 2023 carbon
footprint.
Scope 2: We calculate our staff heating, electricity and lighting use based on home-working calculations
Scope 3: We calculate our travel (staff and board), our water use (based on home-working calculations) and our supply chain emissions (based on the HESCET method)
The increase is mostly due to increases on our home-based emissions calculations and increasing the months of heating to 6 months of the year. We have also increased communication services, domestic travel, activities of our organisation as well as an increase in our staff.
As a home-based organisation, we use Sustainable Scotland Network Reporting Guidance to calculate our staff’s electricity and heating usage based on hours worked from home. We also included water usage applying 2023 Defra conversion factors. We recognise that water is still being used at people’s homes.
Our staff full time equivalent (FTE) increased from 11.18 to 12.03. The average carbon emissions per FTE staff member is 11,913 kgCO2 which is 51% more than in 2022.
It is our aim to minimise our carbon footprint as much as possible, however as it happens with any other organisation, we still have a residual carbon footprint. We offset, using the Carbon Coalition, 143 tonnes of CO2 for our 2023 carbon
footprint.
Our scopes
Scope 1: We are a home-based organisation so we do not have any direct scope 1 emissionsScope 2: We calculate our staff heating, electricity and lighting use based on home-working calculations
Scope 3: We calculate our travel (staff and board), our water use (based on home-working calculations) and our supply chain emissions (based on the HESCET method)
| Carbon Summary | Staff (FTE) | Total carbon emissions (kgCO2) | Carbon emissions per FTE (kgCO2/FTE) | Income per annum £ | Carbon emissions per unit of income (kgCO2/£) |
| 2023 | 12.03 | 143,373 | 11,913 | 925,469 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 11.18 | 88,010 | 7,869 | 837,426 | 0.11 |
| % increase/ decrease |
8% | 63% | 51% | 11% | 47% |
| Breakdown of our carbon | KgCO2 | % |
| Scope 2 | 38,847 | 27% |
| Scope 3 | 104,526 | 73% |
| Travel | 2,409 | 2% |
| Supply Chain | 102,100 | 98% |
| Water | 17 | 0.02% |
| Total | 143,373 | 100% |
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