Exclusive Collection Celebrates B Corp Recertification With 17.5% Score Increase

Exclusive Collection, the UK’s first B Corp-certified hotel group, has published its latest Impact Report. The report underlines how the Collection continues to use its hotels and estates as platforms for positive impact, with clear gains across governance, biodiversity, employee wellbeing, and community outreach.

The B Corp recertification reflects not only operational excellence but also the collective effort of hotel teams, supplier partners, guests, and members. Key highlights from the year April 2024 to March 2025 include:

• The Reeds at South Lodge launched: a biophilic lodge development featuring a wild swimming lake, proving a hit with guests and attracting new, diverse, water-based wildlife

• Across the estates, a focus on carbon sequestration led to the reintroduction of habitats and hedgerows through a partnership with Land App

• Through OLIO, 6,773 meals were redistributed to local communities, avoiding 12,160 kg of CO₂ emissions

• Over £20,000 donated to charity, and each of the 850 team members at Exclusive Collection received a charity day to support a cause of their choice

• Energy reduction efforts led to a 17.7% decrease in total kWh and a 3.30% reduction in water usage, saving 3,550 m³ of water

• Over 100 placements were carried out with schools and colleges to explore careers in spa, wellness, and hospitality

As well as highlighting the past year’s gain, the report also headlines with Exclusive Collection’s B Corp recertification score. The group achieved a B Corp score of 94.4, up from 80.3 — a 17.5% increase with key areas of improvement:

• Governance: +15% uplift in transparency and accountability

• Workers: +14% improvement in wellness and inclusion

• Community: +22% growth in local sourcing and charitable giving

• Environment: +28% increase in sustainable practices

• Customers: +2% improvement in ethical marketing and social impact

Exclusive Collection’s ongoing commitment to sustainability is framed around four strategic goals with measurements in place around reducing water consumption, becoming carbon positive on Scope 1 and 2 by 2026, improving biodiversity metric and a focus on people, social impact, and community engagement.

Danny Pecorelli, Managing Director, comments: “The foundations we put down when we became a B Corp in 2021 are taking root now. These early initiatives gave us a baseline that now enables us to track and measure progress, making our sustainability ambitions through to 2027 fully quantifiable. We’ve got a clear roadmap, and it’s led us to a fantastic new score of 94.4. This huge increase is testament to our brilliant team who live our values and use our business as a force for good every day.”

Exclusive Collection is a family-owned collection of country house hotels, spas, golf, cookery school, and a pub and was founded in 1981. Overseen by Danny Pecorelli, Exclusive Collection is one of the most respected companies in the UK hospitality sector: the UK’s first B Corp hotel company - Michelin star restaurants - a Chefs’ Academy that is encouraging new talent to the sector and numerous awards for its meetings and events proposition.  

About Exclusive Collection 

Eat well, sleep well, do you well and take a breath from the everyday in beautiful surroundings. Exclusive Collection are proudly leading the way as the first B Corp accredited, family-owned collection of country house hotels, spas, golf, cookery school, and a pub thrown in for good measure. Exclusive Collection was founded in 1981. The group includes: Fanhams Hall, Lainston House with Season Cookery School, The Manor House with golf club and The Castle Inn, Pennyhill Park with spa, Royal Berkshire, South Lodge with spa and Midlands outpost Ansty Hall.