Change by Drake & Morgan

Introduction

What is Change by Drake & Morgan?

To implement our ‘Change’ project, we reviewed over fifty areas of impact across our business & supply chain to identify opportunities & any points of concern. As a result, we have identified three focus areas for “Change by Drake & Morgan” & our report shows exactly how we plan to bring positive change to these areas:

People
Community
Environment

This report allows us to be transparent & will ensure we are held to account by our teams, our partners & our wonderful customers.

Download the report here

Change Programme Highlights

£130,000 raised for charity partner Maggie’s through customers micro donations & our teams efforts including running marathons, 10k’s & cycling challenges.

Awarded Sunday Times Best Places to Work employer for 2025 (the second year in a row) & an 'excellent' rating improving our employee happiness score to 84%

Reduced our group carbon intensity (tCO2e per £m) from 184.5 to 170.5

Swapped our bread flour & beef burgers for regeneratively farmed produce

Deployed a green pension & investment solution to all 500+ employees.

Saved a further 560,000 kWH & 110 tonnes of CO2e using technology to control utilities consumption.

Sent zero of our controlled waste to landfill, with 45% being used to create energy and 53% recycled.

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Regenerative Farming

Working with our supply chain

Throughout the years D&M has operated we have always tried to source responsibly; and we have now begun to onboard more products each year that farm using regenerative standards, this revolution against mass industrial production supports biodiversity, promotes soil health, wildlife growth & waterway protection & can now be tasted within the sourdoughs, flatbreads, buns & all beef burgers on our menus. We are committed to seeking suppliers who share the same values & ethics as us & who understand our social & environmental requirements.

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Carbon Footprint

Drake & Morgan remain proud members of the Zero Carbon Forum a not-for-profit hospitality focused group enabling business to achieve net zero goals as pace through collaboration.

Through the work with their team over the past 3 years we have been able to put a clear action plan in place to reduce our impact, and this has delivered a significant improvement in our Scope 3 emissions year on year into 2025 of more than 800tonnes of CO2e, there is still a long way to go but this is a step in the right direction!

Find out more about the Zero Carbon Forum here

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Policies & reports

Other policies & reports

Alongside our “Change by Drake & Morgan” report, there are various other policies in place across our business. You can download & review our Gender Pay Gap report, our policy on Modern Slavery & our Privacy Policy below. If you have any questions on these policies or any of our reports, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Gender pay gap report Modern slavery policy Privacy Policy

What people say about D&M

Testimonials

As we continue to grow, we feel it’s the time to formalise & document the steps we’ve taken & will take to ensure our incredible team & lovely partners are supported whilst we ensure our environmental footprint is as light as possible. This is why "Change by Drake & Morgan" was created; we are on a journey with lots to do, but we hope this report will give some insight into our impact targets & how we aim to improve further through the coming months & years.

Jillian MacLean MBE, Drake & Morgan Founder & CEO

What people say about D&M

Testimonials

For a company of 550 people, it is a massive achievement for Drake & Morgan to be on track to raise £100,000 for Maggie’s in just one year. It’s a testament to how passionate & hard working your staff are across the whole of the D&M team. Thanks to your incredible long-term support, Maggie’s have been able to support thousands of people living with cancer.

Dame Laura Lee DBE, Chief Executive of Maggie’s Centres

What people say about D&M

Testimonials

Drake & Morgan have acted swiftly & decisively & within the first year of taking meaningful action, they have completed their full carbon footprint, adopted a net zero plan & have taken some impressive first steps towards this. 100% of their energy is now from renewable sources & they made changes within their menus such as sourcing regeneratively produced flour from Wildfarmed for breads. It’s great to see such strong progress & a pleasure to share their net zero journey with them.

Bob Gordon, Director at Zero Carbon Forum