Project Positive & Community Impact
Project Positive is our in-house initiative designed to help our clients build sustainability and social value into every stage of their workplace transformation.
What is Project Positive?
Project Positive is Sketch Studios’ structured approach to embedding environmental and social responsibility into our work.
It brings together:
- Carbon removal strategies
- Sustainable procurement frameworks
- Volunteering and charitable partnerships
- Community engagement
The goal is simple: to make sure your project delivers more than good design. With Project Positive, it becomes a platform for real, lasting impact.
Carbon Removal: Going Beyond Offsetting
For every major project, Sketch invests in proven carbon removal initiatives – projects that actively take carbon out of the atmosphere, rather than just reducing future emissions.
Examples include:
- Biochar production
- Enhanced weathering techniques
- Direct air capture technology
We also offer our clients the chance to match our contribution, making the whole project truly carbon neutral from start to finish.
This isn’t about greenwashing. It’s a commitment to real, science-backed climate solutions.
Designing for Low Impact
Carbon removal is important. But reducing emissions in the first place is even better.
As part of Project Positive, we prioritise:
- Reuse and refurbishment of existing furniture
- Low-embodied carbon materials and finishes
- Efficient, consolidated delivery planning
- Modular and flexible designs that last longer
We use the UK Green Building Council’s (UKGBC) framework to measure embodied carbon, and the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to track our reduction goals.
Community First
We don’t just aim to reduce environmental impact – we want to create social value too. That means playing an active role in the communities where we live and work.
Through Project Positive, we offer:
- Volunteering days for our team and clients
- Community engagement sessions and design advice
- Furniture donations to schools, charities and shelters
- Participation in fundraising and awareness events
Whether it’s a litter pick in a local park, hosting a design workshop for young people, or helping furnish a youth centre, we use our skills to give back.
How It Works
ESG Support for Clients
Many of our clients have Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals – but aren’t sure how to bring them to life through furniture and fit out.
Project Positive offers a way to:
- Align project delivery with ESG reporting metrics
- Generate tangible community value and track impact
- Demonstrate low-carbon and circular procurement
- Create wellbeing-focused, inclusive work environments
We’ll work with you to identify shared priorities, define clear outcomes, and report on impact – so your sustainability story is one you can tell with pride.
Let’s Leave Something Positive Behind
We see every workplace as an opportunity to do better – for people, for planet, and for future generations.
With Project Positive, you don’t have to choose between aesthetics and impact, budget and ethics, speed and sustainability. You can have all of it – and more.
If you’re ready to deliver carbon-neutral workplace projects, embed real social value into your design process, and create a space that’s as responsible as it is beautiful, then let’s talk.
