The Good Business Charter (GBC) is an accreditation scheme that measures an organisation’s behaviour over 10 components:
- Real Living Wage
- Fairer hours and contracts
- Employee well-being
- Employee representation
- Diversity and inclusion
- Environmental responsibility
- Pay fair tax
- Commitment to customers
- Ethical sourcing
- Prompt payment to suppliers
York signed up to the GBC accreditation scheme in June 2021.
We were the first city in the UK to sign up to the charter
GBC accredited Organisations
The following organisations in York are GBC accredited.
This list was accurate in December 2025 and will be updated every quarter.
If you would like your organisation added or removed from our list, contact the Economic Growth Team.
- Accommodation and food service activities
- Administrative and support service activities
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Education
- Financial and insurance activities
- Health and Social Work
- Information and communication
- Manufacturing
- Other service activities
- Professional, scientific and technical activities
- Public administration and defence
- Real estate activities
- Retail
- Transportation and storage
- Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
Accommodation and food service activities
- YorGuest Ltd
Administrative and support service activities
- Brightsparks Agency Ltd
- Cozens Software Solutions Limited
- Grounded Human Resources Ltd
- Gundog HR & Development
- h2h resources ltd
- Lillywhite Consultancy Limited
- Make It York
- McMillan and Associates Ltd
- New Light CIC
- Partners PR Ltd
- Stroud Resourcing
- Transparent Design
- Visiting North Yorkshire
Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Aesthetica Magazine Ltd
Education
- Circus Skills York CIC
- HYEN
- Innovate Educate Ltd
- Tang Hall SMART CIC
- The University of YorkUniversity of York St John
- York College
Financial and insurance activities
- Aviva
- Leeds Building Society
- Peppercorns Accountancy
- TSB
Health and Social Work
- Acts 435
- Benenden Healthcare Society
- York Foodbank
- York Podiatry Ltd
Information and communication
- Boxxe Ltd
- Cursive (Plump Ltd)
- See Green Media Ltd.
- TaxWatch
- The Big Ideas Collective
- The Distance Agency Ltd
- United by Design
- We Are HA - Managed Hosting Architects
- Xandyr
- Zero Hours Justice
Manufacturing
- Tele-Products (trading as First Stop Safety)
- York Drinks Ltd
Other service activities
- Family Fund Business Services
- Institute of Directors
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust
- The Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York
- The Company of Smiles
- Two Ridings Community Foundation
- York Minster Fund
- York Mumbler
Professional, scientific and technical activities
- AI in Schools
- beefound.agency ltd
- Beyond Accounting York Limited
- Change Accountants
- Clement Leadership Development
- Fulprint Ltd
- Hairy Cow Copywriting
- halinajaroszewska.com
- Ink Gardener Copywriting
- Kaizen car care
- LEaF Translations
- M & A Solicitors
- Merisis Technology Ltd
- MORF-Bio
- Mortimer Engineering Services Limited
- Network Ventures Financial Strategies
- New Beginnings Horses
- PatientMind
- Pinnacle Conservation Ltd
- Pro-Development (UK) Limited
- Professional Paper Supplies Ltd
- Torque Law LLP
- Unusual Projects
- Veritau Public Sector Limited
- Yorwealth Ltd
Public administration and defence
- City of York Council
Real estate activities
- Spark York C.I.C
- York Science Park Ltd
Retail
- Avorium Limited
- Model Railway Magic
- Richer Sounds
- The Group Company
- The Potions Cauldron Ltd
- The Puzzling World of Professor Kettlestring
Transportation and storage
- City Cruises
Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
- Modern Water UK Ltd
- SealStop
Real Living Wage
Paying the Real Living Wage is one of the 10 commitments of the Good Business Charter.
All GBC accredited employers are real living wage employers.
See details of other organisations that are accredited as real living wage employers in York.
Also see
Economic Growth Team
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