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People, purpose, planet
The spend is mandated. The impact is not.
Syntropy Earth designs and runs social responsibility and social impact programmes for organisations already carrying an obligation: a mandated budget, a commitment handed down from head office, a workforce exposed to heat, a reporting window opening under BRSR, GRI or the Sustainable Development Goals. Design first, delivery behind it, ending in an impact number that holds up in front of a board, wherever the board sits.
Will this year's CSR money still be yours on 31 March?
The calculator computes the Section 135 obligation for FY 2026-27, runs the commencement test on every project, and returns three numbers: spent, protected in the company's own Unspent CSR Account, and at risk of transfer out. Board approval alone does not commence a project, and that one test moves real money.
Built on the Companies Act 2013 and the CSR Rules as amended. Sources on the page.
Every engagement here has a fixed figure and a named deliverable agreed before anything begins. Nothing is priced on the page, because nothing is priced before a conversation.
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The entry project
One piece of work, tied to something you have said out loud. An unspent CSR position that needs a defensible plan before March. A partner longlist that needs a screen. A programme that needs its measurement designed before it runs.
About three weeksScoped and finished, not open-ended.
One deliverableNamed in writing before the fee is.
The point is to get one real thing done, on your side of the table, and let it speak for what comes next.
Social responsibility programme design, then delivery. Mapping with the community the money is meant to reach, system design, partner architecture screened under IPSS, a pilot with the instrumentation already in place, and the outcome written up in a form an assurer accepts.
Design, then deliveryYour team runs it, or a retainer does.
Reports cleanlyBRSR, GRI and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, from day one.
Most organisations reach this through an entry project. Some arrive with the budget already committed and a date on it.
A brand manager sees one brand to sell. A product owner sees one system to build. Syntropy Earth looks at what comes before either of them, and at what is still standing after.
BeforeThe people, the ground and the money a decision lands on.
The briefOne brand to sell. One system to build.
AfterWhether the three still connect, five years on.
There is a second practice, for launches, portfolios and commercial plans, built on nine years of commercial work in global markets. Brand and Growth
A programme is built, not commissioned.
Six steps sit between a budget being approved and an outcome being reportable. Every one of them produces something you keep.
Mapping
Ethnographic work with the community the programme is meant to serve, plus a read of what you already run. Most organisations are further along than their reporting suggests, and the gap between the two is usually the first finding.
You keep: a map of the ground and a register of what already exists.
System design
The forces sitting behind the beneficiary, and where an intervention changes the system rather than the symptom. CAST, the Climate Access Stress Test, runs here: it scores four access conditions across a full climate year and ranks what breaks first, so allocation follows evidence rather than instinct.
You keep: the stress test result and the allocation logic behind it.
Programme creation
Theory of change, partner architecture screened under IPSS, fund flow, and the measurement that has to exist before anything runs. This is where activity counts stop being the plan.
You keep: the programme document, the partner screen, and the measurement design.
Pilot
A bounded first run with the instrumentation already in place, so what you learn is evidence rather than anecdote. Small enough to change, real enough to count.
You keep: the first outcome data and the record of what was changed and why.
Scaling
Extension to further sites or cohorts, with community ownership designed in rather than hoped for. The pilot's instrumentation travels with it.
You keep: a programme that runs without the person who designed it in the room.
Impact documentation
The outcome written up against BRSR, GRI and the relevant SDGs, in a form an assurer accepts. Not a narrative of what was done, a record of what changed.
You keep: the number, and the audit trail underneath it.
Going live in October 2026
The people who run these budgets. Hear what they have to say.
A conversation series with social responsibility and CSR heads, owner-operators, district health officers and the researchers who sharpen the argument. Forty minutes on what stops money turning into outcomes people can see. No pitch, ever.
If you run a CSR budget, a foundation, a district health office or a programme on the ground, the invitation is open. On camera or off. Either way it shapes what gets built.
Invitations go out from the end of September. Episodes appear here as each guest signs off on the recording. Nothing is published without their say-so.
Climate change is a healthcare story.
The World Health Organization calls climate change the single biggest health threat facing humanity. Every programme here runs through that same physical reality: heat that pulls people out of work and out of care, water that cuts the routes medicine travels, air that raises the baseline load on every employer. Read that first and a programme allocates correctly. The full argument
A budget that needs a programme. A commitment with a date on it. Forty minutes to find out which.
The first conversation is simple: what you are facing, and whether this is the right place to solve it. If it is not, you will be told so, and pointed somewhere better.