Victoria Symons

Oct 14, 2024 | insidermedia.com | Victoria Symons

Victoria Symons, Partner at Cripps explores the challenges women face in achieving business parity, including gender bias, fundraising barriers, and balancing caregiving with careers. Achieving gender parity in mid-market businesses remains a pressing issue. Women still face many unique barriers including disparities in fundraising, male-dominated networks, and balancing carer responsibilities with career ambitions.

Jul 15, 2024 | cripps.co.uk | Victoria Symons

Home Thinking Applications are now open for our EmpowHer leadership programme Applications are now open for our EmpowHer leadership programme, designed to unlock the potential in female leaders. We are thrilled to announce the launch of the EmpowHer Leadership Programme, in association with WHN Group, a transformative initiative designed exclusively for female business leaders. Less than 20% of SMEs are led by women in the UK, a figure unchanged in the last decade. Getting funding is often...

Jul 11, 2024 | cripps.co.uk | Victoria Symons

The UK and EU regimes around sustainability in the supply chain have, so far, mirrored each other closely. The EU’s Illegal Timber Regulations have been assimilated into UK law by virtue of the GB Illegal Timber Regulations. Both regulations aim to prevent illegal deforestation in relation to timber based products in the EU supply chain, by:prohibiting the use of illegally harvested timber; andimposing due diligence and reporting requirements on a business’s supply chain.

Jun 6, 2024 | cripps.co.uk | Victoria Symons

Skip to content Home Thinking The changing face of directors’ duties It’s been a busy few months for NGOs, with each of the Commonwealth Climate & Law Initiative (CCLI) and Social Value International (SVI) commissioning independent legal opinions on the scope of directors’ duties in the context of sustainability-related risk (SRR). While the opinions are not legally binding, they are authoritative and provide helpful recommendations to minimize risk. In March 2024, the CCLI published an...

Apr 26, 2024 | cripps.co.uk | Victoria Symons

Home Thinking Uncorking sustainability: ESG challenges and opportunities in wine Whether you speak to individuals, families or businesses, chances are that ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) related issues will pop up at some point. That’s hardly surprising; flick through a couple of pages of any newspaper and you’ll spot issues as diverse as climate change, social movements and green washing. Recent research we carried out shows that 40% of boards, and 70% of high net worth families...