What sustainability means to us
Sustainability has always been important to us. For nearly 150 years, we have been working closely with the best suppliers and growers to offer great-value wines to our members – and we want to continue doing that for the next 150. This means we need to do much more.
The world is changing fast, with ever-increasing pressures from an unpredictable climate, biodiversity loss, new legislation, worker exploitation, increasing prices and a fickle job market. Many growers are already facing significant challenges from climate change, which impacts harvests, wine quality and, ultimately, price. To continue to thrive, we must take care of the natural world that we need to grow our grapes, as well as the passionate people we need to make and transport our wine to members’ doors.
That’s why we have created a sustainability plan with a series of ambitious goals. We’re committed to making sure that everything we do at The Society, across all aspects of the business, is good for the people we work with, good for the products we sell and, above all, good for the planet.
Acting on sustainability is not only the right thing to do, it makes clear business sense. We’re planning ahead to ensure the long-term prosperity of The Society, so we can continue to offer our members great wines for many years to come.
Sustainability is a wide-reaching concept, so we’ve broken it down into five areas:
Our focus areas
A fuller breakdown of the five key areas of our sustainability plan, what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.

Acting on climate
We minimise our climate footprint, from the vineyard to our home, and then onwards to yours
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Protecting and regenerating our environment
We drive action among producers to protect and regenerate the natural environment and strive for a world free of waste
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Sourcing responsibly and ethically
We buy with integrity, working to improve the lives of workers in our supply chain and minimise our environmental impact
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Caring for all our people
We foster a Wine Society for all, from grape to glass – ensuring care, fairness and respect for colleagues, members and people throughout our supply chain
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Inspiring action
We cannot do this alone. That’s why we invest in building knowledge and collaboration among members, suppliers and the wider wine industry, so that together we can accelerate action on sustainability
Find out moreMeet our sustainability team

Our sustainability plan is not a standalone project: it’s something that needs to be infused through everything The Wine Society does, becoming a mindset and a part of everyone’s role. Dom, our director of sustainability and social impact, has overall responsibility and accountability for our sustainability plan, and has been involved in sustainability for most of his 20-year career, including ten years in international development. Dom joins us from leading consultancy Sancroft.

Simon has been at The Society for more than a decade, heading our Tastings Team before moving into our Buying Department. Now head of wine sustainability, Simon works with our suppliers to encourage and accelerate collaboration and improving sustainability throughout our wine supply chain. It’s important we support, enable and encourage the growers with whom we work, and Simon’s experience across the wine industry makes him the ideal person for the job.

A name and a voice many members will be familiar with, Isobel led our Member Services team for 26 years before taking up her new role to focus on the people-based goals of our sustainability plan. Isobel’s focus is making The Society a more inclusive organisation that represents all of our members, the organisation’s values, the health and wellbeing of our employees and efforts in the wider community such as supporting charities, fundraising and our new training and mentorship schemes.
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