ROOTED for Charities
Free, Private Carbon Reporting for the Charity Sector
From January 2026, the new Charities SORP encourages all charities to disclose their environmental impact, and requires it for those with income above £15 million. Major funders including Arts Council England, the Wellcome Trust, and the National Lottery Community Fund increasingly expect carbon data from grantees.
ROOTED gives your charity the tools to measure, understand, and reduce your carbon footprint, entirely on your own machine, at zero cost.
Preserve Donor Trust
Your beneficiary data, financial records, and operational details never leave your machine. No cloud accounts, no third-party data processors, no GDPR complications.
Meet Funder Requirements
Generate GHG Protocol compliant reports covering Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. CSRD-aligned disclosures and VSME Excel exports that satisfy grant reporting obligations.
Zero Cost to Your Mission
ROOTED is free for charities and non-profits under the PolyForm Noncommercial licence. No subscription, no per-user fees, no upsells. Every penny stays focused on your mission.
Why Charities Need Carbon Reporting Now
The landscape is shifting. Environmental reporting is moving from optional to expected across the UK charity sector.
SORP 2026 (effective January 2026) introduces a three-tier system. Charities with gross income above £15 million must explain how they are responding to environmental matters in their trustees' annual report. Smaller charities are explicitly encouraged to include sustainability disclosures, creating a soft expectation that will only grow.
Funders are leading the way. Arts Council England has made environmental responsibility an application requirement. The Wellcome Trust requires grant holders to have a method of calculating carbon emissions. The National Lottery Community Fund expects all applicants to consider their environmental impact. These are not future plans. They are current conditions.
Public contracts require carbon data. Charities delivering public sector services worth over £5 million per year must submit Carbon Reduction Plans under PPN 06/21. Even below that threshold, local authorities and government bodies increasingly ask for emissions evidence in procurement.
Two-thirds of UK charities still do not measure their carbon footprint. The primary barriers are cost, complexity, and data privacy concerns. ROOTED removes all three.
How ROOTED Helps
Charities handle sensitive beneficiary and donor data. ROOTED processes everything locally, with no cloud uploads and no third-party access. Your data stays on your machine.
Enterprise carbon platforms cost £2,500–15,000/year. ROOTED provides full Scope 1, 2, 3 coverage, AI guidance, and audit-ready reports at zero cost to charitable organisations.
No sustainability expertise needed. ROOTED's local AI helps you understand what to measure, scans your bills with OCR, and explains terms like Scope 3 and tCO2e in plain language.
Your beneficiary data stays on your machine. Always.
Good Stewardship Includes the Environment
Charities understand stewardship: of resources, of trust, of the communities they serve. Environmental responsibility is a natural extension of that duty. Carbon reporting is not separate from your mission. For most charities, climate change directly affects the people and places you exist to support.
ROOTED helps you take that first step: measure your impact honestly, understand where your emissions come from, and build a credible plan to reduce them, all without diverting charitable funds to expensive software platforms.
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