VSME reporting
A VSME report is a sustainability report prepared by small and medium-sized enterprises, following the Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard for SMEs (VSME), a simplified sustainability reporting framework. A VSME report makes your sustainability performance clear, showing clients, banks, suppliers and other stakeholders how you manage sustainability in your operations and the progress you have made toward your goals.
Publishing a VSME report sets your business apart as responsible, proactive, and forward-thinking in a market where many SMEs do not report at all.
Our approach
Together, we set ambitions for your report. We guide and advise you during the preparation of your report – from breaking down the reporting requirements into plain language, to organising your data in a way that makes sense for drafting the narratives. We work closely with your team and support you throughout the whole report creation process. We collaborate with software and design partners, so we can ensure every aspect of the report is fully managed.
Whether you are starting from scratch or building on an existing VSME/sustainability report, we help you create a sustainability report that genuinely reflects your company’s values and sustainability efforts.
If you want to report beyond the VSME standard, we can also help you create a more comprehensive report, which takes additional inspiration from other frameworks such as GRI and CSRD/ESRS. A VSME report also leads to a higher score for EcoVadis.
Why work with us?
- Practical and actionable: We translate complex standards into an insightful, decision-useful and forward-looking ESG-report.
- Integrated approach: We link VSME reporting with your (double) materiality assessment, ESG strategy and enterprise risk management.
- Aligned with regulations and stakeholder expectations: Our sustainability reporting approach ensures readiness for VSME reporting and upholding stakeholders expectations.
Our services
We offer a wide range of services, which can be tailor-made to your needs. These include:
- Analysis of the reporting landscape
- Conducting a (simplified) double materiality assessment to determine material topics for reporting
- Creating a report structure that is fit for purpose
- Performing a gap analysis to identify missing information and data
- Developing data and information collection templates and supporting in data collection and consolidation
- Drafting report content, together with your team
- Reviewing or ensuring compliance with the VSME-standard
- Managing the graphic design (concept development, implementation, preparation for publishing) with external partners[MK2]
- Providing advice for the next report including defining and developing actions for improvement in a roadmap.
If you are planning to develop a sustainability report in line with another reporting framework, for example CSRD/ESRS, GRI, ISSB/IFRS S1 & S2 or Integrated Reporting Framework, we can help you too. For more information, see this page.
Related case studies and blogs
Case studies
Blogs
- VSME – what is the voluntary sustainability reporting standard for SMEs?
- First step toward a voluntary EU sustainability reporting standard for SMEs
