Our Story
Established in 2000, Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) are leaders in sustainability and social inclusion. Our mission is to inspire, challenge and facilitate businesses to bring about a sustainable, low carbon economy and more inclusive society where everyone thrives.
BITCI is a trusted adviser in the four pillars of Sustainability – Economic, Environmental, Social, and Governance (EESG), ensuring our extensive network of businesses builds capacity, ambition and leadership.
Economic: capturing the company’s approach to creating a positive and sustainable economic impact on the local community, society, and the environment by responsibly managing its operations and supply chain.
Environmental: capturing the company’s approach to responsibly managing its total environmental footprint across its operations and supply chain.
Social: capturing the company’s approach to engaging with and addressing the needs of key social stakeholders including local communities, colleagues, suppliers, representative bodies and greater society.
Governance; assessing the structures that provide the foundations for economic, environmental and social pillars through purpose, governing body oversight, stakeholder engagement and decision-making structures.
Our theory of change is to work individually and collectively with members to drive, initiate and collaborate to embed sustainability across all aspects of their business. Over the last 25 years, BITCI has seen the desire by businesses to become sustainable grow exponentially. The visible effects of the climate and nature crises together with diverse social issues is driving businesses to respond to the demands of investors, staff, customers and governments. By making this shift and adopting a holistic approach to sustainability with clear ambitions and targets to address a business’s carbon footprint and social footprint such as inclusivity and fair labour practices is becoming a business imperative. BITCI knows that sustainable businesses are successful businesses.
BITCI is a non-profit company bringing objectivity and passion to our collective purpose.
BITCI is led by CEO Tomás Sercovich and has one of the strongest board of directors in Ireland.
BITCI’s Patron is President, Michael. D. Higgins.
“We believe in long term partnership with members. We aim to collaborate, inspire and share so mutually beneficial relationships can flourish as member’s embed sustainability into their business models and we earn our place as their Trusted Advisers.“
Our Values
We have the courage to do the right thing
We challenge ourselves and everyone we work with to build a better future
We have each other’s back
We build each other up, we listen and we share our expertise
We’re ahead of the curve
We always stay one step ahead. We inspire others to look beyond the horizon
We’re all in
We believe in our purpose and we never give up
We know our stuff
We’ve been leading the sustainability agenda since 2000.
Find out more about our work
Leadership and Capacity Building
Upskill organisational capacity for sustainability.
Accelerate, The Business Pact on Climate and Nature
Our signatories demonstrate their collective commitment to tackle climate and nature crises.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Undertake activities to advance your DE&I strategy and outcomes.
Elevate, Inclusive Workplace Pledge
Our signatories demonstrate their collective commitment to creating inclusive workplaces.
