Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance
At Babble, we understand that as your organisation grows, your positive environmental and social impact should grow with you. Therefore, we are linking our strategy and business objectives to our vision of a more sustainable world and striving for a culture of sustainable development.
Babble is working with The Sustainability Group using the FuturePlus framework to assess our impact and contributions in a variety of environmental, social and governance fields. In doing so we are able to take more effective action to tackle climate change and safeguard the environment.
Measuring our sustainability ambition score and actual score across five key areas:
Current Achievements and report highlights
Babble’s ‘Ambition’ score has also risen, from 271/500 in January 2022, to 327/500 today. It is a testament to Babble’s willingness to revisit the ambitions set during the initial assessment and push for stronger positive impact objectives.
Becoming a reseller
Formerly known as IP solutions, we began in 2001 as an IT Dealer, before transforming into Babble in 2008 and becoming a full-service reseller in 2011. This allowed us to take ownership of service delivery and deliver a faster, tailored service for customers.
Employees: 7
Partnerships: IP Solutions
Locations: 1
Cloud adoption
Babble set the roadmap for businesses looking to migrate to the cloud – improving flexibility, reducing overheads, and making businesses more agile.
Employees: 16
Locations: 1
Investment secured
With fresh investment from LDC, we laid the groundwork for scaling our services, ensuring our customers would benefit from faster innovation, stronger support, and future-ready infrastructures.
Employees: 36
Locations: 1
Strategic growth begins
Our growth strategy began with two new acquisitions, expanding on our talent and capabilities across voice, connectivity, and IT support, as well as bringing two new locations.
Employees: 36
Locations: 3
Aquisitions: Direct Response Plus, Arden Group
Industry recognition and regional reach
As our team and reach grew, so did our industry-specific expertise. We became a partner of ABTA, recognising our commitment to deliver enhanced communications for the travel sector.
Employees: 81
Locations: 5
Partnerships: Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA)
Doubling down on connectivity
New acquisitions meant new services. From hosted voice to secure data networks, our customers gained access to more powerful, integrated cloud solutions.
Employees: 128
Locations: 7
Aquisitions: Diva Telecom, Lake Technologies, Corporate Management Telecom Ltd, Shape Networks
A future-ready platform
Doubling on the previous years’ acquisitions, we extended our Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) product portfolio to help our customers elevate customer experience for their own clients.
Employees: 220
Locations: 8
Aquisitions: Ultracomms, Activ, 81G Blue, Sesui, Concert, 8020, DCS Ltd, Halo Communications
Welcome team South Africa
Our expertise and technology offering continued to expand, with our acquisitions bringing additional specialisms in Microsoft and enterprise cyber security and a new team in South Africa.
Employees: 394
Locations: 10
Aquisitions: Active, ADSI, Yorkshire Telecom, Biscuit IT, Berry Telecom, Cavendish Communications Group Ltd, Activereach, Airphone Telecom Solutions, Vivio
National reach, local presence
We became our largest team yet. With almost 500 people based across the UK and South Africa, we’re able to support our customers, wherever they are.
Employees: 484
Locations: 11
Aquisitions: Avandda, Corporate Wardair Ltd (CWL), Stonegate, TechQuarters, Cloudstream Technology, Midland Comms, Talktech, Unicomm, NCE
Your trusted cloud advisor
With 15,000 customers, and a 500-strong team across nine UK hubs and South Africa, we are now one of the UK’s fastest growing cloud solutions providers. Everything we do, now and in the future, is with one goal in mind – to help small and mid-sized businesses become more successful through cloud technology.