Milk & Honey PR wins King’s Award for Sustainable Development

By AI, Created 10:42 AM UTC, May 20, 2026, /AGP/ – Milk & Honey PR has won The King’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development, a five-year honor that recognizes commercially successful, environmentally and socially beneficial business practices. The award highlights the London-based agency’s B Corp-certified model and its refusal to work with fossil fuel clients.

Why it matters: - The King’s Award is the UK’s most prestigious business honour. - The Sustainable Development category recognises organisations with commercially successful sustainability practices that benefit the environment, society and the economy. - The award validates Milk & Honey PR’s purpose-led communications model and could strengthen its standing with sustainability-focused clients. - The award is valid for five years, giving the agency a long-term mark of recognition.

What happened: - Milk & Honey PR won The King’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development on May 6, 2026. - His Majesty The King announced the award on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. - Milk & Honey is an independently owned, B Corp-certified strategic communications agency headquartered in London. - The agency also has offices in Munich, New York, San Francisco and Singapore.

The details: - The agency was founded to prove that doing good and doing well are not mutually exclusive. - Milk & Honey integrates a sustainability lens into its global communications work. - Founder, Group CEO and Chair Kirsty Leighton said the award belongs to clients, colleagues and organisations that believe business can be a force for good. - Milk & Honey is a signatory of the Clean Creatives Pledge and does not work with fossil fuel companies. - An internal mandate also refuses work with organisations that cause harm. - At least 25% of annual revenue over the past three years came from mandates where sustainability was the core brief or the client’s primary mission. - That share was 25% in 2022, 34% in 2023 and 28% in 2024. - The agency says the approach has helped build a client portfolio that includes sustainability-focused organisations. - Milk & Honey publishes an annual People, Purpose, Planet report to track its impact and share a model for other businesses. - Leighton was appointed Chair of the PRCA in 2025 and joined CEO Sarah Waddington CBE in the association’s first all-female leadership team. - Milk & Honey has more than 200 industry awards and nominations.

Between the lines: - The win gives public recognition to a commercial model that deliberately limits some clients to stay aligned with the agency’s values. - Milk & Honey is positioning sustainability not as a niche service but as a business advantage. - Leighton’s PRCA role suggests the agency wants influence beyond its own client work and into industry standards.

What’s next: - Milk & Honey wants to grow the share of revenue tied to sustainability-led mandates. - The company can now use The King’s Awards emblem in marketing materials and fly the award flag at its principal premises. - The agency is likely to keep using its impact reporting and sector advocacy to promote responsible communications.

The bottom line: - Milk & Honey’s win turns a values-based business strategy into a formal national endorsement.