The request arrives
A bank renewing your facility, a large customer running supplier due diligence, or an insurer sends a sustainability questionnaire. Often several, all different.
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Ga naar de hoofdinhoudYour bank, your largest customer or your insurer has started asking for sustainability data. The VSME is the standard written so that a small or medium-sized company can answer them once, properly, and without being pulled into full CSRD reporting. This course takes you through the whole standard — Basic Module, Comprehensive Module, Annex II — and out the other side with a finished report. Practitioner-led by Dr. Ross Kurinko, human-in-the-loop on every learning route.
The VSME is the EU's voluntary sustainability reporting standard for non-listed micro, small and medium-sized undertakings. It exists because SMEs were being asked for CSRD-grade data they were never in scope to produce. This course is a complete, practitioner-built path through it — built on 15+ years of ESG-reporting practice and delivered inside the AI-powered LRA Study Studio, with real human support on every route.
A bank renewing your facility, a large customer running supplier due diligence, or an insurer sends a sustainability questionnaire. Often several, all different.
Full ESRS reporting is disproportionate and expensive. Ignoring the request risks the facility, the contract or the renewal. Answering each questionnaire separately never ends.
One proportionate report, built to a recognised EU standard — Basic Module alone, or Basic plus Comprehensive when your counterparties need more.
The next questionnaire gets one answer: the report. Each year you refresh the data rather than start again — which is what modules 11 to 13 of this course build.
Every Basic Module disclosure B1 to B11 and every Comprehensive Module disclosure C1 to C9, plus Annex II for banks and investors. Most VSME training stops at "there are two modules". This one works through each datapoint.
Ontworpen door Dr. Ross Kurinko — GRI Certified Global Trainer, PhD, University of Cambridge, 15+ jaar werkzaam bij FTSE 100- en Fortune Global 500-openbaarmakingen — en aangeboden door ervaren ESG-practitioners. Geen externe contentlicentiegevers.
Three full modules are dedicated to running the cycle: launching and planning it, collecting and validating the data, then reviewing, approving, issuing and maintaining the report. That is the part most courses leave out.
Bij elke route — inclusief Guided Flex — kunt u de AI-thread overdragen aan een echte medewerker. Asynchrone ondersteuning van het LRA-team, of geplande live tijd met Dr. Kurinko, mentoren of trainer. Nooit uitsluitend AI.
Hetzelfde curriculum, verschillende ritmes en doelgroepen. Kies wat past bij uw rol, uw schema en uw budget. Meertalig: inline AI-vertaling naar 20+ talen in het gehele curriculum, bovenop elk format.
General basis for preparation, the environmental metrics and the workforce metrics. This is the module a bank or customer questionnaire is normally satisfied by.
Strategy, transition and climate risk, deeper workforce and human-rights information, and the two disclosures lenders ask for most: sector revenues and governance gender diversity.
It does not require an ESRS-style double materiality assessment. The course uses a proportionate relevance and applicability process suited to the Voluntary Standard.
It does not require independent assurance. Information should still be supported, reviewed and verifiable — and the course builds the evidence file that makes it so.
It does not require every sustainability report to be public. An undertaking may prepare a controlled report for identified business counterparties.
It does not make every sustainability questionnaire mandatory. The purpose, protected status, exact Annex II mapping and any separate legal or contractual basis must be assessed before the response decision.
Flexibel leren via de AI-aangedreven LRA Study Studio, met gestructureerde assessments en gespecialiseerde ondersteuning.
Everything in Guided Flex, plus scheduled live online sessions, cohort-based progression, mentor-reviewed exercises and peer learning around real VSME reporting problems — most of them shared across every SME in the room.
Everything in Guided Flex, plus direct mentor sessions with Dr. Ross Kurinko or a senior LRA mentor (subject to mentor availability), personalised guidance and line-by-line review of your draft VSME disclosures.
Everything in 1:1 Expert Mentorship, plus your existing working documents are reviewed alongside the mentor sessions — data collection workbook · evidence file · draft VSME disclosures · the counterparty questionnaires you are trying to answer. Mentor + practitioner-consultant in one engagement, working with your real cycle via email, file-share and scheduled mentor sessions under NDA. Studio platform stays standard — your documents are not uploaded to the platform; we work them as files.
Bespoke VSME programmes for SME finance and operations teams, and for accountancy firms, audit practices and consultancies setting up a VSME service line for their SME clients. Delivered online, on-site, in London, or as a hybrid programme. Price on request.
The VSME shares its logic — and much of its data — with the full European standards. If your company crosses into CSRD scope, or your clients do, the Certified ESRS (CSRD) course picks up exactly where this one stops: double materiality, all 12 ESRS and assurance readiness. Complete this course on an engaged route and Alumni Club pricing applies to it.
Het meest geschikt voor: finance and operations people in an SME who have to fit this around the day job.
Het meest geschikt voor: people who want to see how other SMEs are answering the same questionnaires.
Het meest geschikt voor: anyone producing a first VSME report on a deadline set by a lender or a customer.
Het meest geschikt voor: SME finance teams reporting together — and advisory firms building a VSME service line.
You work a manufacturing group with a foreign subsidiary through the whole cycle — and a second, eight-person case for the micro reliefs. Every module ends in a real deliverable: a register, a workbook, a memo, a mapped questionnaire. Not a multiple-choice quiz.
Directe Mentortijd met Dr. Kurinko (1:1 Expert Mentorship), live onlinesessies met senior LRA-mentors (Live Cohort), of on-site/hybride sessies met een senior trainer (Corporate). De vorm van contact verschilt; de menselijke aanwezigheid blijft (online of Canary Wharf na afspraak).
A frontier-model AI Tutor pinned to every page — translate, simplify, exemplify, ask a follow-up. When text isn't enough, push-to-talk video walkthrough by Dr. Kurinko's official AI avatar. Not "chatgpt" with an ESG hat on.
The course is built around formal checkpoints — report assembly checkpoints, a project launch gate, a draft readiness gate and a final completion gate — plus 12 knowledge-check questions per module at a 75% pass mark. You cannot drift to the end with gaps.
You have to decide whether to report at all, how far to go, and what to sign. Get to working depth fast — the eligibility test, the Basic-versus-Comprehensive decision, what the report commits you to, and the ability to direct, challenge and sign off the work without becoming the person who does it.
In most SMEs this lands on finance. Leave with a reporting project you can run the way you run a year-end: a charter, a datapoint register, a data dictionary, review gates and a management representation pack.
You own the source data — energy, waste, water, headcount, accidents, training, pay. Learn exactly which figure each disclosure wants, on which boundary, and how to evidence it so nobody re-derives it next year.
Master the drafting itself: the disclosure index, the omission log, the narrative claim register, and the difference between verifiable and assured — with the honest-language drills that keep an unassured report clean.
The strongest commercial case on this page. VSME reporting is a repeatable, standardised engagement across your whole client base — and the course gives you the templates, gates and method notes to deliver it at scale rather than reinventing it per client.
You are on the other side of the request. Learn what you may legitimately ask a protected supplier for, what falls outside the cap, and how to design a supplier request that gets answered instead of declined.
Bridge from theory to professional practice on the standard that the largest population of European companies will actually use. Graduate with a recognised LRA credential, a finished worked report and a network of senior practitioners.
GRI Certified Global Trainer, PhD, University of Cambridge, 15+ jaar op FTSE 100- en Fortune Global 500-publicaties. Geen licentie van derden.
Applicability matrix · relevance screen · boundary memo · omission log · energy and emissions workbook with factor register · water, waste and biodiversity registers · climate risk register · evidence register · disclosure index · release manifest.
The nine-row cap card for undertakings with 10 employees or fewer, the twenty-three-row matrix above that, a request-purpose questionnaire, a protected-undertaking self-declaration and a model response letter.
Asynchrone LRA-teamondersteuning op Guided Flex; geplande live tijd met Dr. Kurinko, mentoren of trainer op 1:1 Mentorship, Live Cohort en Corporate-trajecten.
Zwakke onderwerpen verschijnen automatisch in een gericht revisieplan — lacunes sluit vóórdat ze zichtbaar worden in uw echte rapport.
Markeer een zin in een les en de AI Tutor vertaalt deze direct in meer dan 20 talen — Arabisch, Mandarijn, Hindi, Frans, Duits, Japans, Koreaans, Spaans en meer. Standaarden blijven; taalbarrière verdwijnt.
Eenmaal per jaar, hybride evenement (Londen + online): casestudies van mede-alumni, expertpanels over opkomende kaders, en gestructureerd netwerken. Gratis deelname voor Club-leden.
Kleine groepsgesprekken met Dr. Kurinko en 6–12 alumni — we werken aan uw echte rapporten onder NDA, vergelijken benaderingen, lossen randgevallen op. Het soort gesprek dat rapportageprofessionals nergens anders kunnen voeren.
60-minuten Zoom Q&A elke maand — open voor Club-leden. Breng een specifieke vraag uit uw huidige rapportagecyclus mee en ontvang een direct antwoord op praktijkniveau.
Een privéwerkruimte waar alumni uit elk cohort tips uitwisselen, informatie delen over nieuwe regelgeving, en peer-vragen stellen. Het soort netwerk dat u anders een jaar conferenties bijwonen zou kosten.
30% korting op elke LRA-cursus, elk format, elke standalone — inclusief de vijf nieuwe cursussen die vóór eind 2026 worden gelanceerd en elke LRA-cursus daarna. Stapel certificaten uit de LRA-portfolio tegen ledenprijs.
Vier weken vroege toegang vóór elke publieke lancering — plus een stem over welke kaders LRA als volgende behandelt. Alumni bepalen het curriculum mee.
Short, member-only video briefings on what's actually changing — the Voluntary Standard's legal status, ESRS amendments, IFRS S1/S2 updates, CSRD waves. Built so you stay up to date without doomscrolling LinkedIn.
LRA onderhoudt stilzwijgend relaties met corporate ESG-teams en consultancybureaus. Wanneer zij vragen om getrainde rapporteurs, staan Club-leden op de shortlist. Elke kwartaal een Featured Alumni Spotlight op LRA-kanalen.
Routes die Club-lidmaatschap activeren: Live Cohort · 1:1 Expert Mentorship · Applied Practice.
Guided Flex activeert geen Club-lidmaatschap — dat is bewust. De Club is bedoeld voor deelnemers die voor een actief format hebben gekozen: live tijd, mentorship of toegepast werk. Het is een langetermijncommitment van LRA, dus we reserveren het voor deelnemers die een gelijkwaardig commitment hebben gemaakt.
Wij zijn gespecialiseerd in training in ESG-rapportage en duurzaamheidsverslaggeving, afgestemd op Skills England ST0934 en ST0748, met praktische dekking van GRI, ISSB/IFRS S1/S2, ESRS/CSRD, datacontroles, materialiteit, assurance-gereedheid en anti-greenwashing.
Grown into CSRD scope? If your group crosses the mandatory reporting thresholds after you enrol, email lra@reporting.academy — we credit your VSME enrolment against the Certified ESRS (CSRD) course so you are not paying twice to learn the same data twice.
Flexibele betaling. Wilt u de kosten spreiden? Termijnregelingen zijn beschikbaar — mail lra@reporting.academy en wij stellen er een op voor uw inschrijving. Zelf betalende deelnemers en groepen van drie of meer uit dezelfde organisatie kunnen 20% korting aanvragen (de twee zijn niet stapelbaar). En u bent gedekt door een 14-daags annuleringsrecht: volledige terugbetaling binnen 14 dagen na aankoop indien u de Study Studio nog niet hebt betreden.
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