Siva Kugathas recognised at International Sustainability Business Summit and Global Business Leadership Forum
ServiceMaster Clean AAA business owner awarded for environmental consciousness on home soil at the Sustainability Business Summit and Global Business Leadership Forum 2025.
Siva Kugathas from ServiceMaster Clean AAA left war-torn Sri Lanka at 18 to travel to the UK. A single father to his two children, he wanted to provide them with a better life.
He returned this week as a decorated and successful business owner to collect the South Asian Award of Appreciation for his commitment to sustainability at the International Sustainability Business Summit and Global Business Leadership Forum 2025, and the Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Cleaning award.
This blog post has all of the details.
Sustainability at ServiceMaster Clean AAA
For Siva and the team at ServiceMaster Clean AAA’s 19 locations across the UK, sustainability and social responsibility are core to how they conduct business.
As Siva testified during his speech for the Global Business Conclave at the House of Lords earlier this year, it is up to businesses that often disproportionately impact the environment compared to other contributors to take action for change.
“In our market, sustainability has become a hot-button topic, but many businesses, despite possibly having the most skin in the game, have been slow on the uptake. In fact, Forbes recently estimated that although 90% of companies agree that sustainability is essential, only 60% have implemented any strategy to improve their practices.”
At ServiceMaster Clean AAA, Siva has gone to great lengths to ensure his business acts sustainably, most notably, opening the ServiceMaster Clean AAA Woodland in 2023 as a conservation area for local wild and plant life, where the team plants a new tree for every new contract signed across the UK to offset the carbon emissions produced by their operations.
This initiative helps support the local ecosystem and allows Siva’s commercial clients to be included in their campaign for a more sustainable future, efforts that have already seen ServiceMaster Clean AAA certified as a carbon-neutral business, and now the South Asian Award of Appreciation.
Community Support
Alongside his sustainability award, Siva was awarded for his community support both in the UK and Sri Lanka. As a leader who is keen to always lead from the front while giving back, Siva is always searching for new ways to support his community across the UK and in Sri Lanka.
“I am determined to take care of my community and work hard to engage with it at every level through my business. This philanthropic core is also baked into my culture, wherein there is no question or ulterior rationale for ‘giving back’, as it were. Community is everything. So, of course, giving back is just what you do,” he says.
Over the years, this has included supporting staff with their education and personal development, raising thousands for various charities, annually sponsoring the YMCA in Guildford to allow them to provide support to the homeless, and helping fund education for disadvantaged children through Barney and Echo, to name a few.
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