A different kind of cleaning company

The cleaning sector is renowned for low wages and poor working conditions. Clean for Good is a response to this - we are a business with a social purpose. 

The company was founded in the Parish of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, in the City of London. When the church looked into the cleaning happening in their parish, they found a surprising number of low-paid cleaners, working in less-than fair circumstances.

Every day the City of London relies upon a small army of low-income workers to keep the City ticking over – cleaners, security guards, couriers and bar workers to name a few. Working anti-social hours, thousands are coming to work as the day-time City workers leave their desks. Some are treated well, but some less so – with low wages, poor working conditions and little scope for advancement. They have been described as the City’s ‘hidden workers’.

We also regularly come across cleaners who have been employed on less than the Minimum Wage or have not been paid their full wages.

St Andrew’s decided to do something practical. Why not set up a cleaning company to provide work for cleaners with decent working conditions and paying the London Living Wage?

So that is what we do. Clean for Good enables cleaners to thrive, not just survive. Every cleaner is viewed and treated as a person with skills and potential. We want to promote the idea that cleaning is a respected and dignified career. We care about our employees and want to enable them with the skills and confidence to progress not only within our company, but in their life.

At Clean for Good we aim to provide hope for those who are tired, overworked, and underpaid. We want cleaners to have a life as well as a livelihood. 

That is why we:

  • are a fully accredited Living Wage Employer

  • directly employ our cleaners on decent terms and conditions (no zero-hours contracts)

  • invest in training, management and development

  • operate to high eco-cleaning standards - good for the planet, good for our workers

  • have built an ethical supply chain

We have been nationally recognised by the Living Wage Foundation for our leadership in setting new standards and have won numerous awards.

We have also celebrated the work of our cleaning team with our Portrait Exhibition and ran Poetry for Good, a national poetry competition!