Suffolk 25 By 25
We’ve joined the Suffolk 25 By 25 campaign and have pledged to reduce our carbon emissions by 25% by 2025. It’s a useful first step towards carbon net zero by 2030, and there is lots of help...
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Tag: business community
Biz calculator launched
The Carbon Champions Business Carbon Calculator was presented to tenants at Claydon Court this week. The calculator is nothing special (you could probably train a monkey to write one) but the way it...
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New communities join pilot programme
We’re hoping to start work with two new communities in March. The first reflects our existing sporting roots with a venture into recreational rugby. The second builds on our existing work and co...
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120 down. 28,505 to go.
It’s no surprise that the importance of small and medium business in the fight against climate change has only recently been realised. Despite accounting for 99.9% of the business populati...
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Building back better with Small Business Relief
Like other small organisations, we were surprised and grateful for the government’s £10k small business rate grant earlier this year. So we’re using this money to support local bu...
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40% capital grants for SMEs – the low carbon KEEP grant scheme
If you work for an SME, you could be eligible for grant funding for new equipment or software that would lower your carbon footprint. Here we’ll briefly summarise a great opportunity for busines...
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Entering the Bear Pit! Federation of Small Business make their thoughts known …
Engaging with the small business community is one of the crosses universities have to bear these days and so it was probably with a sense of trepidation that Matthew Taylor from UEA’s Adapt entered ...
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Green Finance Conference: Accessing Green Funding for SMEs
This was one of those events which looked good on paper but didn’t quite deliver. ‘Speed presenting’ (ten minute slots each) meant a lot of ground was covered but you suspect left the audien...
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Sustainable business a top priority
A recent report from Lloyd Bank suggests that one in four British small businesses say sustainability is a top priority for 2014. Good to know that Neutral Territory stakeholders are on message a...
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Why don’t companies use interns?
One of the things that always surprise me is why companies don’t make better use of bright young people. An especially useful vehicle for this is summer internships where you can pick up undergrad...
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