Recycle Week
Recycle Week is an annual event designed to celebrate and promote the benefits of recycling. It creates opportunities for us all to implement positive change that will help protect our planet.
Recycle Week was created by WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme), an organisation that helps others use resources more efficiently and sustainably through upcycling.
Environment Day
The World Environment Day 2022 global campaign #OnlyOneEarth calls for transformative changes to policies and choices to enable cleaner, greener, and sustainable living in harmony with nature. It will focus on the need to live sustainably in harmony with nature, and our possibilities for shifting to a greener lifestyle through both policies and individual choices.
Mother Earth Day
International Mother Earth Day is celebrated to remind each of us that the Earth and its ecosystems provide us with life and sustenance.
It also recognizes a collective responsibility, as called for in the 1992 Rio Declaration, to promote harmony with nature and the Earth to achieve a just balance among the economic, social and environmental needs of present and future generations of humanity.
International Mother Earth Day provides an opportunity to raise public awareness around the world to the challenges regarding the well-being of the planet and all the life it supports.
Recycling Day
The last decade has been the hottest on record, and we are now facing a climate emergency of unparalleled proportions. If we don’t make significant and rapid changes, we will see continued rising global temperatures, the melting of icecaps, continents on fire and rapid deforestation.
Global Recycling Day was created in 2018 to help recognise, and celebrate, the importance recycling plays in preserving our precious primary resources and securing the future of our planet. It is a day for the world to come together and put the planet first.
Christmas Jumper in June
On Monday June 21, wear a Christmas jumper in June because taking care of your mental health isn’t seasonal. Raising money for Mind and Shout 85258.
A Beginner’s Guide to Energy Management
Quantify & reduce your business’s energy consumption!
Book your FREE place on this interactive webinar aimed at any business regardless of size or industry, that will provide participants with an opportunity to ask questions and discuss any issues they may have about energy management.
Energy management expert, Claire Gomersall will be discussing:
- How the scheme works;
- What is eligible for tax relief;
- The interaction with grant funding;
- What HMRC look for.
Meet Our Speaker:
Claire is an ISO 50001 Energy Management System Lead Auditor and qualified Low Carbon Consultant. She has conducted many Energy Savings Opportunities Scheme (ESOS) and energy audits identifying over £10m of savings for organisations of all sizes and across all sectors including aviation, distribution, charities, manufacturing, data centres and waste disposal. She has also produced many Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting reports and statements quantifying energy and carbon emissions for large businesses across all sectors. As an ISO 50001 Energy Management Lead Auditor, she has assisted organisations in conducting gap analyses, assisting organisations to implement their new ISO 50001 management systems and conducting internal audits to enable organisations to maintain continuous improvement of their energy consumption.
Find out more about Sustainable Footprints’ energy management services by clicking here.
Research and Development Tax Relief Webinar
Are you eligible for tax relief for your research and development into green technologies?
Sustainable Footprints, together with their partner, R&D Tax North West will be delivering this webinar aimed at any business regardless of size or industry and will provide participants with an opportunity to ask questions and discuss any issues they may have on green tech R&D tax rebate.
Research and development expert, Nick Biden will be discussing:
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Introduction to R&D Tax Relief;
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Eligibility & rates of relief;
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Allowable costs;
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Grant Funding;
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Recent changes and ongoing consultations;
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Green tech.
Environmental expert, Miranda Barker will be discussing:
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Funding and grants for R&D green tech.
Meet Our Speakers:
Nick is an experienced Chartered Mechanical Engineer, with over 28 years of engineering experience and technical knowledge within the renewable, water, power, process and nuclear industries. Working in the both the UK and abroad, he has covered project management, consultancy, design, specification, construction and commissioning.
More recently Nick has, for over 13 years, been supporting companies that are eligible to claim R&D Tax Relief for their qualifying research and development activities. To date he has helped businesses to identify over £250m of eligible R&D activity, worth around £23m in tax relief, claiming under both the Large Company (now RDEC) and SME regimes.
Nick offers a unique blend of engineering expertise combined with detailed knowledge of the R&D Tax Credits regime. His technical experience gives him an intuitive ability to understand a project and to relate to almost any technological challenge.
Find out more about tax relief for green tech research and development by clicking here.
Miranda Barker has been an environmental consultant for 26 years; working in the public and private sector; and as a plc director and managing director of her own firm for 16 years. Now in her capacity as Chief Executive of East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce, Miranda has instigated the development of an environmental consultancy unit working across the county which has secured EU backing to deliver a £6 million programme of business net-zero support for all local firms.
Miranda has been intimately involved in the development of climate emergency carbon baselines for several of the area’s local authorities as well as working at county level on the climate / low carbon strategy.
Find out more about the East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce here.
Calculating, Managing and Reducing Your Business’s Carbon Footprint
You can’t manage what you don’t measure!
This FREE interactive webinar is aimed at any business regardless of size or industry and will provide participants with an opportunity to ask questions and discuss any issues they may have about calculating, managing and reducing their business’s carbon footprint.
Carbon footprint expert, Geri Findlay will be discussing:
- the importance of knowing your business’s carbon footprint;
- how to calculate your carbon footprint;
- how to set meaningful carbon reduction targets;
- reporting your carbon footprint.
Meet Our Speaker:
Sustainable Footprints Director, Geri Findlay has over 17 years’ experience working in the sustainability and certification field undertaking a number of corporate carbon footprints across a range of industries including public sector, transport, manufacturing, heavy industry and industrial fleet hire. She has implemented a number of multinational greenhouse gas and energy measurement programmes including being responsible for the UK’s first Carbon and Energy Management Reduction Scheme (CEMARS) certified carbon footprint for MWH in 2008. In addition to consultancy, Geri has extensive audit and verification experience including working as an Assessment Manager for UKAS, Carbon Product Manager for Germanischer Lloyd GmbH and External Resource Auditor for BSI.
Find out more about Sustainable Footprints’ carbon footprint services by clicking here.
SECR: Everything You Need to Know to be Compliant
This FREE webinar will give you all the information you need to become SECR compliant including what you need to calculate, what you need to report and how to report it. We will also tell you how you can use SECR as an opportunity to reduce your business’s carbon footprint, save energy and money as well as demonstrating your commitment to the fight against climate change.
There will be an ‘Ask the Experts’ session at the end which will give you the opportunity to find answers to any questions you have about SECR and how to ensure you are compliant with this legislation.
What is SECR?
Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) legislation requires qualifying organisations to include their carbon emissions and energy consumption from the buildings, fleet and processes they are responsible for in their consolidated end of year accounts.
Is my business required to report under SECR?
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy estimate that approximately 11,900 businesses will need to include a SECR statement within their end of year accounts. These are businesses that have an energy consumption >40,000 kWh per annum and are:
- LLP or quoted UK company of any size that is obliged to report under mandatory greenhouse gas reporting regulations;
- A registered or unregistered unquoted company that meets at least two of the following criteria:
- employ more than 250 employees;
- a turnover of at least £36 million
- a balance sheet total of at least £18 million
See www.sustainablefootprints.co.uk/secr for more information about SECR.
