Create your sustainability plan in a simple, fast, fun workshop for any small business. 

Why should you attend?

Through simple steps your small businesses could:

• Improve efficiencies and save money
• Respond to supply chain enquiries
• Be ahead of your competition
• Attract customers
• Improve employee retention
• Reduce your anxiety/overwhelm on this topic
• Reduce your environmental impact

There are many benefits to starting your sustainability journey today!

Session Overview

In this 1.5 hour session, you’ll be guided through 6 key areas of your business to build your sustainability plan, past, present and future. Allowing you to know what the right next step is to take for your business forward on its sustainability journey.

Sustainability is often something you’ll have done much more on than you realise! Gain confidence on how to tell your sustainability story, how to overcome greenwashing and “greenhushing” and hear from other businesses on a similar path to you.  

Benefits of attending

• Build a sustainability plan and know the right next step to take
• Know how to tell your sustainability story to attract more customers and stay ahead of your competitors
• Discover ideas of where to save costs in business operations quickly
• Get an estimate of your carbon footprint and what action to take
• Get a CPD accreditation that you’ve started your Net Zero journey

Get A Sustainability Plan

You’ll leave the workshop with a plan of action that will help you win more clients with a compelling sustainability story, making sure your business is doing the right thing at the same time. This will go beyond just surviving as a business, but thriving as a leader in a low carbon economy.

The actions you’ll leave with will help you save money too, with some simple actions such as how to save electricity, cut transport costs and improve recycling.

We’ve made the process fun and simple - giving you the tools to take control of your sustainability strategy. By looking at 6 key areas of your business, you’ll get an understanding of which area to focus on.

Grow Your Business

During the session, you’ll meet other like-minded businesses who have made changes just like you. Together you’ll discover new ideas to build a better business and have an expert facilitator on hand to guide you and answer any questions you might have.

Consumers and businesses alike want to buy from businesses who are doing the right thing - but to do so they need to know what you’re doing! As part of this workshop you’ll leave with a clear plan of the things you have achieved already in your business to talk to clients and customers about. Make sustainability your USP and tell a sustainability story that wins you more customers!

90% of consumers thought it was important for businesses to talk about their sustainability initiatives, with 68% more likely to buy from those who had a strategy in place.

Meet Net Zero Requirements

The workshop aligns with Net Zero requirements and will give you a plan to reduce emissions by 50% by 2030, and understand the key language between carbon neutrality and net zero.

In the workshop you’ll use the Small99™ Estimator to get a rough idea of your organisation's carbon footprint and where the biggest carbon emissions come from. From here, you will choose a set of reduction actions to take to accelerate you on your journey.

Accredited

The workshop is an accredited CPD workshop too, and you’ll get a certificate at the end to demonstrate the commitment to your sustainability journey.

Want to hear from businesses who have been through the workshop?

Hear the stories of businesses who have been through Small99™’s workshop and the impact it has had with the Small99™ podcast!

What Businesses like yours have said

The CRAB workshop was brilliant! Took a subject that I found quite overwhelming and broke it down into manageable chunks that were easy to understand and digest. Inspirational!

I found the workshop hugely insightful, especially comparing where I thought the highest emissions for my business come from to where they actually do! It's a brilliant starting point for building your carbon reduction plan, taking away the scary element of not knowing where to begin or how to find the important info!

The workshop was super helpful and widened my understanding of climate reduction while providing realistic options for our organisation.

The facilitator talked through the various aspects of the plan, helped provide knowledge and has given me confidence to know we are on the right journey towards Net Zero. The workshop wasn't full of jargon and I would certainly recommend.

It was so practical and actionable, and the conversations it so easily and naturally sparked were amazingly positive! something that feels very daunting and intimidating to a lot of people, this made it feel very do-able!

I love how the workshop almost effortlessly helped people to recognise what they'd already done (which we're all very quick to forget!) and so naturally sparked so many great conversations with people sharing their own ideas and experiences.

Who’s the Facilitator?

Danielle Dale from The Changineer is a former engineer/project manager from the Oil & Gas Industry who has redirected her career to support individual and collective change to a sustainable future. Having gained skills in change management and environmental topics Danielle is an experienced consultant and facilitator. The Changineer works in partnership with Small 99 delivering CRAB workshop and People Planet Pint/Pastry events supporting and engaging SMEs on their sustainability journeys.

Who should attend?

• Business owners / Founders
• Managers / Leaders
• Sustainability Coordinators / Officers
• Forward thinkers/first movers
• Environmental aware/concerned
• Small and Medium size businesses
• Companies being asked in the supply chain about carbon reduction plans

Finally

For clarity this workshop is also referred to as Small 99 CRAB - Carbon Reduction Action Box.