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Welcome to our November issue of the Green Business Programme newsletter!
This issue is jam-packed with information about this month’s events, news about the latest partnership initiated by Coventry City Council in order to offer more support to local SMEs, a BBC radio coverage of our programme, and more on the green movements in Coventry.
We’d also like to introduce our business advisors’ team, Bernie and Jon. If you are based in Coventry or Warwickshire our team offers free energy audits to SMEs. Due to the high interest in our programme, the audits are now fully booked for 2021, but if you’re interested, please get in touch and we could book you in for the first available date in 2022.
Before getting right into it we’d like to let you know that tomorrow, 26 November, we will be exhibiting at the ”Midlands Business Show” in Solihull, from 10am – 4pm. If you’d like to have a face-to-face conversation with us about how we could support your business using one of our ERDF funded programmes this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
Remember to keep up to date with our latest initiatives, news and events, by following us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Stay green and safe!
Alex, Bernie, Clare, Jon, Maciej, Maria, Matt and Sara.
COP26 Glasgow
- COP26 ends with global agreement to accelerate action on climate this decade
- Two weeks of intense negotiations finally complete the Paris Rulebook
- For the first time COP agrees position on phasing down unabated coal power
- The Glasgow Climate Pact caps two years of diplomacy and ambition raising
Read the full update.
Businesses get insight into Net Zero efforts during COP26 Coventry Roadshow
At an exclusive regional COP26 event on 10 and 11 November, businesses from Coventry got the chance to tour Coventry University’s state-of-the-art facilities, and got an insight into the major transport projects taking place in Coventry to achieve net zero.
Delegates learned more about the Coventry Very Light Rail project, electric autonomous shuttles, micromobility and more. If you weren’t able to attend on the day, videos of the sessions are available on the Council’s YouTube page.
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GreenTalk Live webinars
This month we held two webinars. The first one, delivered in partnership with the European Space Agency looked into how the latest digital opportunity could help businesses become greener, while the second one, on 18 November, delivered in partnership with University of Birmingham discussed the support SMEs could take advantage of while trying to achieve Net Zero.
If you missed any of this webinars, you can find the recordings and all the presentations online.
We are currently planning our upcoming events for 2022, have your say about what topics you’d like to hear more about by answering this quick survey.
Coventry City Council has teamed up with the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) to help businesses continue to emerge from a difficult 18 months of trading.
On offer is a free one-year membership with the FSB which provides access to a support package including advice and guidance on areas such as legal and tax issues, employment legislation, cyber protection and insurance, free business banking and debt recovery services.
Small businesses based in Coventry with up to 50 employees that have not been members of the FSB in the previous 12 months are eligible for the scheme.
To apply, visit our webpage and complete a short expression of interest form.
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On 2 November, Councillor Jim O'Boyle and Anthony Evans, Managing Director of Sarginsons, talked on the BBC CWR breakfast show about how businesses in the city are cutting their carbon emissions and gave some insight into the support available to them through the Green Business Programme.
Listen now. (from 1:25:00).
Bernie and Jon are our programme’s business advisors. They go out weekly to visit local SME premises looking at how they can help them become more energy efficient.
If you are based in Coventry and you will get in touch with us for an energy audit, you will most likely be visited by Jon, while Bernie covers most parts of Warwickshire.
Read their full bios.
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The Coventry and Warwickshire Green Business Programme is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund and is delivered by Coventry City Council, Coventry University and Coventry University Enterprises Ltd.
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