We’re the latest area to join the Get Zero Get Zellar project to boost local net zero progress, and we’re calling for 300 local businesses to come forward and claim their free access to the online sustainability tool. 

Zellar helps companies to calculate and understand their carbon emissions and then build an achievable plan to reduce them, based on their size and sector. Businesses using the app and website can cut their carbon footprint and save up to £4,100 in energy bills.

Tackling meaningful climate action helps a business to stand out in the marketplace and customers increasingly want to support eco-friendly enterprises. Taking part in this programme demonstrates that a business is making a positive impact.

The Council is subsidising places on the programme so that 300 local small and medium-sized businesses can access this scheme free of charge and kickstart their sustainability journeys.

To qualify for a free one-year Zellar licence worth £299 a business must be a micro-SME (up to 10 employees) or SME (under 250 employees) with a base in North Kesteven. The offer is available to the first 300 qualifying enterprises to apply. Businesses can apply HERE.

Additional funding for the programme is provided by SSE’s Sustainable Business Communities project with Zellar. 

More information is available on the Business NK website HERE. 

Please share our social posts and/or share this email directly with businesses in your areas.

As part of the Blue Green Corridor project, which has already seen conservation works on the Slea and Lollycocks, there will now be improved access for people with mobility problems or pushchairs/prams.

A new ramp is being installed where previously only steps were available.

There have also been upgrades to the footpath along the western part of the Slea, near The Drove allotments.

What's this got to do with climate action, we hear you cry. Well, this year's household survey includes new questions about your attitudes and actions on climate change and the environment. So, we're super-keen for as many people as possible to fill in the survey and keep us up to speed on your views.

You can find the survey here.

Feel free to share this with friends and family so we can get as wide a range of opinions as possible. Thanks!

From litter-picking to tree-planting and everything in between, if you're part of a group that cares about the planet we want to hear from you.

We're keen to set up a database of all the local groups - however informal - who have an interest in the environment or climate change. It's so we can better connect with you and reach out to share information and opportunities.

Whether it's the main focus of the group, or just part of what you do, please get in touch. If it's a group you know of but are not an active member of, please tell us about it.

Email details to ClimateAction@n-kesteven.gov.uk

Sleaford Climate Action Network (Sleaford CAN) organises bi-monthly repair cafe sessions at the Riverside Church on Southgate, Sleaford. The next one is coming up soon, on 20 May.

Drop along with items you need repairing to see if the volunteers can help you out. Or, if you've got skills and a little time to spare, why not consider becoming a volunteer mender?

We'd love to know if there are other Repair Cafe events taking place locally, so do get in touch at ClimateAction@n-kesteven.gov.uk.

As part of our project to increase biodiversity in Heckington, alongside Heckington in Bloom and Trees for Heckington, new planters have already been installed in Willow Close. They’ve already been planted up with beautiful perennials.

This is the first step in the project, with much more to come. We’ll be following the progress and sharing details here and on our social channels.

Later stages of the project will see green spaces in Osborn Way, Willow Close and Alexander Way managed differently with benefits for the community and nature.

Climate change can be a confusing subject. You know you should be doing something about it, but what?

If you own or manage a business in North Kesteven we want to hear from you, and even if your answers are all ‘don’t knows’ that’s great – we need to know.

Whether you’re a sole trader, an SME or something bigger, as part of our ongoing work to better support our local enterprises we want to understand your views about tackling climate change within your business.

Your responses will help us to shape the support we offer in this field, and to tailor our programmes to your needs. Complete the survey online here. 

Know someone who should fill the survey in? Please forward it to them!