Why Should you Attend?
Do you want to attract more of the right kind of customers, grow your business, and do the right thing at the same time?
Are you feeling overwhelmed with sustainability and unsure where to start but know it’s important?
Then this workshop is for you!
Through simple steps your small business 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 fun, interactive and simple 2-hour session, you’ll be guided through 5 key areas of your business to build your sustainability plan; by documenting what you've achieved in the past, through what to do now, and how to prepare a plan for the future. By the end of the workshop, you'll know the best next step to take your business forward on its sustainability journey.
The workshop will help you discover how much you've already achieved on your sustainability journey! Gain confidence in how to tell your sustainability story, overcoming the pitfalls of “greenwashing” and “greenhushing”, and connect with other businesses on a similar path to you. The workshops are made for between 6-10 businesses.
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.
What you will gain from attending
- Build a sustainability plan and ensure your business is doing the right thing
- 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
What Businesses like yours have said about the Workshops:
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?
Alexina is a Sustainability Adviser, working with SMEs on ESG and sustainability strategies, B Corp certification, carbon literacy and net zero action plans. She supports businesses to be the best that they can be; successful, resilient and a force for good; for people, their communities and the planet.
Alexina founded ActNow Consulting, a Pending B Corp, in April 2023 and became an Official Facilitator for Small99 CRAB (Carbon Reduction Action Box) in November 2023. Alexina also works as an Associate for UK for Good on their Impact on Board programme which aims to drive strategic change and get positive impact onto the agenda of every business in the UK.
Within Northamptonshire, Alexina is the coordinator of the B Local group and Host of the Northampton People, Planet, Pint group.
5% of Alexina's turnover goes towards supporting the Global Returns Project – an awesome charity that supports the world’s highest impact climate mitigation charities.
Alexina is keen to support female-led businesses and offers a 25% discount on all workshops. For members of the Northampton Chambers of Commerce and the NNBN network, Alexina offers a 10% discount. Please contact Alexina for the discount links.
