SCC - Better Banking: Green Your Business Banking, Pensions and Investments

This in-person training session, led by Bold Green Strategies, focuses on a powerful, often overlooked area: your organisation's financial footprint. Every pound your business banks, saves, or invests, has an impact. We'll show you how to align your business banking, employee pension schemes, and investments with your sustainability aims and the wider push for a more sustainable future.

The session will clarify financial jargon, providing straightforward guidance, clear actionable steps, and respected resources and platforms. We'll use real UK examples to demonstrate how simple and impactful it can be to make more sustainable financial choices, regardless of your business' size or current financial knowledge.

What You Will Learn

• The 'Hidden' Impact of Your Money: Discover how your business's financial choices (where you bank, pensions) significantly affect its environmental and social footprint.
• Finding Sustainable Financial Providers - Banks & Pensions: Learn to identify genuine ethical financial providers, understand their offerings for businesses, and spot 'greenwashing' using trusted, independent resources and platforms.
• Practical Steps to Make the Switch: Get clear, easy-to-follow guidance on how to assess your current financial providers and confidently transition to more sustainable banking and pension options.
• Reliable Resources: Access a curated list of trusted online resources and information to support your ongoing responsible finance journey.
• Your Personal Action Plan: Leave with a concrete, achievable plan of the immediate steps your business will take to align its finances with sustainability.

This session provides general guidance only. It does not constitute financial, legal, or investment advice. Always consult an independent FCA-registered financial advisor or relevant professional for specific business needs.

How to Register

Our training sessions are open to all Southwark-based SMEs with fewer than 250 employees. Up to three employees per business are invited to register for each session. In order to join this training, please ensure your organisation has completed the Southwark Climate Collective Registration Form.

Timings

09:00 Arrival - Tea, coffee and pastries provided

09:30 Session Kick-off

11:00 Close

Accessibility: any dietary or accessibility requirements, please contact us at: info@southwarkclimatecollective.co.uk

About the Southwark Climate Collective

The Southwark Climate Collective is a partnership project led by Better Bankside, funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and supported by the Mayor of London. In 2024 the project supported 141 SMEs on their net zero journeys, achieving a range of outcomes, from energy savings and increased recycling rates to improved processes and management practices.

In the 2025-6 phase, the project is being expanded to support a wider cohort of SMEs across Southwark to prioritise climate action, through bespoke consulting support, a programme of expert-led training, Carbon Literacy Training and a suite of online resources.

Find out more at: southwarkclimatecollective.co.uk