Sustainability Support
Passionate⬥ Pragmatic ⬥ Impactful
The Benefits of Our Support
Whether you are at the start of your sustainability journey and unsure where to begin or looking to move a particular project forward, our multi-award-winning support removes pain points and delivers a range of benefits, including:
- Strengthened brand and reputation
- Strengthened recruitment and retention of employees and customers
- Improved operational efficiencies & reduced longer term costs
- Improved health and wellbeing policies and impacts
- Superior risk management
- Strengthened business continuity
Project Support
Perhaps you need an ESG policy writing for that tender? Maybe you recognise your risk register doesn’t yet include the impacts of climate change on your business? Or you are redesigning your website and marketing copy and want to shout about your environmental credentials without being accused of ‘greenwashing’?
We’re here to simplify the overwhelm and successfully get that project over the line. We work across a range of sectors and company sizes, selecting the most appropriate frameworks and toolkits, to ensure you meet your outcomes and have fun along the way!
How it works:
- Project-specific support and fee
- On-site and online
- Wide-ranging support across the areas detailed below
Fractional Support
SMEs and micro-SMEs often find themselves between a rock and a hard place, often having insufficient capacity and finance to employ a part-time sustainability role, but needing regular expertise to respond to ESG demands placed on them and build that business growth. That’s where we come in!
We are your Sustainability Manager, bringing our wealth of experience and expertise without any of the hassle, at the end of the ‘phone for any query and provide ongoing support for whatever comes up.
How it works:
- Retainer support and fee
- Full or half day support each month
- On-site and online
- Wide-ranging support across the areas detailed below
Take a look below and get in touch to explore the possibilities
Auditing & Gap Analysis
Diagnostics of real estate, supply chain and operations (including marketing & digital functions) to celebrate your successes
Gap analysis through both an ESG and Net Zero lens to support actionable and impactful action planning
Comprehensive sustainability auditing using the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Framework.
Action Planning & Policy Writing
Informed by the gap analysis to create pragmatic short to longer term SMART targets that feed directly into your overall company strategy.
Recommendations are bespoke to your context and budget to maximise the opportunity for implementation
Sustainability, ESG or Net Zero policies are again written with your specific need in mind, be it a one page start policy or something more comprehensive to support a tender bid
Policy & Communications Reviews
Review of your current sustainability, ESG or Net Zero policies to ensure the content and messaging maximises your tender and customer generation
Review of stakeholder and marketing communications to improve their accuracy and impactful content to maximise their impact
Optimising Stakeholder Engagement
Identifying how receptive your current culture is to embedding sustainability and wider ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) measures
Exploring and removing blockers within your organisation to taking action and ensuring managers and decision makers have the right tools for leading effective climate conversations with employees, suppliers and partners
Supporting Climate Wellbeing
Identifying the prevalence of psychological barriers to taking climate action in your workforce
Integrating climate anxiety awareness and appropriate employee support protocols within your existing health and wellbeing policies.
Embedding learning and support opportunities across CPD and employee onboarding to mitigate negative impacts on health and wellbeing to improve wellbeing and performance
Decarbonising Governance
Ensuring holistic sustainability, Net Zero legislation and climate change impacts are fully recognised and integrated into your risk management and business continuity planning.
Creating robust board, trustee and executive structure capabilities to guarantee compliance and effective strategic delivery
Curating an appropriate sustainability reporting structure and preparing board papers
Creating A Sustainable Working Environment
Auditing your workplace building and office design (including provision for working from home assessment) to identify factors positively and negatively impacting on occupant health, wellbeing and performance
Assessment includes reporting on thermal comfort, air quality, lighting and neurodiverstity provision
Action planning to improve workplace design to improve both energy efficiency and health and wellbeing.
Carbon Measurement, Reduction & Reporting
Carbon scoping to identify your main sources of emissions
Measuring and reporting on emissions, aligned with Science Based Targets as necessary
Carbon management plan to prioritise carbon reduction actions
Decarbonising Heritage Buildings
Investigating the feasibility of external and internal energy efficiency measures in your heritage or listed building
Curating a sustainable contractor directory with expert knowledge to deliver sympathetic and appropriate retrofitting and repair and supporting the tender and due diligence process.
Exploring all heritage aspects to support the delivery of sustainable social value.
Training
If you are looking to bring sustainability capabilities in house rather than seek external support. we have a range of interactive and impactful off-the-shelf and bespoke workshops covering most of areas of support. Delivered either online or in-person, check out our training page for more details and get in touch to explore how we can help.
Training topics include:
- Optimising Engagement
- Decarbonising Your Digital Footprint
- Managing Climate Anxiety & Wellbeing
- Certified Carbon Literacy Training
Public Speaking
Our multi-award winning expertise, passionate vocal advocacy and thought leadership is highly sought after for conference keynotes, expert panels, podcasts and feature articles. Check out our Showcase page and get in touch, we’d be delighted to explore how we can add value to your next event
Consultancy Support FAQ's
We're an micro-SME and want to improve our sustainability. Are we too small for you to support us?
Not at all! Obviously we're delighted to count household names such as Historic England and the National Trust as Spenbeck clients, but work with solopreneurs to SMEs too. As a micro-SME ourselves we completely understand how daunting it can be for smaller organisations and charities who may well feel they're getting left behind. Our passion and expertise in making sustainability, ESG and Net Zero accessible to those who need our support the most is what excites us to get out of bed in the morning!
We wrote a sustainability policy a few years ago. I'm not sure its quite up to date and giving the message we want. Can you review and improve it?
Yes we can! This is a very straightforward process and popular with clients. We usually have an online meeting to gather information and then its a case of reviewing any documentation and rescripting it to secure your sustainability, ESG or Net Zero narrative in a way that all your stakeholders can understand.
We know we have to improve our sustainability capabilities at Board and Exec level but aren't sure where to start. Is that something you can help with?
Personalised support is what we do and don't worry, many of our clients came to us in the same boat. We start by having an exploratory, no-obligation chat about your current context and hoped for outcomes. Then it's onto co-creating a training package that meets your exact needs in terms of focus areas, locations and budget across the most realistic time frame.
Your mention you use the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), I've heard of them but not sure how they will help improve our sustainability?
Everything we do at Spenbeck is founded on the SDGs as they reflect our understanding of what sustainability truly means. It's about ensuring that an entity can continue in an effective way well into the future, and for us that is sustainable health, education, communities and business, not only the environment. We take this systemic, holistic approach to ensure that your organisation becomes authentically sustainable, with all the benefits that provides.
We Come Well Recommended
Our client, tenants and partners have great things to say about us, read why they’ve partnered with us.
“Becky was recommended by colleagues at the Institute of Leadership as someone who could help uscraft a framework of learning opportunities with a Sustainability theme. Our initial scope was quite broad, but Becky has been able to advise us skilfully as to how we might systematise an offer that will embed sustainable practices at the heart of business, leadership, and entrepreneurship learning. It is exciting to work with Becky as she is so passionate and knowledgeable about her area of expertise. Weare looking forward to continuing to work with Becky who we know will challenge our thinking, suggest opportunities for change and continue to hold our hands as we deliver learning opportunities that areboth unique and essential”
An Award-Winning Team
