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Sustainability

Our Sustainability programme

We want to help local organisations embed environmental sustainability into what they do, work together to improve the local and wider environment and get the message out about it.

We plan to achieve this through:

  • Events that provide inspiration, motivation and mutual support
  • Identifying sustainability champions within organisations
  • Providing sustainability training and support for champions and decision-makers
  • Working together with other organisations on sustainability initiatives and providing sponsorship opportunities
  • Connecting businesses with sustainability expertise
  • Signposting relevant resources
  • Sharing success stories and examples of best practice

Are you a sustainability champion or could you become one?

We’re keen to identify sustainability champions at organisations across the Reading area and to support them to make an even bigger positive difference. 

  • Are you passionate about helping to improve your organisation’s sustainability credentials?
  • Are you already shaking things up to minimise your organisation’s impact on the environment?
  • Or are you simply frustrated about issues in your workplace like reliance on disposable plastic cups or lights being left on out of hours?

If any of these sound like you, you would be welcome to join our growing network of sustainability champions – 60 and counting. You’ll then receive exclusive invitations to events where you will find mutual support and inspiration.

Get in touch to sign up and join in. 

Trees for Reading

We want to mobilise Reading-based businesses to help us make our town greener, healthier and happier.

We’re offering local organisations the opportunity to fund the planting and care of trees within the town through our Trees for Reading initiative.

In response to demand, we’re also accepting donations from individuals, so the whole community can contribute.

Find out more about this initiative

Useful resources

Here is a collection of useful resources for you:

Tips from Reading Climate Action Network to enable businesses to help Reading reach net zero by 2030

Useful insights and resources from IEMA to help businesses transition to net zero carbon

A blog post about our first session for sustainability champions on 3 June 2020

The Ethics of Sustainability, by Charles J. Kibert, Leslie Thiele, Anna Peterson and Martha Munroe (e-book)

A free guide to getting started with making your business more sustainable, by local corporate social responsibility consultant Tracey Rawling Church

A guide from Business in the Community to incorporating the principles of the circular economy into the way your office works

Presentation from our breakfast briefing on The Challenge of Climate Change, 26 November 2019

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