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Business Link
Kerry Snelling
Environmental Business Advice
Coach
Business Link provides information,
advice & support to help clients start,
maintain, grow & improve a business
First point of contact for business advice &
fast-track to the help you need
Help you make the most of your business
Publicly funded, independent, impartial &
confidential support
Business Link can help with:
•Starting a business
• Health & Safety
•Strategy & Planning
•Customers & markets
• Environment, Resource
Efficiency & waste
minimisation
•Finance
• Buying or selling a business
•Operations & productivity
• Tendering
•IT & systems
• Business health check
•Employing & developing
people
• Whatever business issue is
keeping you awake at night!
•Training & development
Support through Business Link
•Website – www.businesslink.gov.uk/southwest
•Phone helpline – 0845 600 9966
•Email - [email protected]
•Attend an event
•Arrange a meeting with an adviser (IDB)
The Gateway to the Environment
•Saving money
• Resource efficiency (energy, water, raw materials)
• Waste minimisation
•Making money
• Green Marketing
• Competitive advantage
• Winning contracts
•Business Improvement
• Staff motivation
• Considerate operations (carbon, ecosystems etc)
Environmental Guides (BL Website)
•Your waste responsibilities
•Set up an Environmental Management System (EMS)
•Importance of environmental issues to your business
•How to manage your waste effectively
•Your responsibilities for the environment
•Assess your environmental compliance
•How to write an environmental policy
•Save money by using energy more efficiently
•Save money by reducing waste
•How to create a workplace travel plan
•Overview of environmental permits and licenses
•Top Tips to make savings (electricity, water, fuel)
Environmental Support
•All advisers have access to knowledge, training and
expert support on range of environmental issues, to
be able to help identify opportunities, answer
questions and signpost/refer to other organisations
•Good national and local resources on website and
through advisers
•Events and training opportunities
•Links with local and national initiatives
•Phoneline / email
Future environmental support?????
•Enhanced Environmental Diagnostic???
•Development vouchers???
•Not yet finalised, not expected until Sept / Oct
•Supplier Matching Service –
www.suppliermatching.co.uk
Your Business Success is Our
Business Objective
Business Link
Customer Information Centre
08456 00 99 66
[email protected]
www.businesslink.gov.uk/southwest