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Making an Impact: 2001 to 2011
Introducing ENWORKS
• Established in 2001; celebrating our tenth anniversary in 2011.
• More than 11,580 businesses of all sizes and sectors already advised.
• Internationally recognised environmental business support.
• Combatting market failure and decoupling economic
growth from environmental degradation.
• Focused on resource efficiency – making more
with less – by using energy / water / materials
more efficiently and managing residual waste.
• We convert environmental pressures into
real competitive advantages.
Headline impacts
“What impresses me most about projects such as ENWORKS is
they truly are becoming the change that’s needed in the world.”
Al Gore, former US Vice President
• Over the last decade ENWORKS has demonstrated its environmental,
economic and social impacts, by helping businesses to achieve:
£100m
Business cost savings
476,000
Tonnes of CO2e savings
7,488
Jobs safeguarded and created
£230.6m
Sales safeguarded and won
11,580
Businesses assisted
Core services
•On-site reviews to identify resource efficiency improvements
- Free reports with fully quantified improvement opportunities.
- Ongoing, hands-on assistance with implementing improvements.
- Help with securing finance if necessary, accessing technical support from specialist .
consultants, and driving cultural change within businesses.
• Bespoke software – the ENWORKS Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit
- Free access to award-winning software used by Government and public bodies.
- Helps managers to prioritise, track and report on your progress and resulting savings.
• Training and networking
- Up to 40 free seminars/workshops/events a year, at local venues across the NW.
- Includes courses certified by professional bodies, including CIEH and CIWM.
• Green Intelligence
- Free, fortnightly e-bulletins, bringing the most relevant environmental business news,
information and case studies directly to people’s inboxes, tailored to their business needs.
Unique delivery model
• Three-tier partnership structure:
1) Partnership Board
2) Central Management Team
3) Delivery Partnership / Consultants
• Resource efficiency support delivered through a network of
locally-based organisations, employing specialist environmental advisers.
• Delivery partners complemented by a bank of private sector consultants.
• Free, practical, on-site support that’s tailored to individual businesses
• ENWORKS also helps with issues such as:
Corporate responsibility / legal compliance / climate change adaptation /
greening supply chains / sustainable procurement.
ENWORKS
partnership
structure
Business benefits
• Our hands-on, one-to-one support helps businesses to:
Cut costs
Boost productivity
Increase profitability
Safeguard and create jobs
Retain and win contracts
Improve corporate reputation
Key
11,580 businesses
supported with
resource efficiency
by ENWORKS
Investment and return
£46m
Invested in businesses
£178m
Net additional GVA
£23m in public funds
secured (primarily from the
NWDA and ERDF) to support
businesses
Independent evaluation (2007-10)
showed that ~£9m invested in us
delivered a £178m net additional
GVA to the economy (1:20 ratio).
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We outperformed all regional
environmental business support
programmes and achieved better
value-for-money than the
An additional £23m leveraged
from other public sector sources
aggregate
support.
of all the national environmental
programmes / generic business
support programmes.
Business savings – financial and environmental
• We help businesses to reap the financial rewards of improving their environmental
performance…
£152m
Business cost savings per year
We’re helping businesses to boost their bottom lines
794,200
CO2e savings per year
We’re helping businesses to reduce their carbon footprints.
6.1m m3
Water savings per year
We’re helping businesses to protect precious natural resources.
3.1m tonnes
Material savings per year
We’re helping businesses to make more with less.
520,800 tonnes
Waste diversion from landfill per year
We’re helping businesses to treat residual waste as a fresh
resource or income stream.
Local economy and social impact
• ENWORKS is already helping 1000’s of businesses to achieve amazing
things, and we have plans to do much more…
£21.4m
Private investment leveraged
We’ve helped businesses of all sizes to
make smart investments.
7,488
Jobs safeguarded and created
We have a proven ability to drive job security
and job creation.
£230.6m Sales safeguarded and increased
We’ve made environmental improvements that
have given local companies a real competitive edge.
3,335
Adults trained
We facilitate knowledge and skills transfer to make
business improvements sustainable in the long term.
Average savings
• On average, for every business supported intensively with resource
efficiency (resource reduction or waste management) we’ve
achieved cumulative savings to date of:
65,700
Cost savings
312 tonnes
CO2e savings
460,100 tonnes
Electricity/gas savings
3,400 m3
Water savings
11,800 tonnes
Material savings
175 tonnes
Waste diverted from landfill
It’s not rocket science
• Better resource efficiency means a healthier balance sheet.
• No-cost / low-cost resource efficiency measures are proven to cut costs and boost
jobs/sales. Defra (2011) estimates they could save UK businesses £23bn a year.
• Environmental improvements address key business survival issues:  Risk
 Reward
 Reputation
• Many businesses are missing out on financial and reputational rewards due to
market failure associated with climate change (identified in Stern Review 2006).
• NWDA survey (2009) showed just 20% of businesses hoped to improve resource
efficiency in the next 12 months. Most were only looking at low-impact initiatives AND
it is unlikely that all of that 20% were actually implemented.
• Left alone, most businesses will FAIL to take effective action without support.
A lasting impact
• We’re actively supporting businesses with the transition
towards a vibrant, sustainable, low-carbon economy.
• The annual savings we achieve accrue, year after year.
• We’re helping the UK to meet its climate change targets.
• We’re helping to reduce the pressures on scarce
resources and on local waste collection/disposal services.
• We deliver a tried and tested model of support that already works for companies of all
sizes and sectors.
• There is still much more to do. We’ve already identified fresh annual savings
of:
£119m
4.4m
Cost savings
Water savings
663.5k tonnes
690k tonnes
CO2e savings
Material savings
External recognition
ENWORKS has been recognised as best practice by a wide range of high profile bodies, such as:
BusinessGreen Leaders Awards –
NGO of the Year, 2011
Europe Awards –
Finalist in the ‘Consuming’ category,
2011
European Commission –
Best Practice Environmental
Support Network, 2009
The Ashden Awards for
Sustainable Energy –
Energy Efficiency, 2007
Regeneration and Renewal Awards –
Economic Development
Project of the Year, 2007
SustainIT Awards –
Climate Change and
Environmental Efficiency, 2006
European Commission –
Best Practice Principles of
Sustainable Development, 2005
Success Northwest Awards –
Exceptional Contribution to
Environmental Excellence, 2005
European Social Fund –
Merit Award for Sustainable
Development, 2005
Learning Northwest Awards –
Workforce Development, 2002
What people are saying
“ENWORKS is one hell of a story! This is the sort of stuff that
makes me feel amazingly inspired. It is the stuff of incremental
impact reduction, in a way that’s delivering real value for wealth
creators, for shareholders, for businesses, for communities and
for the environment. It is a tremendous achievement.”
Sir Jonathon Porritt CBE, co-founder of Forum for the Future
“Without ENWORKS’ help we wouldn’t have made
the progress we have; nor would we have been able to
secure the future of our employees’ contracts or the
new business we’ve acquired in this difficult economic
climate.”
Katrina Wallbank, Director of T Forrest & Sons, Lancashire
Get in touch
To find out more about ENWORKS, please contact us at:
Samantha Nicholson, ENWORKS Director
E: [email protected]
T: 0161 245 4764
www.enworks.com
@enworks2001
www.linkedin.com/company/enworks
Green Intelligence - fortnightly emails of green business news and case studies:
www.greenintelligence.org.uk
ENWORKS In a Box – sharing our learning and experiences:
www.enworksinabox.com
Website for businesses interested in free ENWORKS support:
www.getsupport.enworks.com