Green Solutions
Is your business looking for support on how to reduce your costs and become greener?
Green Solutions is a programme that offers support to businesses in Staffordshire Local Authority areas (except Stoke-on-Trent) to enable you to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Green Solutions is funded by Stafford Borough Council, South Staffs District Council and East Staffordshire District Council using UK Shared Prosperity Fund, and Staffordshire County Council.
You can access support from any of these:
- Carbon Literacy Training. This FREE 8-hour training course will provide you the knowledge and skills to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. You can choose whether to attend an in-person or online course, and the training is accredited by the Carbon Literacy Project, you can book a place on the course on our website.
- Energy Efficiency Review. This FREE review will look at your energy consumption and provide you with recommendations to save money and reduce your carbon emissions.
- Low Carbon Grant. A grant of between £1,000 and £20,000 (cover up to 50% of eligible costs) is available per business to implement any of the recommendations from the Energy Efficiency Review.
Visit the SCC website to express your interest.
Green Loan Scheme
We are now offering businesses in Staffordshire the opportunity to spread the cost of implementing energy efficient measures to their premises with our new Green Loan Scheme.
Businesses who have had or who are undergoing an energy assessment will be able to apply for a Green Loan for 100% of the cost of the report recommendation.
What we are offering:
- 100% upfront for implementing the recommendation
- Two year pay back period
- Interest free
- No administration fee
- Loans from £5,000 up to £200,000
- Green Solutions grant funding can be used to pay back 50% of the loan
- Loan can be applied for at any stage of the grant process.
Visit the SCC website to express your interest.
Carbon Literacy Training
To help your business reduce your costs and your carbon footprint at the same time, we are offering one FREE place per Staffordshire based business (excludes Stoke-on-Trent area) on a Green Solutions Carbon Literacy Training (CLT) course.
Carbon Tracker
Carbon Tracker is SBEN’s online carbon foot printing and reporting tool that enables Staffordshire organisations to measure carbon emissions from their energy use, fuel use, travel, water consumption and energy generation.
- Funded through Staffordshire County Council and developed by SBEN with The Environmental Quality Mark CIC, Carbon Tracker is available free to eligible Staffordshire organisations.
- Carbon Tracker will help businesses measure business carbon emissions year on year, so they can focus their actions to reduce emissions and achieve Net Zero. A report will be generated for you to share with your board, colleagues, and customers to demonstrate your yearly progress.
Low Carbon Business Evolution Programme has now ENDED*
The Low Carbon Business Evolution Programme (LCBEP) helps businesses across Stoke on Trent & Staffordshire LEP reduce their carbon footprint and increase energy efficiency by taking advantage of:
- A FREE specialist low carbon review around Energy Efficiency
- Grant funding of between £2,000 – £20,000 (up to 60% of your net costs covered) to help businesses implement recommendations.