It can be difficult to know what is available in terms of grants, funding, and support. Below are some useful links to help you on your way.
FUNDING AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT
New Anglia Growth Hub offers free, impartial advice to businesses and can signpost you to grants, funding opportunities, and more information. A few grants/programmes available are:
Business Transition to Net Zero Grant
This grant is aimed at businesses in Norfolk and Suffolk with ambitions to reduce their carbon footprint and increase productivity.
Grants between £25k and £100k are available, with a maximum intervention rate of 20% of the cost of the development. To be awarded a minimum of £25k, you must show total project costs of at least £125k. CLICK HERE
For more details, call the New Anglia Growth Hub on 0300 333 6536 or email [email protected]
NatWest A Green Loan from NatWest aims to help eligible UK businesses finance business assets to support their sustainability ambitions, such as solar panels, electric vehicles, or heat pumps on commercial buildings, that fall within the eligible list, which has been developed by the bank and is subject to review and change on an ongoing basis.
TOOLS AND RESOURCES
Groundwork East helps businesses and organisations of all shapes and sizes cut their costs, rise to the challenge of reducing their carbon impact and be more efficient and resilient
Norfolk Insight explores data relating to the environment in Norfolk
Norfolk and Suffolk Unlimited Take a look at how Norfolk and Suffolk are achieving their targets
Norwich BID is doing lots of exciting things, recently becoming an established Net Zero Waste Champion. They can help you save money on business costs, attract new customers and increase your sustainability for free with Norfolk BIDs Net Zero Waste Project
Net Zero East is a new initiative seeking to collaborate with local stakeholders across the East of England to find innovative solutions that facilitate and accelerate the transition to Net Zero by 2050
SME Climate Hub offers lots of advice on how small business can deliver their climate goals
UEA Climate Team tells their collective climate story during this critical time for our planet. Pioneers of climate research for nearly 50 years, we use world-leading expertise to tackle the unprecedented environmental and social challenges caused by climate change
The Climate Pledge is a call to businesses and organizations to take collective action on the world’s greatest crisis and to work together to build toward a safe and healthy planet for the next generation
The Energy Saving Trust has lots of handy tools for you to use, such as saving money on your bills to low carbon travel
Green Claims Code More people than ever are concerned about the environmental impact of the products and services that they buy. That’s why the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has developed the Green Claims Code – which sets out 6 key points to check your environmental claims are genuinely green.
Carbon Charter provides support and recognition to small and medium-sized businesses that commit to and adopt carbon reduction measures and sustainable business practices throughout Suffolk and Norfolk. The Charter is available to help you on your way and offers tons of support and advice on things like first steps, funding, events, how to gain a Carbon Certification and make a pledge as well as advice on how to write an Environmental Action Plan.
Our guide for SMEs on reducing their carbon footprint and environmental impact would add some additional insight for your readers.
RMS Retail Merchant Services is an SME’s guide to reducing your carbon footprint and environmental impact
It also shares valuable information, including:
- The benefits of being net zero as an SME
- How to calculate your business’s carbon footprint
- Reporting your carbon footprint
- Actionable ways to reduce emissions, both as a brick-and-mortar and online SME
Some of the research RMS have found:
- The digital footprint of the internet accounts for as much as 3.7% of all greenhouse gas emissions, and this figure is expected to double by 2025.
- SMEs in the UK generate 25.8m tonnes of CO2 every year.
- The government is planning to launch two more energy efficiency schemes from 2022, including the Clean Heat Grant, which provides upfront capital funding to any business using green heating technologies.
- SMEs issuing company cars can switch to electric. Electric cars produce 3 times less carbon than regular vehicles!
With reputational, financial, and competitive rewards, SMEs really need to become aware of the help that’s available for them when lowering carbon emissions.
Resilience Brokers Gives advice and support on how to become a local Zero Net Waste Champion
Scoop allows businesses to easily track the waste, recyclable and reusable materials they produce
Digital Action Norfolk Collect computers, laptops, phones, audio equipment, headphones and more, which are then refurbished to be resold or made into art and robots by students and schools so, resulting in nothing going to landfill. Plus they do free safe data wiping
Hub Fizz offers snappy, weekly 10-minute youtube videos packed full of interesting and valuable information on how to grow your business and make it greener
The show is live-streamed to YouTube every Tuesday at 11 am (UK time) apart from a few breaks over the year.
Lots of our members are doing great things for Net Zero, please visit our directory
Note: We will update this page regularly with any new information.
