Obvious in hindsight:

A strategic insight into successful environmental business support

Revised running order

10.30am Professor Paul Ekins, University College London

11.15am Todd Holden, ENWORKS

11.30am Mark Atherton, Northwest Regional Development Agency

11.45am Workshops

1.00pm -- Lunch --

1.30pm Professor Brian Cox, University of Manchester

2.30pm Workshops

3.45pm Samantha Nicholson, ENWORKS

4.00pm Closing remarks and networking

ENWORKS - An introductionTodd Holden, Programme Director

Today’s objectives

• Consolidate what we already know

• Share our collective knowledge

• Understand how targets and delivery structures determine the type of impact

• Understand the limits of ‘one to many’ support

• Create an informal virtual network

ENWORKS projects

• 6 Business Environment Associations• 7 Green Business Parks• ESF environmental training • HSE Workplace Health Pathfinder• Corporate Responsibility project• 5 Envirowise Resource Efficiency Clubs• Envirowise client follow-up• 3 large scale (£22m) environmental / Resource Efficiency programmes • Environment Connect service• 7 Innovation Projects• Defra / BIS research

ENWORKS achievements

• 11,400 businesses advised

• £69m sales increased

• £112m sales safeguarded

• 1,470 jobs created

• 5,620 jobs safeguarded

• £100m annual cost savings

• 303,000 tonnes of CO2 savings

• 4.2m m3 of water savings

• 3.1m tonnes of material savings

ENWORKS partnership

Three core elements to our partnership structure:

• Partnership Board• Central Management Team• Delivery Partnership

Apples or pears ?

£10m over six years on Resource Efficiency:

£100m annual cost savings (£27m achieved, £73m pipeline)

• Assume 50% of savings are profit, 20% tax, 75% persistence• Assume VAT of 17.5% on sales increased• New jobs pay £20k per annum

Over six years, increased income to HMRC is £49.5m