Low-cost, low-stress small business Environmental Management Systems

LOW-COST, LOW-STRESS ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES EVERYWHERE

We help small businesses to look after the environment and improve their bottom line.

Green Small Business provides:

a small business-specific approach to developing environmental management systems
a straightforward and cost-effective way for small businesses and other small organisations to manage their environmental impacts
an optional certification process for your environmental management system

Green Small Business can:

increase the markets you can access
save you money
enhance your reputation
help ensure you comply with environmental laws and regulation
improve your environmental performance

Green Small Business will:

work for you because it is specifically designed for small businesses
allow you to get an environmental management system in place quickly
provide a fixed cost solution
give you exceptional value

Green Small Business is suitable for small businesses, sole traders and the self-employed. It is suitable for a wide range of business types across a wide range of sectors but is particularly suited to those with limited environmental impacts. For example, office-based businesses, retail outlets, tradespeople and arts/entertainment businesses.

We’re suitable for office-based businesses

We’re suitable for small construction companies and tradespeople

We’re suitable for retail outlets

We’re suitable for entertainment businesses and arts organisations

Latest news

British glove maker gains Green Small Business certification

Southcombe Gloves, based in the South West of England, has been supplying, designing and manufacturing gloves since 1847. A fifth-generation family-owned and run company, they take their environmental responsibilities seriously and were keen to demonstrate that to their customers. Green Small Business certification provided them with an opportunity to do… Read more

Green certification for arts organisations

We are oh so very excited to announce that LIFT, the London International Festival of Theatre, is the latest organisation to achieve Green Small Business certification. They might be a ‘small’ team but they deliver one of the most important events in the British arts scene, with an influence that… Read more

“We are very excited to be independently certified as a Green Small Business! It will give us even more credibility as an ethical business, so that we can back up that we operate in a way that has as few negative impacts on people and planet as possible”

Bough to Beauty Bespoke

“Thank you so much for the policy and environmental action plan. They are great and show an understanding of our business and the realities of running a business. It will work as a great way of keeping us in check with our own environmental plans and a way of letting clients know about our plans and aims.”

Outerspace UK

“Our environmental policy is fairly out-dated and often falls to the wayside. It can be difficult to engage the whole team to consider our environmental impact so the Green Small Business approach will be a huge help by clarifying our priorities and giving us clear short and long term goals, helping us to achieve our aim of being an exemplar organisation in the cultural sector, leading the way in the fight against climate change”.

Dan Jacques, Finance & Admin Manager, LIFT

“We think it will give confidence to our customers and potential customers that we take our responsibilities to the environment seriously and that Green Small Business has given us a chance to demonstrate this without going down more cumbersome and resource-heavy routes more suited to larger companies”

Alastair Forbes, Southcombe Brothers Ltd

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