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We Are Here To Help You Communicate Your Social Value Effectively At Variegate Growth, we simplify and highlight your valuable work using: ✅ Tailored templates to tackle tender questions. ✅ On-the-ground support to deliver initiatives with community partners. ✅ Impact reports aligned with KPIs and CSR goals for stakeholders. The UK’s focus on Social Value in procurement means businesses must now demonstrate real contributions to sustainability, inclusion, and economic growth in their tenders. This shift brings challenges in cultural transformation, supplier readiness, and effective market engagement but also big opportunities to create lasting impact. If you’re ready to save time, resources, and make a difference, connect with us and learn how we can help you succeed. Support With Tenders: https://lnkd.in/eehwDjjQ Support With Community Partnerships: https://lnkd.in/e2nxb2sU #SocialValue #TenderSupport #ESG #Sustainability #PublicProcurement

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Impact report #3 🥂 We're very excited to launch the third edition of our #impactreport! As it's our first since becoming a certified #bcorp, this latest edition focuses on B Lab UK 's impact areas of: #governance, #people, #customers and #environment. Check it out here: https://bit.ly/3ShRXQK

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Keep an eye on your inboxes - our latest bulletin lands today! 👀 Alongside sharing the latest news from the Digital Strategy team, our monthly bulletin highlights events and initiatives from across the wider digital sector. Here's what you can expect to see in this month's issue: 📌 Early insights into our digital sustainability projects, and how we're aiming to challenge climate change in Manchester. 📌 Post-event reflections on AI for All, including our next steps. 📌 Details on how our partnership with Glenluna Ventures and Manchester Digital could help us to better understand the strengths and challenges of our start-up ecosystem - and the ways in which you can get involved! 📌 Our monthly summary of the most exciting events, conferences and training opportunities taking place across Manchester. Not yet subscribed? 📬 To avoid missing out, head to the link in the comment to sign up via our mailing list! 👇

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Every year, we commit 5% of our time and resources to pro-bono work and a further 5% to voluntary services. But, what does this mean for our local community? Read our impact report in the comments to find out more. B Lab UK   #BCorp #SocialImpact #ImpactReport

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With people at the heart of organisations, it makes sense that social sustainability is at the heart too! Our new guide provides a helpful overview to get started, including: • Understanding social sustainability • The disclosure landscape • Implementing social sustainability • Support available on your journey Read the guide today: https://lnkd.in/eQnSN8Mq #SocialSustainability #BCorp #ForceForGood #ESG #EcoVadis

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WEBINAR: 'Key Trends in Social Sustainability' - TOMORROW Don't miss the chance to join IEMA Fellow Beth Knight as we discuss key trends in this field, including the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) Beth has been at the forefront of driving #socialsustainability and transformational change in large multinationals including Amazon, Accenture, EY and Lloyds Banking Group for almost 20 years. Book now: https://bit.ly/3YPF8yY Beth Knight also spoke with IEMA's Chris Seekings about increased recognition of social sustainability in our summer issue of Transform. "The skills required mean that we need to be developing all the time in this sort of work, but it’s the most important work there is because it’s about how our society operates and the problem-solving needed to deliver complex systems change. Social sustainability is the next big point of acceleration for our profession, and I’m choosing to focus my efforts there.” Read now: https://bit.ly/3CM2zBQ

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Today marks a significant milestone in the fight against climate change as the largest ever national net zero business census is launched in the UK.  ​ The UK Net Zero Business Census launched today by the UK Business Climate Hub in partnership with Planet Mark aims to establish a benchmark for the private sector's contributions towards the UK's national 2050 net zero target. You can make a difference and join businesses across the UK contributing to the largest initiative of its kind! Whether you have set net zero targets or not, your input matters, the data collected will inform policy and investment decisions as we transition towards net zero. #businessasaforceforgood #uknetzerobusinesscensus

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💬 "High-level, generic demand for investment must be turned into viable, bankable projects that attract low-cost tailored capital. The question is how best to support local authorities to generate this?" Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE, CEO, Green Finance Institute and Adele Gritten, CEO, Local Partnerships LLP explain why bridging the local delivery gap will mobilise national net zero investment in their latest article for TheMJ. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eDcZCt-e

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This is the kind of useful overview of council climate action that Climate Emergency UK CIC Council Climate Scorecards have produced. No one else is compiling these stats on a UK wide basis. You can view more stats on the section pages of the Scorecards here: https://lnkd.in/ehzXrVR4

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🎉 Top 3 ESG Agency in the UK!   Climate communications is now a core part of almost every corporate affairs director’s to do list. Our top 3 position in PR Week’s top ESG communication consultancies list means we can help corporates committed to making a demonstrable change in their climate impact communicate openly and effectively. #Blakeney #ESG

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For #EarthDay 2024 we’re revisiting our landmark report “How to Build a Net Zero Society” 🌏 As behavioural scientists, we’re keenly aware of how patterns in human behaviour impact the planet. 🚯 In the UK alone, households throw away nearly 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging every year. 🚘 Transport produced 26% of the UK's total emissions in 2021 🍟 40% of food in the UK is wasted, most of it ending up in landfills after a huge amount of water and land is also wasted to produce it Learn how we can encourage consumers around the world to adopt greener habits at the link below👇 https://bit.ly/3UrLYJZ #EarthDay2024 #sustainability #climatechange #environment

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Our new Impact Report for 2023-24 is now live! 🌿 This year's report shines a spotlight on all the ways we made a positive societal and environmental impact as an organisation over the past year, as well as highlighting how we have progressed our commitments made in the five #BCorp areas of Governance, Environment, Customers, Community and People. Inside this year's report we detail how we: 🏅 Recertified as a B Corp with a sector-leading score of 110.6; 📉 Set ambitious targets for reaching Net Zero; 🎯 Outlined a three-year strategy to maximise the impact of our work; 🎓 Took steps to ensure we are a disability-confident employer; ...and much more. We'll be sharing all of the brilliant stories contained inside over the coming days - or you can read them all now by following this link: https://lnkd.in/eAWPVqTi #impactreport #sustainability #netzero

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Our online climate guide has been updated with brand new case studies! The examples cover a range of actions that planners can take to address climate change, categorised into key themes and topic areas. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/efXVuBRG #ClimateChange #Planning #NetZero #Sustainability #Flooding #FloodRisk #SustainableTransport #ActiveTravel #SustainableDesign #LowCarbon

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Design for all. ‘The EAA emphasises a ‘design for all’ or universal design approach. This approach aims to create ‘products, environments, programmes and services to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialised design’. However, it’s important to note that if a product or service, even if designed inclusively, remains inaccessible, further adjustments or accommodations may still be required under National or Union law.’ The European Accessibility Act is coming into effect on 28th June 2025. Read this great resource by Business Disability Forum to learn more on how it impacts your business.

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Manifest-oh no you didn't! With a general election approaching, the stakes couldn't be higher for local climate action. According to Christopher Hammond, a former council leader and UK100 chief executive, "the road to a cleaner, healthier and more prosperous future runs through town halls, not Whitehall." But councils face mounting barriers: ❌ The alarming spread of climate misinformation ❌ Lack of support for critical Local Area Energy Plans ❌ Fragmented funding pots hampering vital home retrofits Politics is becoming increasingly polarised, trust is at a low, and years of climate consensus and action is it at risk. 👉 The solution? Putting local climate action at the heart of devolution in the next parliament. Read Hammond's urgent call to action on Unlock Net Zero. The hard work starts on July 5 - and there's no time to lose. 🤔 How is your council accelerating climate action? What support do they need from the next government? Let us know in the comments!

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Are you looking to work with the NHS or public sector bodies on a Framework Agreement? 🏥 Are you struggling to try and do you own data collection and emissions measurements? 🤔 Well Ecologi | B Corp™ can help you 💫 All submissions to public sector Framework Agreements now require a Carbon Reduction Plan (CRP) inline with the #PPN0621. To see an example report, and find out how we can support you in your submission - click below: https://lnkd.in/gVvq44NT #sustainability

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"Art of Sustainability Carbon Literacy Training was informative, playful, and grounding." https://lnkd.in/e5e7qicJ The Carbon Literacy Project Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll #netzero #esg #sustainability #climateaction

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The final months of 2024 will see a rush of major #sustainability events that New Narrative's Jodie Hill-Kitcherside argues have the potential to be much more than talk shops. In this article she explains why we stand at a crucial juncture in the drive to mobilise the financial services sector in the service of climate action. https://lnkd.in/ehB_cpvN

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