Footnotes 2012 archive

Avery Green Office Week to launch at the O2!

March 15th 2012

We've assembled the cream of the green crop for an exciting event taking place on Monday 19th March during Business 2012 at London's O2 to officially kick-start Avery Green Office Week 2012. 

Now in its fourth year, Avery Green Office Week is an action-packed week full of fun, practical ideas to help empower UK offices and business to work in greener ways. Taking place in May the week aims to raise awareness, education and prompte discussion around the key issues at stake and inspire UK workers to impact real change.

Green Working: Ask the Experts is your opportunity to ask all those niggly questions about how you could make your workplace a greener space and get free input from some of the best brains in the business. Two sessions are running, the first 11.15-11.45am and the second 3.00-3.30pm on Monday 19th March.  To register for your FREE place, click http://www.business2012.com/exhibitors/avery-green-office-week#seminar-1815

Our prestigious panelists are:

Nicky Amos: Our host, Nicky, has been at the cutting-edge of CSR since the mid-90s and has a wealth of in-house and consultancy experience in shaping corporate responsibility and community investment strategies in the UK and internationally.

Ben Kellard: Ben is Principal Sustainability Advisor at Forum for the Future, working with leading organisations to create a more sustainable future. Ben specialises in advising on the strategy, organisational change and leadership development aspects of sustainable development.

Paul McKinney: Paul is Head of Advice Dissemination at the Carbon Trust and heads-up their SME activity.  His focus is providing practical and accessible information to employees and managers to inform and encourage them to take energy saving action.

Amy Fetzer: Amy is a freelance journalist, author and consultant specialising in sustainability. Her book, Climb the Green Ladder, empowers and inspires readers to make a difference by giving them the tools to change their workplaces from within.

Max McMurdo: Max is the brains behind reestore, one of the UK's leading, contemporary eco furniture design companies. reestore create iconic, witty design pieces from the everyday items we take for granted, like chairs made from old trolleys, sofas made from baths and table lamps made from reclaimed pipework!

Environment & Energy Awards Success!

March 8th 2012

Thrilled to find out today that Footprint Communications has been shortlisted in the Environment and Energy Awards in the Sustainability Communications Campaign Award category!

These well established national awards celebrate excellence and innovation from businesses and technology providers in the market place. The judging is carried out by a number of industry experts, who, based on the judging criteria for each category, carefully select the shortlisted companies and category winners.

Finalists will be showcased and awards presented on 22nd May at the National Motorcycle Museum during Sustainabilitylive! 2012, the UK’s leading event for the environment, water, land, energy and sustainable business sectors.

Footprint Becomes Green Achiever

February 1st 2012

If you are, or aspire to be, a Green Business, why not show your customers, suppliers, shareholders and anyone that’s interested in your business, what you’re doing for the environment?  We have!

Footprint has registered as a Green Achiever to demonstrate our intentions, celebrate our successes and connect with like-minded business as we progress along our CSR journey.  

There are some great tools too, like a self-assessment programme, a carbon calculator and a business directory which will give you help and support in achieving your objectives.

Check out www.greenachiever.co.uk

A Blueprint for Green Marketing

January 24th 2012

• Are you frustrated that all of your good work hasn’t resonated with your customers through your marketing and that your sustainability messages are simply not gaining you the competitive advantage you deserve?
• Could it be that marketing and sustainability issues work against one another in your organisation? 
• How do you get the balance right without wasting precious marketing budgets or worse, losing brand credibility through accusations of greenwash? 

Footprint Communications, the South’s foremost agency for CSR stakeholder communications, is commissioning research into why audiences find engaging meaningfully with sustainability so difficult.  In so doing, we hope to unlock the secrets of how to bring sustainability to life and provide a blueprint for integrating it into the heart of marketing and public relations success.

If you have anything you’d like to bring to the debate, or indeed have any good (or bad!) examples that you would like to share with us as part of our research, we’d love to hear from you.  Email us at: research@footprint-comms.co.uk.

Alternatively, if you would like to receive the white paper detailing the results of our research please email research@footprint-comms.co.ukwith your contact details and we’ll put you on our priority distribution list as soon as it’s ready.

Sustainable Business Partnership Gains Momentum

January 24th 2012

With a new-look website, brand new member directory and an exciting events programme lined up for 2012, The Sustainable Business Partnership is gaining momentum here across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

Helping businesses become more sustainable in their day-to-day operations, and supporting suppliers and producers in the fast-growing low carbon economy,

To join and share views, products and services with likeminded businesses, visit www.the-sbp.co.uk

TGP CSR Success!

January 24th 2012

Congratulations to our client Total Gas & Power who just scooped a prestigious national industry award recognising the company’s efforts in championing environmental sustainability in communities across the country.

As one of the UK’s leading gas and electricity suppliers to businesses, Total beat off stiff competition from across the UK’s utilities sector to win the coveted ‘Community Initiative of the Year’ award at the Utility Industry Achievement Awards.

The award recognises the Total Green School Awards, established in partnership with charity YPTE, the Young People’s Trust for the Environment. The initiative encourages primary school children aged five to eleven to take a proactive interest in the natural environment around them.  Inspiring the workforce of the future, this is an incredibly innovative scheme which deserves all due credit.