Jacky Sherman 
Wells & Co, – greener brewing
As the pub trade makes it way out of its toughest period in living memory, much focus has rightfully been placed on the financial side…
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"Environmental networking for the smart business"
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Legislation Matters
Understand the regulations, don't get caught out
Seminars and events
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Benefits
Member Benefits
We work with you to make your company greener
Make a Difference
We aim to promote what our companies are doing to make a difference. Being a Network member gives you access to other like-minded companies who can help you reduce your carbon emissions, introduce better systems, and make improvements.
Best Practice
Our members are generous with their expertise. We encourage each other to share ideas and best practice to improve environmental performance and save money.
Manage Impacts
If you’re just starting out, or if you are a seasoned professional, you will gain ideas or information from the Network that will help you to stay within the law, manage and reduce your environmental impacts.
Free Seminars
Our seminar programme is free to members and our expert speakers cover a wide range of topics that are designed to help businesses cut carbon emissions, produce less waste and behave in a responsible and sustainable way.
Us
about us
The Green Business Network (GBN) is a membership organisation and a Charity, which helps businesses reduce their impact on the environment.
GBN brings together like‐minded businesses to help each other reduce energy and water consumption, eliminate waste, design products more sustainably, increase biodiversity on‐site, manage impacts, and put environmental issues at the heart of your company’s decision making.
We can also help you reduce your liabilities by understanding your legal obligations.
We have been doing this for more than 25 years
Why we need to cut our carbon emissions:
The climate change crisis explained.
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Team
Our Team
We understand the environment and provide quality guidance.
Jacky Sherman
Acting Chair Connect
Jane Varley
Manager Connect -
Sue Rapley
Company Secretary Connect
Sian Pritchard
GBN Treasurer Connect -
2 weeks
Record for the UK
using only renewable energy
1000,000 bottles
Made a minute, 91% of which
are not recycled
45.93
Trees it takes to absorb
1 tonnne of CO2
40%
Of the world’s insect species
are in decline
Service
Why Select Us?
In addition to our free to member services, we also offer the following to member companies at a reasonable cost.
We help you to create an environmental management system to meet the requirements of ISO 14001. This Standard is internationally recognised and is often a requirement when tendering for contracts. Find out more about our Preparing for ISO 14001 Certification training course.
Behavioural Change
Workshops
Workshops
We can provide bespoke workshops or training sessions to help you effect behavioural change in your workplace. Gaining staff buy-in is essential to the success of reducing your environmental impacts.
Grants and
Funding
Funding
GBN can help you to identify grants and funding to support environmental initiatives, or green innovation, and then guide you through the application process.
Audits and
Surveys
Surveys
We can arrange for an auditor to visit your site to conduct either an ISO 14001 external audit, or an energy, water, transport or waste survey. This will help you to reduce emissions, cut down waste, and is likely to save you money.
Our new and exclusive networking group for businesses offering green products and services. You will attend regularly with your peers and benefit from being part of a Network of companies willing and able to introduce you to business leaders who want to buy green
Reduce Waste
Costs
Costs
Opportunities to reduce waste disposal costs or even make money from your waste by participating in waste minimisation and waste exchange programmes.
Case-Studies
and PR
and PR
If you need help to shout about your achievements, we can help by providing you with press releases, cases studies, and advice on how to publicise the great work that you’re doing in traditional and social media.
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Testimonials
What people say
Thought Provoking
I have found the seminars to be very thought provoking. They cover a range of topics, which I have found useful to enhance my knowledge of sustainability and how this impacts our day-to-day lives, and this helps us to build environmental considerations into the decisions we make as a business.
Delighted
We're delighted to have joined the Green Business Network. We've already benefitted from attending seminars about improving the efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions from transport, and now have tools to evaluate and minimise our energy usage across the business. We have made a commitment to achieve a net zero emissions target by 2021, and the knowledge base accessible through the Green Business Network will be a valuable resource to help us achieve this.
Friendly and Welcoming
I joined GBN to help make our business more environmentally conscious. I learned lots of helpful ideas and tips that I could share with my business at the monthly seminars. The GBN members are friendly and welcoming, and I found the time to network, which was useful in building relationships with other businesses and sharing ideas.
Price
Pricing Table
Our membership fees are based on company size and employee numbers
Green Support
£120/year
- Networking
- Seminars
- Offers
- Signposting
Green Connectors
£240/year
- Networking
- Seminars
- Offers
- Signposting
Green Combined
£300/year
- Networking
- Seminars
- Offers
- Signposting
Price
Pricing Table
Start up
1-49 Employees
£120/year
- Networking
- Seminars
- Offers
- Signposting
Small
10-49 Employees
£60/year
- Networking
- Seminars
- Offers
- Signposting
Medium
50-99 Employees
£125/year
- Networking
- Seminars
- Offers
- Signposting
Large
100 + Employees
£150/year
- Networking
- Seminars
- Offers
- Signposting
Latest
Latest News & Case Studies
A selection of our latest reading
News
Plastic Packaging Tax – don’t be caught out
If you manufacture or import plastic packaging you need to know about The Plastic Packaging Tax (General) Regulations, which were adopted into UK law on…
Interim Office of Environmental Protection replaces European Commission
Ahead of its formal establishment anticipated by the Environment Bill, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has launched on an interim basis. The OEP has replaced the…
Case Studies
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GRF Engineering
“Not only has our environmental awareness increased, but we’ve also got a much better grasp of the legislation that applies to us and what we…
Dunstablians Rugby Club
Electricity costs down by £5870, 157 fewer skip collections, £1859.95 saved – bills more than halved
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Events
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Contact
Get in Touch
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Contact us: 07792-480986 [email protected]
About us
GBN a membership charity, which helps businesses reduce their impact on the environment.
Where to find us
Jane Varley, Manager
Green Business Network
PO Box 3699
Olney
MK16 6AZ
Keep in touch
Here for you
Contact us: 07792-480986 [email protected]
About us
GBN a membership charity, which helps businesses reduce their impact on the environment.
Where to find us
Jane Varley, Manager
Green Business Network
PO Box 3699
Olney
MK16 6AZ
The Green Business Network is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, Registration Number 1069759Address: PO Box 3699, Olney MK16 6AZ