Free support available to help with Business Sustainability
Plato GB Limited has secured funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) to deliver the PLATO: Sustain project across the South-East region.


Between 2009 and 2011, PLATO: Sustain will provide c.160 small and medium sized businesses across the South-East with free access to a unique, specialist, business and personal development programme aimed at improving their business sustainability, and encouraging them to help companies within their supply chains and their own employees to take positive steps to adopt environmental friendly behaviours.

 

The programme is worth more than £3,500 to each SME business participant.


The programme lasts two years culminating in a graduation and award ceremony in October 2011. PLATO: Sustain is an adaptation of the highly successful PLATO programme, a proven method used by 9,000 past participants across Europe, including several hundred in the UK.

 

Plato GB and its partners will work together to provide a unique form of facilitated peer-group learning. This learning proffers expertise and advice to help small and medium sized businesses in the South-East to adopt sustainable business, production, design and innovation practices to improve performance.

The ultimate aim is a measureable reduction in participant companies' contribution to the region's ecological footprint.

 

Why should I participate?
PLATO: Sustain helps businesses improve performance and reduce the region?s ecological footprint by:
- Radically improving personal and business development skills;
- Providing business coaching and problem solving;
- Raising awareness of the cost and benefits of a sustainable business practice;
- Facilitating learning through shared experiences and proven expertise of facilitators;
- Increasing business turnover from new and improved products and processes that have whole life costs built in at every stage of the process, from design to end of life;
- Achieving tangible cost savings by reducing energy, waste and water usage;
- Implementing and supporting employee behaviour change to reduce the carbon footprint of employees as individuals;
- Helping to find better ways of engaging with suppliers to develop "Greener" relationships that maximise opportunities to improve environmental impact;
- Building client bases and supply chains.

 

See flier for more details http://arunbusinesspartnership.co.uk/images/chrisshephard/file/288849PlatoSustainIntroductionforSMEs.pdf



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