Obvious in hindsight:
A strategic insight into successful environmental business support

Revised running order
10.30am
11.15am
11.30am
11.45am
1.00pm
1.30pm
2.30pm
3.45pm
4.00pm
Professor Paul Ekins, University College London
Todd Holden, ENWORKS
Mark Atherton, Northwest Regional Development Agency
Workshops
-- Lunch --
Professor Brian Cox, University of Manchester
Workshops
Samantha Nicholson, ENWORKS
Closing remarks and networking

ENWORKS - An introduction
Todd Holden, Programme Director

Today’s objectives
• Consolidate what we already know
• Share our collective knowledge
• Understand how targets and delivery structures determine the type of impact
• Understand the limits of ‘one to many’ support
• Create an informal virtual network

ENWORKS projects
• 6 Business Environment Associations
• 7 Green Business Parks
• ESF environmental training
• HSE Workplace Health Pathfinder
• Corporate Responsibility project
• 5 Envirowise Resource Efficiency Clubs
• Envirowise client follow-up
• 3 large scale (£22m) environmental / Resource Efficiency programmes
• Environment Connect service
• 7 Innovation Projects
• Defra / BIS research

ENWORKS achievements
• 11,400 businesses advised
• £69m sales increased
• £112m sales safeguarded
• 1,470 jobs created
• 5,620 jobs safeguarded
• £100m annual cost savings
• 303,000 tonnes of CO
2 savings
• 4.2m m 3 of water savings
• 3.1m tonnes of material savings

ENWORKS partnership
Three core elements to our partnership structure:
• Partnership Board
• Central Management Team
• Delivery Partnership

Apples or pears ?
£10m over six years on Resource Efficiency:
£100m annual cost savings (£27m achieved, £73m pipeline)
• Assume 50% of savings are profit, 20% tax, 75% persistence
• Assume VAT of 17.5% on sales increased
• New jobs pay £20k per annum
Over six years, increased income to HMRC is £49.5m