win £4,500 to make your small enterprise inexperienced

The Authorities has teamed up with BT, SSE and NatWest to search out Britain’s most inexperienced small enterprise, providing money prizes value £4,500 every to winners.

To enter, small companies should present what steps they’ve already taken to realize net-zero carbon emissions, in keeping with the UK’s goal to be carbon impartial by 2050.

The perfect Heroes of Internet Zero entries will likely be invited to attend the COP26 worldwide local weather change summit in Glasgow on November 2, the place the winners will likely be introduced and obtain an unique prize bundle value £4,500:

• 21 hours consultancy with an power supervisor and one-year free entry to SSE’s ‘enterprise power intelligence’ power administration platform, value £3,500
• Six hours of mentoring with a NatWest enterprise supervisor from its local weather accelerator programme, serving to successful companies acquire local weather pleasant abilities in accessing new markets to attracting expertise
• As much as £1,000 in vouchers to entry a brand-new digital promoting help bundle from BTto develop your corporation

enter Heroes of Internet Zero

The competitors is open to UK companies with fewer than 50 staff and break up into two classes, every with the chance to win a £2,500 prize bundle.

Micro companies – 1-9 staff

Small companies – 10-50 staff

To enter the Heroes of Internet Zero competitors, companies should commit by means of the UK Enterprise Local weather Hub to realize web zero by 2050.

Entrants should then describe in 200 phrases the measures they’ve taken on the journey to net-zero.

The winners and shortlist in every class will likely be chosen by judges Andrew Griffith MP, the UK’s Enterprise Internet Zero Champion; James Shut from NatWest Group; Gabrielle Giner from BT; and Marta Sensible from SSE.

A 2020 surveyby the European Funding Financial institution discovered that over a 3rd of UK enterprise consider decreasing CO₂ emissions has a constructive influence on demand for services and products.

Mr Griffith mentioned: “The Heroes of Internet Zero competitors offers UK companies of all sizes an unique alternative to showcase how they’re decreasing greenhouse fuel emissions within the run as much as COP-26.

Competitors winners will prepared the ground by sharing inventive examples of actions each UK enterprise can take to assist us construct again greener.”

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