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Stewardship and Sustainability

21 March 2024

Lancaster, United Kingdom

Lancaster University

Challenges

A

  • Addison Project plc

    • 6618

      Addison Project Plc As a family business how do we ensure that we retain our culture, ethos and core values as we grow from being a smaller SME business into broader UK territories?

    • 6621

      Addison Project Plc How can we engage our team more in their personal responsibilities to look after the working environment and fully engage with the initiatives in place and care more about their personal role and impact in it?

    • 6648

      Addison Project Plc How can we effectively encourage our supply chain to respond to our Net Zero commitment? Cicerone Press How can Cicerone encourage more sustainable business practices in our upstream supply chain (paper use, printing, shipping)? Lakeland How do we encourage our supply chain to support our environmental policies? The Rowley Estates How can we work collaboratively with our local business network and suppliers to maximise our sustainability and local sourcing efforts? We need to ensure cost competitiveness and would like to achieve this whilst sourcing locally and collaborating to support business vibrancy in our area.

  • Arden Dies Ltd

    • 6559

      Arden Dies Ltd We have recently introduced a new sustainability team (Responsible Business Team) how do we make sure that this team leads change across the whole organisation?

    • 6565

      Arden Dies Ltd How can we improve our sustainability credentials when we don’t know what to measure or how to measure it?

    • 6637

      Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses How would becoming a B Corp benefit us? The Rowley Estates Our family business is multi-generational and does not have any external investors in its ownership structure, is B Corp status a realistic ambition in the absence of being able to offer equity to our team members and, if so, how would working to have B Corp status benefit our business? Arden Dies Ltd How would we benefit from B Corp accreditation and how do we know when we’re ready to apply?

B

  • Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses

    • 6580

      Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses How to start our responsible carbon journey?

    • 6637

      Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses How would becoming a B Corp benefit us? The Rowley Estates Our family business is multi-generational and does not have any external investors in its ownership structure, is B Corp status a realistic ambition in the absence of being able to offer equity to our team members and, if so, how would working to have B Corp status benefit our business? Arden Dies Ltd How would we benefit from B Corp accreditation and how do we know when we’re ready to apply?

C

  • Cicerone Press

    • 6603

      Cicerone Press Cicerone relies on customer’s appetite for adventure and travel. How should Cicerone encourage and champion sustainable travel?

    • 6648

      Addison Project Plc How can we effectively encourage our supply chain to respond to our Net Zero commitment? Cicerone Press How can Cicerone encourage more sustainable business practices in our upstream supply chain (paper use, printing, shipping)? Lakeland How do we encourage our supply chain to support our environmental policies? The Rowley Estates How can we work collaboratively with our local business network and suppliers to maximise our sustainability and local sourcing efforts? We need to ensure cost competitiveness and would like to achieve this whilst sourcing locally and collaborating to support business vibrancy in our area.

G

  • GA Pet Food Partners

    • 6583

      GA Pet Food Partners As part of GA's net zero plans we propose to provide the local community with 5% of the renewable generation at no cost, this is envisaged to work on a shared battery andmicrogrid system. However, current DNO policy is restrictive to this from a procedural basis even if with existing proven electrical and mechanical methods for safe network decoupling, what methods, partnerships or future policy changes do the academics foresee which would look to encourage industry or community microgrids?

H

  • HMG Paints Limited

    • 6610

      HMG Paints Limited As we grow as a business, how can we ensure our values are wholeheartedly passed on to next generations to continue the business with the same ethos and community focus?

    • 6613

      HMG Paints Limited How can we identify, nurture, and develop the next generation of senior management where there may be some potential gaps if we don't prepare a plan of succession?

    • 6616

      HMG Paints Limited How do we react gracefully to greenwashing and misinformation in the industry?

L

  • Lakeland

    • 6552

      Lakeland Can Plastics be a part of a sustainable world?

    • 6558

      Lakeland What is the most sustainable form of distributing our products to customers – shop, internet, or mail order catalogue?

    • 6648

      Addison Project Plc How can we effectively encourage our supply chain to respond to our Net Zero commitment? Cicerone Press How can Cicerone encourage more sustainable business practices in our upstream supply chain (paper use, printing, shipping)? Lakeland How do we encourage our supply chain to support our environmental policies? The Rowley Estates How can we work collaboratively with our local business network and suppliers to maximise our sustainability and local sourcing efforts? We need to ensure cost competitiveness and would like to achieve this whilst sourcing locally and collaborating to support business vibrancy in our area.

T

  • The Plastic Bottles Co Ltd

    • 6588

      The Plastic Bottles Co Ltd How can the council’s collaborate better to find an inclusive process for recycling?

    • 6591

      The Plastic Bottles Co Ltd How can we educate and market the consumer better and more effectively about Prevented Ocean Plastics?

    • 6594

      The Plastic Bottles Co Ltd The plastic myths are a danger to the consumer as they do not understand the full connotations. This means some may switch to glass or aluminium which in many ways is more harmful to our environment and green foot print. How do we educate people to stop vilifying plastics without full understanding?

  • The Rowley Estates

    • 6490

      The Rowley Estates As caretakers of Eden Valley heritage, in terms of buildings, woodland and farmland, how do we bring sustainability to the forefront of our family estate business organisation and maintain a balance between People, Planet and Profit?

    • 6637

      Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses How would becoming a B Corp benefit us? The Rowley Estates Our family business is multi-generational and does not have any external investors in its ownership structure, is B Corp status a realistic ambition in the absence of being able to offer equity to our team members and, if so, how would working to have B Corp status benefit our business? Arden Dies Ltd How would we benefit from B Corp accreditation and how do we know when we’re ready to apply?

    • 6648

      Addison Project Plc How can we effectively encourage our supply chain to respond to our Net Zero commitment? Cicerone Press How can Cicerone encourage more sustainable business practices in our upstream supply chain (paper use, printing, shipping)? Lakeland How do we encourage our supply chain to support our environmental policies? The Rowley Estates How can we work collaboratively with our local business network and suppliers to maximise our sustainability and local sourcing efforts? We need to ensure cost competitiveness and would like to achieve this whilst sourcing locally and collaborating to support business vibrancy in our area.

W

  • W McClure

    • 6597

      W McClure How does our board need to evolve to oversee, enable and support delivery of an Environmental Management Plan/ Sustainability Strategy?

    • 6600

      W McClure How do we create the right culture and mindsets, engage our people and reinforce the right behaviors?