Making an Impact: 2001 to 2011
Introducing ENWORKS
• Established in 2001; celebrating our tenth anniversary in 2011.
• Delivering internationally recognised environmental business support.
• Advised over 11,500 businesses of all sizes and sectors across the North West.
• Combating market failure decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation.
• Focused on resource efficiency – making more
with less – reducing use of energy / water / materials.
• And risk – converting environmental pressures into
real competitive advantages.
The challenges we face
• Climate change is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen.
The Stern Report.
• Awareness doesn’t always lead to action
- 80% of businesses believe resource efficiency is important
- BUT only 20% plan to take action in 12 months
- Majority are one-off, low-impact interventions
• Common misconceptions – “the environment” is irrelevant / costly / will require new
equipment / is time-consuming / is energy only / is a threat not an opportunity
Headline impacts
Over the last decade ENWORKS has demonstrated its environmental, economic and
social impacts, by helping businesses to achieve:
£100m
Business cost savings
500,000
Tonnes of CO2e savings
7,500
Jobs safeguarded and created
£230m
Sales safeguarded and won
3,333
Adults trained
“What impresses me most about projects such as ENWORKS is they truly are
becoming the change that’s needed in the world.”
Al Gore, former US Vice President
Core services
• On-site reviews to identify resource efficiency improvements and business risks
- Free reports with fully quantified improvement opportunities.
- Ongoing, hands-on assistance with implementing improvements.
- Help with securing finance if necessary, accessing technical support from specialist
consultants, and driving cultural change within businesses.
• Bespoke software – the ENWORKS Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit
- Free access to award-winning software used by Government and public bodies.
- Helps managers to prioritise, track and report on your progress and resulting savings.
• Training and networking
- Up to 40 free seminars/workshops/events a year, at local venues across the NW.
- Includes courses certified by professional bodies, including CIEH and CIWM.
• Information services – Green Intelligence
- Free, fortnightly e-bulletins, bringing the most relevant environmental business news,
information and case studies directly to people’s inboxes, tailored to their business needs.
Business benefits
Our hands-on, one-to-one support helps businesses to:
Cut costs
Boost productivity
Increase profitability
Safeguard and create jobs
Retain and win contracts
Improve corporate reputation
Key
• Businesses
supported with
resource efficiency
by ENWORKS
Financial and environmental savings
We help businesses to reap the financial rewards of improving their environmental
performance…
£152m
Business cost savings per year
We’re helping businesses to boost their bottom lines.
794,200
CO2e savings per year
…reducing company carbon footprints.
6.1m m3
Water savings per year
…protecting precious natural resources.
3.1m tonnes
Material savings per year
…making make more with less.
520,800 tonnes
Waste diversion from landfill per year
…treating residual waste as a fresh resource.
ENWORKS Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit
• Unique web-based software, launched in 2004
• Log, prioritise, manage and report on resource
efficiency actions
• Clear audit trail, traceable to each improvement
opportunity and linked to UK Government
CO2e conversion factors
• Adopted by other English RDAs
and Welsh Assembly Government
 Over 9,500 businesses across the UK
 Tracking over 35,000 efficiency improvements
 Recording total cost savings of over £374 million
 With over 944,000 tonnes CO2e savings
Skills for Resource Efficiency - Energy
Cost Savings from Energy Efficiency - by Method
0%
7%
14%
13%
1%
Behaviour change
Eco design
Environmental technology
On-site renewables
Premises improvement
Process improvement
23%
23%
Procurement change
Switch to biofuel
19%
Investment and return
£23m
£178m
Invested in businesses
Net additional GVA
Public funds secured by ENWORKS
(primarily NWDA & ERDF) to
support business + £23m leveraged
Independent evaluation showed ~£9m
invested in us (2007-2010) delivered net
additional GVA of £178m (1:20 ratio)
£9m current programme value £3.5m ERDF & £5.5m SP
£21.4m
Invested by businesses
9 month average payback period on
achieved savings
15 month average payback period
on pipeline savings
It also showed we outperformed all other
regional environmental business support
programmes and achieved better valuefor-money than the aggregate of all
national environmental programmes & a
range of other traditional business
support packages.
Key success factors
• Mix of public funding sources – no exclusions / all businesses eligible / more cost
effective engagement process
• Partnership of organisations – locally embedded & trusted by beneficiaries and
other stakeholders
• Breadth of services – no barriers, we address energy, water, materials and waste,
covering eco-design, process efficiency, sustainable procurement, legal compliance,
climate change adaptation…. both risk and reward
• Targeted and tailored support – linked to the potential to make savings, hands-on
on-site advice and off-site services, focus on cost effectiveness and impact
• ENWORKS Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit – data is turned into information, it
both catalyses action in business and the sharing of best practice across the project
Get in touch or find out more
Samantha Nicholson, ENWORKS Director
E: [email protected]
T: 0161 245 4764
www.enworks.com
@enworks2001
www.linkedin.com/company/enworks
Green Intelligence - fortnightly emails of green business news and case studies:
www.greenintelligence.org.uk
ENWORKS In a Box – sharing our learning and experiences:
www.enworksinabox.com
Website for businesses interested in free ENWORKS support:
www.getsupport.enworks.com
GM Local Impact Report:
www.enworks.com/local-impact
Video case study