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Making an Impact in the Liverpool City Region Making an impact in the Liverpool City Region £10m 51,700 593 £27m 2,034 Business cost Tonnes of CO2e Local jobs saved Sales safeguarded Local businesses savings to date savings to date and created and won assisted The ENWORKS partnership is a unique, internationally recognised, environmental business support service, working with businesses in the Liverpool City Region and across the North West since 2001. ENWORKS help hundreds of We offer businesses free, on-site Our focus is firmly on improving businesses across the Liverpool reviews to identify opportunities for resource efficiency – making more City Region every year. improving resource efficiency, along with less – but we also address with ongoing practical help with pertinent issues such as: corporate Its hands-on support has helped implementation, tailored information responsibility, environmental risk businesses to turn environmental services, and a range of training and management, legal compliance, risks into opportunities and to grow networking events. carbon footprinting, climate change and thrive, by: adaptation, greening supply chains We also help businesses to use and sustainable procurement. the ENWORKS Online Resource Cutting costs Efficiency Toolkit. This bespoke Boosting productivity software allows them to prioritise and manage their improvement actions Improving profitability and to report on the resulting cost Creating and safeguarding jobs and resource savings in real time. Retaining sales Winning new contracts It’s not rocket science Better resource efficiency means a The market failure associated with Left alone, most local businesses healthier balance sheet. In times of improving environmental performance will fail to take effective action, economic uncertainty it is particularly means businesses often lose out on even if they know they should. crucial for business survival. financial and reputational rewards Simple, low-cost efficiency by failing to take action. Instead they improvements can make a major Low-cost measures to increase become increasingly vulnerable to difference to future prosperity at productivity, cut costs and boost environmental risks. a local level and help to meet jobs and sales can be a lifeline to national and international climate businesses and organisations, change obligations. A survey of North West businesses in addressing the fundamental issues of: 2009 revealed that, without support, just 20% planned to improve their Risk resource efficiency in the following Reward 12 months. Most were only looking at low impact initiatives and it is unlikely Reputation that all of those were implemented. “ 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 CO2 CO2 CO2 2,034 £11m £10m Local businesses Investment in the Business cost assisted Liverpool City Region savings to date ENWORKS has already helped Since 2001, £11 million has been We have funding secured until March 2,034 businesses in the Liverpool invested in Liverpool City Region 2013 and are continuing to invest City Region to reduce their costs businesses through the ENWORKS in the Liverpool City Region to help and environmental risks, and to partnership, primarily by the UK its businesses to realise millions of reap the benefits of improved Government and ERDF. pounds of further cost savings. environmental performance. Key Local businesses supported with resource efficiency by ENWORKS “ Groundwork Merseyside, through the ENWORKS programme, helped us to access a grant of £200,000 to buy a more efficient printing press. With that we’ve been able to create 10 new jobs and without the support of ENWORKS none of this would have been possible.” Alan Steen, production director at ASP Packaging Ltd, Haydock “ The ENWORKS support from Groundwork Merseyside was excellent. Our adviser was very supportive and helpful and I highly recommend this service to others.” Kenny O’Brien, centre manager at Litherland Youth Centre, Litherland CO2 ENWORKS is already helping local businesses in the Liverpool City Region to achieve amazing things, and we have plans to do much more... £30 million Private investment leveraged • We help local businesses of all sizes to make smart investments. CO2 • We’ve already helped local companies to invest £2.9 million, to generate annually recurring cost savings of over £2.3 million. • We’ve also identified £27 million of fresh investment opportunities, with an average payback of just over two years. 593 Local jobs safeguarded and created • We have a proven ability to drive job security and local job creation. • We treat the environment as a business opportunity and we’re playing a CO2 key role in shaping the future employment outlook of local areas. • We’ve so far helped Liverpool City Region businesses to safeguard 405 jobs and to create 188 more. £27 million Sales safeguarded and increased • We make environmental improvements that give local companies a real CO competitive advantage. 2 • We support local businesses to meet their supply chain needs, to retain contracts, and to access new markets. • We’ve already helped local companies to safeguard sales of £9.6 million and to win contracts worth £17 million more. 609 Adults trained • We facilitate knowledge and skills transfer to ensure that environmental improvements in local businesses are sustainable in the long term. • We run regular training and networking events throughout the year, tailored to clients’ needs. • Our workshops and courses cover a wide range of topics, including risk management, regulations, process efficiency and driving cultural change. “ ENWORKS is one hell of a story! This is the sort of stuff that makes me feel amazingly inspired. It is the stuff of incremental impact reduction, in a way that’s delivering real value for wealth creators, for shareholders, for businesses, for communities and for the environment. It is a tremendous achievement.” Sir Jonathon Porritt CBE, co-founder of Forum for the Future CO2 £24 million Business cost savings per year • We help local businesses to boost their bottom line. CO2 • We’ve achieved over £4.1 million of annual cost savings (including 43% at zero capital cost) and we have another £20 million in the pipeline. • From these achieved annual savings we’ve already accrued £10 million of cumulative cost savings to date in local businesses. CO2 144,100 tonnes CO2e savings per year • We’re specialists at helping businesses to reduce their carbon footprints. • We’ve achieved 15,400 tonnes of annual savings in local businesses and CO2 we have another 128,700 tonnes in the pipeline. • From these we’ve already accrued 51,700 tonnes of cumulative savings to date, which is equivalent to the amount you would emit by driving a Hummer from Liverpool to the moon, 400 times. 635,300 m3 Water savings per year • We help businesses to protect precious natural resources by reducing water consumption in products, processes and facilities. • We’ve achieved 93,300 m3 of annual savings in local businesses and we have another 541,900 m3 in the pipeline. • From these we’ve already accrued 401,800 m3 of cumulative savings to date, which is equivalent to filling over 160 Olympic swimming pools. 142,000 tonnes Material savings per year • We take a fresh look at how materials are procured and used, to help CO2 businesses to make more with less. • We’ve achieved 7,500 tonnes of annual savings in the Liverpool City Region and we have another 134,500 tonnes in the pipeline. • From these we’ve already accrued 43,900 tonnes of cumulative savings to date, enough to build more than 16 Blackpool Towers. 187,800 tonnes Waste diverted from landfill per year • We help businesses to increase their re-use, recycling and recovery rates, by treating residual waste as a fresh resource or income stream. • We’ve achieved 10,600 tonnes of annual savings in local businesses and we have another 177,200 tonnes in the pipeline. • From these we’ve already accrued 36,000 tonnes of cumulative savings to date, the weight of about 7,545 African elephant bulls. Case Studies Abbey Logistics Safety, health, environmental Total cost savings: £650,800 pa and quality director, Steve Lucy, said: Food haulage company, Abbey “ We would like to thank Logistics Group Ltd, is based in the team at Groundwork Liverpool. It has one of the largest, Merseyside for their valued insight and support.” privately owned tanker fleets in the UK, including foodstuff tankers, heated chocolate tankers and refrigerated trailers, and uses specialist tanker washing facilities to ensure high standards of food hygiene. After an on-site review by Groundwork Merseyside, all drivers have had fuel-efficient driving training discharged as effluent is channelled and introducing a staff energy and procedures have been introduced back to heat cold water coming in awareness campaign. to improve vehicle maintenance, such from the mains, to clean the tankers. as tyre pressure checks. Together Staff have also been trained in Altogether, annual savings of over with reduced speed limit caps on all using water more efficiently and the £641,600 have been achieved, and tankers, these measures have saved combined initiatives have brought opportunities have been identified £610,000 a year and significantly annual savings of £18,800. to save a further £9,200 a year. reduced the fleet’s CO2e emissions. A further £12,800 has been saved These achieved and identified Water efficiency has been improved from annual energy bills by insulating savings come with annual by installing a wash-water recycling water pipes and tanks to minimise environmental savings of 1,700 system that incorporates heat heat loss, fitting skylights to allow tonnes of CO2e, 653,200 litres recovery. Warm water previously more natural light into work spaces, of fuel and 10,300 m3 of water. KME Yorkshire Copper Tube Facilities manager, Total cost savings: £136,500 pa Alan Ogilvie, said: “ We have benefited from Kirkby-based copper tube Groundwork Merseyside’s manufacturer, Yorkshire Copper Tube advice, support and funding Ltd, is part of the KME Group, the for six years now, through largest producer of industrial copper the ENWORKS programme.
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