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As a healthy and positive way forward – why not “make do and mend”?! What is ‘make do and mend’ – and what can we do to help save some money? – Sustainable Sidmouth Champion Awards And why not enter for a Champion’s Award!? Enter the Champions Awards 2023 – Sustainable Sidmouth Champion Awards There… Continue reading Lifestyle changes for the New Year!

As we look to next year, there are great business ideas to look to. Here are a few ideas: What-businesses-can-do-to-SAVE-MONEY-SAVE-THE-PLANET.pdf And here are a couple of great suggestions from the Small Business website which should suit the Sid Valley very well – plus keeping sustainability very much to the fore: 6 best small business ideas… Continue reading Ideas to help make your business more sustainable: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

Looking for ideas to help a business be both more competitive and environmentally-friendly? Business Award: activity & project ideas – Sustainable Sidmouth Champion Awards Why not enter or nominate it for an award? Enter the Champions Awards 2023 – Sustainable Sidmouth Champion Awards And one of the top suggestions which satisfies both cutting costs and… Continue reading Ideas to help make your business more sustainable: WFH

Businesses are always looking to ways to bring down costs – and also to engage with customers – and the ideas round a ‘circular economy’ can really help in a very practical way. A ‘circular economy’ simply means that enterprises reuse materials, eliminate waste and repurpose, remanufacture and refurbish – as this graphic shows: What… Continue reading Ideas to help make your business more sustainable: CIRCULAR ECONOMY

One of the many ideas coming out of the Champions Awards 2023 has been to shorten and localise supply lines – itself part of the idea of making business more ‘sustainable’: What is ‘sustainability’ – and how can we help the environment? – Sustainable Sidmouth Champion Awards The latest research suggests this is indeed a… Continue reading Ideas to help make your business more sustainable: SUPPLY CHAINS

There are all sorts of practical ideas and tried & tested actions which businesses can run with to both save costs and ‘save the environment’ a little: What businesses can do to ‘SAVE MONEY: SAVE THE PLANET’ If you know of a business in the Sid Valley which is doing good things, why not nominate… Continue reading Ideas to help make your business more sustainable

A campaign to find the UK’s favourite local business this Christmas has been launched: Campaign searches for the UK’s favourite local business | Housewares News And there’s the attraction of prizes: Win £500 and help us find the UK’s Favourite Local Business. Local businesses are the beating heart of every community serving up the best… Continue reading The UK’s Favourite Local Business

We all want more green spaces… Here’s quite a radical approach to funding and local decision-making – but it’s resulted in some fabulous new ‘green spaces’ – as reported in yesterday’s Observer: Money to grow: radical policy helps UK communities green their own spaces ‘Participatory budgets’ such as one project in east London are revitalising… Continue reading A green project for Sidmouth? GREEN SPACE

There are some fantastic ‘green projects’ emerging – literally on the streets. Today’s Observer has been on the streets of Walthamstow – “about to become its own power station, with solar energy for 30 homes”: Power to the people: the neighbours turning their London street into a solar power station | Solar power | The Guardian Could… Continue reading A green project for Sidmouth? A POWER STATION ON YOUR STREET

There are all sorts of inspiring ideas out there for ‘green projects’ – the sort of thing which could be entered for a Sustainable Sidmouth Champions Award 2023. Radio 4 took us to the back streets of Belfast, to walk through some inspiring urban landscapes: In recent years, residents of some streets have got together… Continue reading A green project for Sidmouth? COMMUNITY ALLEY GARDENING