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Sustainable business for beginners: How our packages work

Sustainable business for beginners: How our packages work

Whether you’re confused about where to begin, ready to take some serious steps or you already see yourself as a ‘green’ business, The Green Accountants have a range of tailored packages that will accelerate your sustainability journey.

We define every business as either Born Green, Going Green or, if you’re not keeping up, Going Bust. Take a moment to think about which category you currently fit into before reading on.

“I still need convincing / I have no idea where to start” (Going Bust)

I don’t blame you. When it comes to the climate crisis and sustainable business, there are countless things to consider, thousands of solution providers sending you conflicting messages about what to do, and literally billions of pages to read (How to be a sustainable business has over 1.3 billion search results).

Finding the time for all of this is hard, but ultimately if you’re not Going Green, you’re Going Bust. Getting the ball rolling is as simple as starting a conversation:

  • Strategic Review

Our Strategic Review is the first of our sustainability services. This is all about exploring what sustainability means for you – what’s happening in your industry, what opportunities are there to go beyond the traditional boundaries of what you do, and what sustainability trends are unfolding around you.

I work with you to look at your market and your competitors and conduct a case-by-case comparison, right down to what their sustainability plans/policies look like and how they communicate them.

The goal of this exercise is to open your eyes to the strategic opportunities of being an early adopter – a particularly valuable exercise if you still need to win over people within your business who still perceive sustainability as a cost or unnecessary hassle. It’s about getting the ball rolling; natural acceleration will follow.

The Strategic Review is priced at just £300. But if you feel you get no value from it, you don’t have to pay – that’s how confident we are that you will get value from the process.

“The Sustainability First Steps report on Molygran & Co. Ltd from the Big Hand 4 Business Group is very thought provoking and informative. Sophia had clearly taken detailed notes and listened very carefully to our discussions about Molygran’s journey to net zero. This includes what we have already achieved and where we intend to go. The report covers a far wider range of topics than we expected and gives good advice and direction of how we can complete this journey. We will continue to use it over the forthcoming months and taking up offers of assistance in the areas we have least experience in.”

Keith Fairhurst, Molygran & Co Ltd

“I’m ready to act but I need next steps” (Going Green)

Congratulations, you’re Going Green. The next stage is to get a plan together to make the most of the strategic opportunities you’ve identified.

This is where it can get a little overwhelming if you’re thrown into the deep-end too early, which is why we offer a bridging service we call Sustainability First Steps:

  • Sustainability First Steps

The First Steps Report is the ideal preparation and source material for a full-on action plan. It doesn’t force you to run before you can walk, but instead leaves you with a placeholder that will feed into all of your future sustainability work.

I get to know your business on a deeper level through a half-day diagnostic and talk through your business goals and ambitions. We then bring our heads together at The Green Accountants – myself, our in-house business consultants and external partners (more on them below) – and put our recommended way forward to you in the form of a comprehensive, tailored report.

Your report will provide a combination of actionable recommendations and quick wins in areas like:

  • Team engagement and/or recruitment
  • Cost savings
  • Business development
  • Marketing and communications
  • Measurement and reporting

If you’re one of our accounting clients, we’ll keep in touch with you throughout the year and take another comprehensive look at things at our standard nine-month and end-of-year business reviews, so you’ll continue to be supported as you take those next steps.

  • Signposting to solutions

When we write a First Steps report, we bring in knowledge and advice from a hand-picked group of external partners, each of whom have a specific specialism in sustainable business. These partners cover all sorts of skillsets, from carbon footprint reporting to employee engagement and green marketing.

Once we have a good idea of your next steps, we’ll put forward suggestions for solution providers we think can help you most on your journey. We don’t receive a commission or referral fee for sending you their way, so there’s no commercial bias – we simply believe in what they do and we can vouch for their expertise. Many of them have helped us with our own sustainability initiatives!

 

“I’m doing good things already” (Born Green)

If sustainability is already at the heart of what you do, or you already provide sustainable products and services, you’re a Born Green.

But does your accountant share your ethos and principles? Can they extend your good work into your accounting and bookkeeping? The answer is probably no.

The Green Accountants are, after all, accountants. Our bespoke tax planning services will make sure your sustainability initiatives (as well as the rest of your business) are as tax-efficient as possible. You can also benefit from our innovative approach to green bookkeeping:

  • Green Bookkeeping

Our unique Green Bookkeeping system has been developed with external partners to create financial records ideally suited to carbon footprint measurement (including Scopes 1, 2 and 3), so you won’t need to duplicate time and effort when pulling your figures together and creating reports.

Ready to get the ball rolling?

Found what you needed? Get in touch with us today to discuss which package works for you, or connect with me on LinkedIn and we’ll take it from there!

 

 

 

 

Sophia Anthony

Our resident eco-warrior, Sophia harnesses her passion for the environment and experience working in sustainability by leading the ‘Green’ part of The Green Accountants. Helping our clients make sustainable decisions is her main role, but she also spends a good chunk of time keeping the rest of us in line as well. Sophia is passionate about all things outdoors and, as a proud DogMum, loves to spends her weekends climbing, hiking and wild swimming with her Welsh collie.

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