Join Groundwork’s Sustainability Consultants at 11am on Thursday 4th December 2025 for a special Sustainability Shorts webinar designed specifically for the charity and VCSE sector.
This webinar aims to help VCSE leaders and managers understand what “Net Zero” means, identify typical carbon emission categories for charities, set a Net Zero target, and begin reducing emissions, even when there are 101 other priorities and limited resources.
Why Groundwork?
We are a team of business consultants working within Groundwork, a federation of charities taking action on poverty and the environment across the UK. Because we ourselves are a charity, we understand the challenges that organisations face when asked to understand, manage, and reduce emissions. In this webinar, we’ll speak openly about the challenges we have faced, past and current, and share how we’ve addressed them.
In addition to supporting the Groundwork federation with greenhouse gas reporting, we have extensive experience working with national and local charities such as the RSPCA, the Woodland Trust and the Vipassana Trust.
We also support the sector through grant programmes. Last year, we led the DCMS VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme: our Sustainability Consultants conducted numerous energy-efficiency audits and made low-carbon technology recommendations, and our Grants team distributed £18.3 million in funding to 320 community organisations to support capital measures for reducing carbon emissions.
What to expect at the webinar
This Sustainability Shorts webinar will feature a 30-minute presentation by Sustainability Consultants Amy Coulter and Olivia Roberts, followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.
Topics include:
- The pathway to Net Zero
- Groundwork’s carbon reduction journey to date
- Typical carbon emissions categories within the VCSE sector
- Suggested carbon reduction actions
- Investment and funding opportunities
Registration
This webinar is free to attend and open to all, but is specifically geared toward the VCSE sector.
Click the link below to register your interest. Then, on Thursday 4th December at 11am, join via Teams link provided.
We look forward to seeing you then!