The founder of Sustainable Business Services has toldd how new funding could fuel growth. James Staniforth launched Sustainable Business Services two and a half years ago, offering firms help with reducing their environmental impact and making cost-effective use of resources. The consultancy now operates Newcastle and York bases and counts companies such as AV Dawson, Cleardata and Katmex among its customers.
Now £10,000 of funding from the North East Small Loan Fund, administered by NEL Fund Managers, aims to support hiring of new consultants in the hope of winning new clients across the country.
Mr Staniforth said: "A commitment to sustainable business practices has become a mainstream part of the public and private sectors’ ways of working in recent years, to the point that many large businesses won’t allow supply chain companies to bid for work from them without knowing what they’re doing to mitigate their environmental impact. It’s easy to generate lots of data around this important issue, but without human insight into what it means on a practical basis and how it can be utilised to make positive changes to an organisation’s ways of working, it can essentially be meaningless.
