Green Digital Academy
Are you a micro, small or medium business based in Conwy, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Gwynedd or Anglesey?
Would you like to improve your green credentials and reduce your carbon footprint?
Then the Green Digital Academy is here to help you make those changes.
The Green Digital Academy is here to support businesses who see the value of using new digital technologies, accelerate efficiency, productivity, carbon reduction and to reduce costs. Working with a mentor, we can help you to evaluate your current position and undertake a diagnostic on your business, develop a plan to identify training and funding to support you to reduce your carbon footprint.
Sustainability Hub
- Sustainable Business Guide
- Carbon literacy course (external site)
Why should you join the Green Digital Academy?
This project will work with you to take your business on an innovation journey to help you:
- Gain a competitive edge and boost your reputation as a green business
- Understand your net zero and digital priorities and how to take action
- Quickly adapt to increasing government net zero regulations and contractor pressure
- Expand your business by developing new innovative solutions to sell into the growing ‘net zero’ market
- Meet growing consumer demand for environmentally-friendly products and services
- Increase profits, cut production costs and find energy efficient measures
- Enhance your supply chain credentials by integrating sustainability into procurement
What will you get?
Through the project you will be able to access fully-funded consultancy support in the form of an expert mentor who will work with you to evaluate where your business is today.
They will help carry out a net zero diagnostic of your business and your employee’s carbon output, including car travel, energy usage/consumption, waste disposal and use of materials, as well as a detailed diagnostic on digital capabilities. This will produce an individual report and bespoke road map for your business.
They will then work with you to develop a plan that will help you identify and access funding and training to successfully engage with and use digital technology to reduce your carbon footprint, and support the delivery of the road map for your business.
Through the Green Digital Academy you can access decarbonisation capital and digital grants up to £10,000 which will help reduce your emissions and make your business more sustainable.
Don't delay in contacting the Green Digital Team as the grants are only available till December 2024.
Case Studies
Through the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund, Busnes@LlandrilloMenai has been working with businesses across Conwy, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Gwynedd and Anglesey to reduce their carbon footprint through the Green Digital Academy. The fully-funded programme provides expert mentoring and advice to help micro, small and medium businesses adapt to a net zero future.
For more information
Fill in the form below, or contact the Green Digital Academy on:
- greendigital@gllm.ac.uk
- 08445 460 460
The Green Digital Academy has received £1.4m from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund’.
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus
