We are the charity formerly known as Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS)
We are the charity formerly known as Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS)
Active until March 2025, the W&F Green Enterprise Hub was a dynamic initiative dedicated to supporting local organisations on their journey towards decarbonisation and sustainability.
The Hub offered tailored expert advice, training and events, grants, and a vibrant network of partners and collaborators, for small and medium-sized businesses and social enterprises.
The ‘Building Energy Efficiency’ case study series focuses on approaches to improving building performance identified in energy surveys with the target of reducing energy and carbon emissions. Each case study is designed to showcase a range of options to improve building performance, including the types of building, key issues to address for the business and challenges faced. With rising energy prices we want to give you the tools to address this challenge – improving the energy efficiency of your existing buildings is one of the key ways to reduce them.
Wasted food is costing the Hospitality and Food Service Industry £3.2 billion a year, and 75% of the food wasted could have been eaten. The Guardians of Grub Scheme aims to create 20 Guardians of Grub champions who will be able to drastically cut food waste in their organisation. The Hub offered supplementary support to businesses such as data inputting, help with set up and developing waste management plans.
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The ‘Leaving a Legacy’ case study series focuses on five ways of thinking that are at the heart of sustainability: connecting to place, future thinking, sharing knowledge, provenance craft and tradition, creating value from surplus. Each case study is designed to provoke discussion, showcase a range of businesses passionate about sustainability, and to inspire local businesses to think in new ways about how they develop their sustainability (and business) strategy.
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