Beat the heat programme
Beat the Heat is a programme designed for the independent/community sector that combines an environmental audit with seminar sessions, ensuring follow through to the audit process, so that the audit recommendations turn into actions.
The sessions offer a vital support structure where participants can:
- compare and review audit recommendations, outcomes, difficulties
and resource needs; - identify money-saving opportunities;
- identify opportunities for collective procurement;
- gather advice on effective sustainability practice (particularly around complexissues such as biofuels, offsets and enterprise);
- tender with ‘green’ supply chains.
Julie’s Bicycle’s first Beat the Heat was provided as a pilot with 15 small to medium music companies between November 2007 and April 2008.
Participation reflected activity across the industry and included not-for-profits and social enterprises. For more information about this pilot, please see the Beat the Heat Pilot case study.