Reasons to sign up for Green Foundation

Green Foundation is designed to help you stay ahead of the curve, by giving you the inspiration and the knowledge you need to introduce sustainability in to your organisational culture. Here’s how Green Foundation can benefit you:

1. Helps you spot opportunities for services, products and resource management that could give your business a competitive edge.
2. Gives you real examples of organisations, including the Eden Project, who have developed low-carbon and environmental practices to benefit their business.
3. Provides a peer-to-peer network of like-minded companies who you can collaborate with.
4. Cuts through the jargon so you can get to grips with climate legislation and understand how it is touching businesses throughout the supply chain.
5. Uses the Eden Project site as a living classroom for an engaging, hands-on learning experience with interactive workshops.
6. Takes you behind the scenes at Eden and gives you access to staff who are dealing with the same day-to-day business and sustainability issues as you.
7. Entitles you to become part of Eden's expanding Green Foundation network, which you can mention in PR, marketing and sales.
8. Uses a creative approach to help you innovate and come up with new ideas for your business.
9. Counts towards an individual’s continuing professional development.
10. Gets you out of the office! We make the most of the Eden Project site as a living classroom for an engaging, hands-on learning experience. One participant told us: ‘It doesn’t feel like any business course I’ve ever been on.’

The impact of Green Foundation

We're constantly evaluating the course, to check that we really are making a difference to the companies that take part. Here are some headline facts from the first year*:

• 94% said they established connections with other businesses as a result of the programme
• 100% learnt something from Green Foundation
• 100% felt their business benefited from joining
• 100% of employers said they would participate again

Participants told us how much they'd gained in their own confidence to instigate change:

• Collectively, knowledge of what their business can do to become more sustainable rose by 53%, to 94%.
• Collectively, confidence in their ability to improve sustainable performance rose by 49%, to 99%.

*Based on surveys with 217 participants between October 2010 and August 2011.

Read our case studies to learn more about what has changed thanks to Green Foundation.