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PLATO: Sustain

PLATO: Sustain is a two-year business and personal development programme targeted at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based on the PLATOTM principle of peer-group learning. PLATO: Sustain is aimed at helping companies improve their business sustainability, encouraging them to feed this improvement through their supply chains and employees and adopt environmental friendly behaviour.

Increasingly, people are deciding whether or not they use a company based on how eco-friendly they are. It is becoming more important for businesses to make environmentalism a part of their brand. If you like the idea of being green but not sure how to go about it then the PLATO: Sustain programme is for you.

Plato GB Limited has secured funding from the European Regional Development Fund and the South East England Development Agency to deliver this programme to 160 SMEs throughout the South East region and it is free to join (worth £3,500.00 to each participant). The key criteria for any company wishing to join are that they employ at least 10 personnel, their turnover is a minimum of £1m and they have been trading for at least 3 years.

We are still recruiting for Kent, Gatwick, Reading, Milton Keynes and Oxford. This is a first come first served opportunity. To find out more about the PLATO: Sustain programme, please see the factsheets below or call us now on 08457 35 45 55 if you need any further information or wish to sign up for the programme.

PDF Download PLATO: Sustain Introduction leaflet for SMEs

PDF Download PLATO: Sustain Who can Join?

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arrow  Benefits of Joining
      PLATO: Sustain
  • Radically improving personal and business development skills;
  • Providing business coaching and problem solving;
  • Raising awareness of the cost and benefits of a sustainable business practice;
  • Facilitating learning through shared experiences and proven expertise of facilitators;
  • Increasing business turnover from new and improved products and processes that have whole life costs built in at every stage of the process, from design to end of life;
  • Achieving tangible cost savings by reducing energy, waste and water usage;
  • Implementing and supporting employee behaviour change to reduce the carbon footprint of employees as individuals;
  • Helping to find better ways of engaging with suppliers to develop 'greener' relationships that maximise opportunities to improve environmental impact;
  • Building client bases and supply chains.

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These are the Key requirements to join:

  • Owner, Chief Executive or Senior Director of an established enterprise
  • A small to medium enterprise
  • Employ between 10-249 employees;
  • Have been operating for at least three years;
  • Turnover in excess of £1m per annum;
  • Have the desire to introduce and implement sustainable design, innovation and business practices to their business
  • Have the aspiration and potential to grow;