Event Review: 21st Anniversary dinner 9th January 2020
Over sixty invited guests joined UKBCSD for its 21st Anniversary dinner, held at the Royal Horseguards Hotel, London. Chief Executive Charles Roach chaired the evening, thanking sponsors, Sir Robert McAlpine and Prologis UK, before introducing the speakers, Dr Geoff Kendall of Future Fit Foundations and Professor Rob Holdway, of Giraffe Innovations who invited the business representatives present, to consider how they are uniquely qualified to address the sustainable development challenges that lie ahead.
Stressing that there is now clear evidence of the need to change how we exploit the planet’s resources, Dr Geoff Kendall focused on the climate emergency and what it means for future business. We must acknowledge that the relationship between business and the environment is now in delicate balance. He outlined the forces that impact and have the potential to destroy business, in particular automation vs jobs and disruptive technologies, hence our challenge is to ensure business resilience.
Considering the 17 UN SDGs, Geoff said, “These are a useful tool and give us a shared vocabulary to achieve sustainability but how do we as individual businesses know what difference our contributions make to them? We must ask ourselves what societal needs we are addressing and how can we make them better? As a business, what unique knowledge and competencies do we possess and how can we leverage them?”
Professor Rob Holdway talked about the need for an innovation culture, saying, “Culturally we need to start thinking about the lexicon we use, not everyone sees the world or the environmental problem in the same way.”
He noted the lack of intellectual leadership at political level, believing that the public sector must engage, not dictate, the sustainability agenda, if collaborative innovation culture is to become a reality. In his view, Innovation = Solutions = Empowerment = Investment; while Legislation = Response = Misunderstanding = Uncertainty. Climate challenge, Climate crisis or Climate emergency? These often interchangeable terms, reflect the often confusing agendas driving our national policy. We need to reflect on the reality that the cultural change needed takes commitment and time
“At this seriously challenging time in our history, an innovation culture promotes the importance of pro-environmental behaviours but sustaining an increasingly urbanised world puts unimaginable pressure on the environment”
As an example, Rob explained that London, the smallest of the world’s ‘megacities’, has an ecological footprint twice the size of the UK (an ecological footprint representing the amount of productive land or sea needed to produce the resources consumed by Londoners and absorb the waste generated). Putting this into even sharper focus, in the UK we individually consume 12 tons of carbon per year, so relating our micro actions to any scale relevant to what is needed to address sustainable environments, is overwhelming if approached solely by short term actions by individuals*
Jason Longhurst, Chairman of UKBCSD, concluded; “This event hosts cross-industry representation with over 200 years of industry experience, investors, developers, occupiers, agents, planners, policy-makers and critically – the one missing element from the current climate debate in meeting 2020’s challenges – we have industry leaders too.
“I need you to join me in aligning our efforts to commit to addressing the gap in leadership on meeting these challenges. We already have the innovators, the investors and the organisational knowledge to lead a tangible response but we need a shared plan with leadership to commit to how we measure success. I have heard and read so much on what we are not doing, so let’s commit to aligning our CSR, ESG and SDG approaches. Let’s unlock our innovation, our potential, our skills and the leadership our sector holds in partnership.
“As the country looks forward to hosting the UN Climate Summit, this is the year we must make the difference. We must show the public sector we are ready to engage with them in delivering the solutions that address, hand-in-hand, both our desire to mitigate the climate emergency and give assurance to all, that sustainable growth is achievable for the UK.”
*What can I do as an individual to reduce my carbon footprint? A guide to promoting Pro-Environmental behaviours
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Climate emergency and what it means for business
Celebrating our 21st Anniversary, UKBCSD played host to over 60 guests at its annual dinner on 9th January.
Held at the Royal Horseguards Hotel, London, a venue befitting of a significant anniversary for UKBCSD the event sponsored by Sir Robert McAlpine and Prologis UK, whose support and presence was a valuable addition to the evening’s proceedings.
Attracting leadership representatives from the widest range of businesses and public sectors yet assembled, guests were engaged in debate led by two speakers of national reknown in Dr Geoff Kendall, of Future Fit Business and Professor Rob Holdway of Giraffe Innovations, to respond to the challenge and opportunity emerging from the theme of the evening.
Overall, guests were united in their position: "2020 - business must lead the debate for change"
2020 the year the UK hosts the COP26 International Climate Summit, presents the opportunity for business, across all sectors, to show the power of its collaborative efforts in promoting the strategies needed to communicate our impact on climate change and enhance the UK’s productive capability, to the highest levels of Government.
We’re grateful to have received such generous support from our sponsors, speakers and guests in making this a very engaging and memorable evening. The positive closing remarks regarding future collaborations with us, was most welcome.
We look forward to 2020, our 21st year, in taking a proactive position on the economic concerns shared by our members and partners.
Strategy Meeting 31st July 2019
This event was kindly hosted by LDA-Design. Peterborough. UK
In June, the outgoing Prime Minister set out her Government’s challenge for the UK to lead the World as a net zero carbon economy. With this critical pledge, the opportunity for UKBCSD’s mission for a Sustainable Britain by 2050 takes a step closer to reality.
The announcement the UK was to be host for the Global Climate Summit in 2020, effectively raises the profile for UK businesses whilst putting in the spotlight, those who are leading the transformation towards a low carbon economy. This is a chance for UKBCSD members to be seen as part of the vanguard of transforming businesses whilst pledging their support to Government in meeting its stated Grand Challenges for productivity, innovation, skills and investment.
Convening the Strategy Day offered UKBCSD members the opportunity to voice their progress and achievements against these Grand Challenges and to contribute to developing a set of clear Priorities for them to engage others, and commit their own time & resources to reflecting:
• The priorities UKBCSD needs to focus to shape the policy for your sector.
• Showcasing the Ideas, Solutions, Opportunities and Prospects for delivering clean growth quickly.
• Identifying and Securing the key Influencers needed to engage decision-makers, across industry and within Government, to highlight the vital role of business as committed leaders of change.
For the organisation to maintain contemporary relevance and it would like to see:
1. Members demonstrating tangible Outcomes and contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals
2. Develop a Value proposition leading from actions on the above which delivers for business and communities
3. Work with the Board and Advisors to access funding to enable us Translate (need & benefit) and Deliver (procurement demand for innovative solutions and products) in response to a highly aspirational policy
In developing Members' Priorities contributing towards a Sustainable Britain they addressed the need for the organisation to better align its response to critical issues relevant to current and foreseeable business climate.
These are the High level Priorities towards which members will work with the Board to develop Action Plans and wider business engagement activity over future months from which we can demonstrate tangible contributions of our work towards the UK’s Grand Challenges during the year of the Global Climate Summit.
“The UK government is not doing enough to encourage companies to be more sustainable, the business lobby group CBI has told the Victoria Derbyshire programme. What can be learned from the world's most sustainable industrial building in the Netherlands?”
Source: Michael Cowan 12/8/19
Last June, the outgoing Prime Minister set out challenges for the UK to lead the World as a net zero carbon economy. With this critical pledge, the opportunity for a Sustainable Britain by 2050 took a step closer to reality. Next year’s COP26 Climate Summit, to be hosted for the first time in UK, will put the World’s spotlight on UK Innovation However, it is the regulatory environment that stands in the way of presenting this as a mainstream rather than niche activity. Investment is not lacking from the private sector but, the dysfunctional relationship between business, Utility operators and Government intervention, adds up to a less than benign environment to host real competition for the world’s most sustainable buildings.
UKBCSD - reflecting the UK position
Our UK based, international members’ experience of buildings in the Netherlands and the UK affords us a practical insight into the issues raised in Michael Cowan’s item for the Victoria Derbyshire Show, presented on 12th August. The commercial investors, developers, property managers and occupiers of logistics and offices have buildings in the UK very similar to this one. They incorporate most of the same sustainable design and operating credentials. However, there are significant points of difference which relate to the respective role and support offered by Government and the energy industry in making this a mainstream activity in the UK.
The first issue to consider - the Netherlands is supporting large scale photo-voltaic (PV) installations on roofs of industrial buildings. They can make this work for a number of reasons:
• They are able to access Feed in Tariffs (FiT), which are Government incentives for renewable energy generation
• They can export power to the grid at retail prices
• There is no additional cost for self-consumption. All PV energy generated from a site is sent to the grid. Occupiers purchase energy they require for use in the building, without additional costs at the meter.
By contrast, UK PV providers receive no FiT incentives. Energy export to the grid is valued at around 3p/kWH which is significantly less than the retail rate charged by DSOs of 13p/KWH. These punitive self-consumption rates, when taken together with the challenge of matching PV generation (which happens in the day) with warehouse energy demand (which peaks in the night) undermines the business case for PV in the UK.
UK developers and occupiers regard this as frustrating. It is an avoidable artificial difference rather than a physical one.
The second issue is the respective approaches to disincentivising use of fossil fuels in our buildings. The UK needs to step up.
In the Netherlands they are moving to all electric heating, as gas can only ever be derived from fossil fuels. In the UK however, an all electric building would appear less sustainable in any energy calculation because the carbon factor for electricity (kgCo2/KWH) is far higher than gas. This will be corrected at some point to reflect growing proportion of renewables in the UK grid, but we still lag far behind the Netherlands in this area.
The third issue, raised by the CBI as a disincentive to developers however, is not one we share. We do not believe there is clear evidence in the industrial sector to support the CBI claim that "If a company lays out the capital for green energy products like solar wind, the value of the property will increase…………” Although there have been numerous reports on this matter over the years (Savills et al), property valuation is still based on the very practical considerations of location, product specification being “institutional grade”, covenant strength and unexpired lease length. Green energy products such as solar and wind are seen as “nice to have’s” which do not attract a valuation premium and almost certainly, as our members can demonstrate, create no uplift in rent.
Suggesting that the Rhenus logistics facility is 'the most sustainable building in the world' is potentially overstated. Given the supportive policy environment in the Netherlands that is nurturing and mainstreaming renewable energy generation and consumption, it is clearly transforming the business case for occupying sustainable buildings. Additionally, with the interrelationship between energy and building code legislation being very closely aligned to serve the same ends, it is giving greater incentive and support to push developers in the Netherlands to do more than they are able to here in the UK.
Our members’ principal focus is on Energy generation for self-consumption – nirvana is communities producing their own energy. However, key to addressing this is adoption and pushing our Government to legislate for power companies to take renewable energy to the grid offers significant progress (and commitment) in providing the solutions the UK needs. The narrow policy focus on penalising consumption, needs to be counterbalanced by incentivising more on site Production.
Becoming a World Leader as envisioned by Mrs May in her final policy announcement last June, must engage our Government as lead director in creating the sort of benign environment afforded to investors in the Netherlands. State intervention in the market is overdue but our members will offer little resistance if all the energy companies are part of the solution in managing significant shifts in reducing carbon consumption. We agree, that won’t be easy, as it will necessitate more contractual and regulatory changes. However, UKBCSD is happy and willing to work with Government and the DSOs and energy utility companies to make progress on this and make certain, our national commitment to fully decarbonise the economy.
At this year’s UKBCSD strategy meeting, members expressed their wish to engage with young people, to hear their views, thoughts and ideas on all-things-sustainability. The increasing Youth voice represents a stakeholder challenge which no forward thinking business can ignore. However, the potential influence that young people can have upon decision-making is not acknowledged early enough. More problematically, businesses have little experience maintaining long term contact with young people. The outcome being, they fail to take account of the ethics and values of tomorrow’s consumer. Today and in the future, this approach must change. By happy coincidence, Chief Executive Charles Roach had previously attended a Youth and Business Workshop and met 16-year old Joshua Muthu, there to represent Action for Conservation. Joshua’s message was loud and clear; “Engage with us. Invite us into your boardrooms. Incorporate the essence of our ideas into your business decisions.”
Joshua says it was a chance glance at an article from the Biology department in his school newsletter, featuring the Action for Conservation (AFC) summer camp, that first piqued his curiosity in climate change. One successful joint application later – they wrote about the devastating impact of microfibres - and he and his brother found themselves at the 2018 camp, a game changer for Joshua. “The AFC team were young, vibrant and enthusiastic. They were there to engage young people in the issues and challenges our world faces, it really opened my eyes. We regained our connection to nature but it was pragmatic and practical too, teaching us how to get our message across, how to communicate with a far wider audience.”
“Young people don’t have the experience of addressing meetings, developing strategies but we have ideas and convictions. For young people, the zeitgeist is climate change and corporate social responsibility… but are corporations facing those responsibilities? I would like to see business establishing youth boards, or having youth representation in the Board Room. This isn’t about being radical for the sake of it but a lot of young people want to make a difference and are very, very conscious of the climate emergency. We are inventive, inquisitive people and we believe we have a lot to offer. After all, it is our future we are invested in. We might not have the power but we are the ones who are catalysing the change, which is currently being reflected in both on a political and at a grassroots level.”
Nobody could fail to recognise Greta Thunberg or be aware of the influence she has had on the climate change conversation. Similarly, Extinction Rebellion has been instrumental in raising awareness although, on this point, Joshua believes they have not yet been clear enough in communicating their green manifesto.
“We have to take politics into account but my concern is that XR is carrying political baggage. They must stay green, keep it simple and make it very clear that they are not involved with leftist ideology, which will only put off many of the people they need to attract to their cause, people who are more conservative in their thinking. The political and economic angle must be about reducing our impact on the climate but we have to work with the market system, not against it.
“In my view, scientific evidence and innovation will be the drivers that get us through the climate emergency but the Corporates must be on side. Financial incentives should be provided for those who are working sustainably, and rewards for reducing their carbon footprint. Too many people have stood on the side-lines and watched, but young people are catalysts for change. It makes good business sense to start a dialogue with us, take our opinions into account and, in doing so, present a message to customers (and future customers) and shareholders that you are socially aware and conscious of the world around you. None of us own this world, we guard and protect it for the next generation.”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Two years on from the World Business Council’s Zero Emissions City Framework for Birmingham, the City is stepping up its commitment towards delivering a greener, healthier and happier future for its citizens and demonstrating what can be achieved in reducing the carbon impact of growth.
Birmingham is arguably a victim of its own success. Mercer rate the city in the top 50 globally for quality of life. Affordability is strong in the Midlands, as is access to jobs and good wages, all of which attracted 7,000 people to relocate to Birmingham from the South East last year and upwards of 10,000 to date this year. This has created quite a challenge for the city’s planners who need to plan homes, jobs and infrastructure for 150,000 more people by 2031.
With growth comes great opportunity but also huge pressure on infrastructure, resources and the environment. As a city committed to reducing its impact on the global climate, its ambitious targets for carbon reduction provides acknowledgement that its future success will depend on it.
Richard Cowell is Assistant Director of Development at Birmingham City Council leading multidisciplinary teams covering Development Planning, Planning Management, City Design, Enterprise Zone and Curzon Delivery, and Business Development & Innovation. He has been at the City Council since 2008 and has led a wide range of transformational projects including writing the Big City Plan, establishing the City Centre Enterprise Zone and securing its extension, creating a series of masterplans to unlock significant growth and bringing forward major regeneration initiatives including Birmingham Smithfield and the Curzon HS2 Growth Strategy.
On the subject of Birmingham’s growth strategy Richard says,
“Urbanisation and continued population growth is placing greater pressure on land and infrastructure across cities. Birmingham has a clear strategy in place to deliver 51,100 homes, employment space for 100,000 new jobs and £4bn of infrastructure. While we are unable to accommodate all the homes and employment space to meet the needs we are seeking to make the most efficient use of land and increase average densities.
Achieving our ambitions for growth will require a clear focus on creating high quality places and ensuring we embed environmental sustainability and meet the targets on carbon reduction. This will require a holistic approach. This starts with creating higher density mixed developments that are well connected and supported by the vital social, physical and green infrastructure.
Improving connectivity and prioritising those modes of transport that can move more people at higher density will be essential. This means focusing on public transport, walking and cycling. The City has major plans, working with TfWM, to expand the Midland Metro Tram network and introduce SPRINT bus routes. Well over a Billion pounds will be spent on the new tram network and we have already created a pedestrian-friendly city centre, with public realm that connects the key development areas.
We assess all new planning proposals on their sustainability credentials, and our development plan includes policies on green infrastructure and low carbon energy use. We are promoting a fabric first approach to ensure buildings are the most efficient they can be. The potential to adapt and retrofit is also important. We must also ensure our spaces have the flexibility to accommodate new technology, which could be urban agriculture, it could be driverless vehicles. The key is ensuring we create coherent urban environments that are easy to navigate.
Equally critical is energy. There needs to be a focus on creating new, de-centralised energy. In Birmingham we have a significant bio-mass plant at Tyseley and are promoting environmental technologies as part of an Economic Zone. The City Council is also set to publish an Energy Prospectus establishing our strategy for delivering cleaner and greener energy into the future.
An important part of our Development Plan is also the clarity on where we will focus growth. The most significant location is the city centre, where we are planning 20,000 homes and over one million sq. m of commercial, leisure and cultural space.
One of the City’s most significant development schemes in the city centre is a perfect example of how we are bringing a holistic approach to creating a new urban quarter. Birmingham Smithfield, which formed part of the ZEC initiative, will be a 17ha redevelopment in the heart of the city centre delivering a transformational mixed use scheme with leisure, culture, retail markets, innovative workspace and a 2000 home new residential community. Public realm and new public spaces will create a high quality environment which embeds green infrastructure across the site. Significant investment in public transport and walking and cycling routes will provide sustainable modes of travel and social infrastructure will underpin a successful community. As a joint venture between Birmingham City Council and Lendlease the site of the old wholesale markets will become an international exemplar of sustainable placemaking.
Our development plan also sets out ambitious proposals for the wider city and we are bringing forward urban extensions, major new employment sites and the regeneration of suburban areas such as Selly Oak, Edgbaston, Icknield, East Birmingham, Longbridge - well known for its former motor industry; and Perry Barr where much of the Commonwealth Games 2022 activity will be based. So, taking that example, we planned the Athletes Village as a new community from the start so that it will deliver 1,400 homes alongside public realm and community facilities. This will provide the catalyst for a further 3000 new homes in the area, in addition to employment uses and investment in sports, recreation and community facilities. In the north of the City we are extending the urban area, taking 274 hectares to create a new 6,000 home community and 70 hectares for new employment land.
If we are to deliver our growth plans we need to work collaboratively across the public and private sector to ensure that the developments and the infrastructure will meet the needs of current and future generations. So ultimately we are focused on creating more resilient places for people to live, work and spend their leisure time.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The UK is now committed to a net zero carbon future. Unlocking investment is crucial to enabling this and quite rightly, the finance sector is seen to be at the heart of driving change by influencing the businesses that depend on it. The plans outlined yesterday in the Green Finance Strategy should accelerate future innovation however, we question whether the ambition matches the challenges we face on the journey to becoming net zero.
The new £5m Green Home Finance Fund is a positive move for incentivising domestic energy efficiency however, Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Group, claims that to make our homes energy efficient by 2035 an additional requirement of £1bn investment is required annually. Yesterday’s announcements represent less than one per cent of that. Improving the energy efficiency of homes provides a compelling case for unburdening demands on our energy infrastructure; enhancing resilience at lower cost and achieving net zero emissions more quickly. Similarly, the Strategy does not set out the scale of the investment that the UK needs for resilient decarbonisation. We would like to see more binding regulations to disincentivise “green washing” practice. The fear of failure, which is stifling innovation and providing a drag on the pace of change needed, must be resolved by pump priming the market to increase investment in zero carbon design & construction, buildings, industry and transport.
However, the UK is already making significant progress towards a low carbon economy. Since 1990, the UK economy grew by 70 percent, while simultaneously cutting its carbon emissions faster than any other G7 nation. The launch of the “Green Finance Strategy” aimed at making efforts to fight climate change a key priority for the City of London, indicates the enormous potential of this sector. Taken together with last week’s announcement by the shadow chancellor on the same theme with a push for a greater leadership role for the Bank of England, serves to highlight that we cannot be complacent. Our low carbon infrastructure needs continued investment up to £693 billion by 2031 if we have any chance of meeting our net zero carbon target. This national infrastructure deficit offers significant opportunities for businesses and investors should a continuity on policy commitment, together with tangible delivery, be assured well into the next decade.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]UK accused of trying to ‘fiddle’ climate change targets
It is disappointing that the Chancellor has chosen to ignore a warning from the government’s climate advisory group to use past overperformance in emissions reductions to relax the agreed limits up to 2027. This balance sheet approach to our climate change targets allows a potential breach of pollution limits in the future. This announcement featured in last Monday’s Financial Times, comes hot on the heels of Malaysia’s decision to repatriate exported plastic waste, the trade of which continues to contribute to our healthy greenhouse gas emissions balance sheet.
The Chancellor’s approach to carbonomics gives licence for an increase in emissions during the current Carbon Budget period. The reason; to allow economic growth not to stall in future. But in meeting our carbon budget for 2023-27, we are already off-target. This offers little reassurance in meeting our pledge to adopt the Climate Change Commitee’s recommendation for a 2050 net zero carbon target the most ambitious long-term carbon targets in the world.
We cannot address the climate change challenge without investment in new technologies and solutions. Submission to demands for unimpeded economic growth, fuelled by more flexible emission targets, does not make our future any more prosperous. Reversing the damage in future years will only become more expensive and less competitive for the businesses the UK retains throughout an frustratingly lengthy and uncertain transition.
So far, 130 leading businesses are urging UK Government to legislate for 2050 net zero economy. The solutions businesses are presenting are bold and challenging and they must be. Delivering such solutions at the pace and scale required will consume resources and investment at an unprecedented level. All stakeholders in UKplc, urgently need certainty in return for their commitment and sacrifice to make the net zero target, by 2050, a positive reality. The Chancellor’s carbonomics only serves to delay the inevitable when mitigation is needed, now.
Getting this right requires an economy supporting climate-resilient activity. This must be underpinned by policy and procurement incentives needed to become a truly world leading economy in zero carbon. Limiting the risk, impact and scale of global warming outlined in last year’s IPCC report, whilst a challenge for securing society’s future welfare, is worth pursuing by us all.
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UKBCSD welcomes the debate around the innovative solutions outlined in this paper and the environmental and economic savings that intelligently connected buildings can deliver for the future of a major sector of our economy.
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Develop the UN Sustainable Development Goals for schools
Your opportunity to lead the UK Sustainability Awareness Campaign in your community
Request to UKBCSD members to collaborate in developing resources for the 21st century workforce
Makematic, a leading UK-based educational video creator are seeking business partners to support the national rollout of their UN Sustainable Development Goal platform, aimed at raising awareness and spurring action among young people and communities on topics such as climate change, plastics and carbon reduction.
I’m sure you’ll have seen the student walk outs around Climate Action across the country over the last few weeks. To help cities and regions across the UK build young people’s growing interest in sustainability and climate action, they have developed a series of 80 bite-sized films and resources for students on the topic of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You can see samples of the resources here: https://vimeopro.com/Makematic/un-sustainable-development-goals-schools-outreach-initiative
Why business should consider doing this
UKBCSD sees clear potential for a successful rollout of this with business sponsors driving the campaign and securing content which is representative of their sustainability actions and priorities. Applying the mantra of creating the 21st century workforce should ring true for many businesses who see skills they need, not being addressed in the formal curriculum. This is an opportunity to impact positively upon that, using ready made resources reinforced through peer-to-peer learning aimed at primary school pupils.
Your support is requested to support this important and increasingly topical initiative. Most importantly, the support requested will enable the distribution of the resource to schools in your region, as well as the development of additional local content to showcase your company’s efforts and those of the young people in your area, to others across the country.
This marquee project has the potential to reach over 4 million young people and their families over the coming year and should prove an ideal opportunity for the businesses stepping up, collaborating and contributing to the development of additional content to showcase their profession’s efforts to inspire the engineers, architects, planners etc of the future. Alongside this, to increase the impact of their sustainability credentials and raise their national CSR profile to our future workforce; the post millennials generation.
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Makematic want to showcase the sustainability efforts of businesses by creating 5 custom-made bite-sized films.
These films will be distributed to schools as part of a national rollout of the resource and will reach 4.2 million students, promoting local sustainability actions, raising awareness of businesses taking important steps to sustainable futures and connecting businesses with local schools and communities.
Each participant business receives
In turn, through your participation, UK Schools receive:
Register your Interest
Cost to participate is £5,000+VAT and the deadline to register participation is June 15th This allows production of the films to take place over the summer months, for distribution to schools in September 2019.
Contact Nick Fitzsimons on Nick@Makematic.com to register your interest and for more details.
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