he Carbon Trust Green Business Fund is a brand new energy efficiency support service for small and medium-sized companies in England, Wales and Scotland. It provides direct funded support through energy assessments, training workshops, equipment procurement support and a capital contribution towards your energy saving equipment purchase.

The two-hour workshops will help small companies across England learn how to identify and implement opportunities to reduce energy costs within their business and make the most of the Fund.

› Understanding and reducing energy bills through behavioural and low cost measures

• Introduction to energy management
• How to understand your energy usage bills
• How to implement approaches to energy management and behaviour change to achieve real saving

› Focus on major areas of energy consumption in SMEs (heating, lighting, equipment, insulation)

• Technical overview of the key areas of consumption
• Outline of key energy reduction retrofit technologies

› Access to funding and free one-to-one site audits

• A brief overview of further support and advice available, including a capital contribution towards the cost of projects that comply with the requirements of the fund