Voluntary and Community Sector Environmental Performance and Contracting

A Half-day Workshop Event for Derbyshire Community and Voluntary Sector Organisations

Supported by Derbyshire CAN

Date Friday 31 March
Location: The Bridge Centre, Langley Mill

Objectives:
a) Throughout Derbyshire, voluntary and community organisations are facing the challenges of bidding for commissioned services, and are entering (sometimes for the first time) formal procurement rounds.
This half day event has been organised to give organisations who have begun to bid for contracted work, and those who are planning to engage in the future, a practical insight into the environmental policies, procedures and management practices demanded in some tendering processes.

b) The impact of the Climate Change Bill and other UK and EU legislation will place greater emphasis on ‘environmental footprint’ in the future, and new environmental quality markers will become embedded in private and public sector tendered contracts.
This event is designed to help officers, managers and trustees of Derbyshire third sector organisations obtain a basic understanding of how these ‘standards’ will appear, and to look at how small organisations can comply with the basic necessities of environmental management, such as the preparation of an ‘environmental policy’ .

Programme: (delivered by Tina Boddington, and Julien Bastid,)

The event will be free to Derbyshire Based Community and Voluntary organisations, but a charge of £55 will be made to organisations outside the county.