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28/05/2026

22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day from NetShift!

Today is and this year's theme - Our Power, Our Planet - feels really close to home. Particularly after supporting to calculate their net positive footprint last month 👏 🎉 🌳

Because that's exactly what we believe. That change doesn't happen in boardrooms or by government decree alone. It happens in pub kitchens and village halls, in the decisions made by small business owners in Devon who are trying to do right by their community and their place.

Here's why it matters that SMEs are in this conversation:

📊 UK small and medium-sized businesses account for around 37% of the UK's total greenhouse gas emissions - yet most are still without the data, tools or support to know where to start.

📊 77% of UK SMEs have already taken at least one action towards net zero - there's far more momentum out there than the headlines suggest.

📊 Only 36% have publicly shared a net zero target. That gap between doing and telling is exactly where a Carbon Reduction Plan makes a difference.
Through the NetShift programme, we've been working with Devon SMEs - pubs, refilleries, farms, CSAs, high street shops, fish and chip shops, community organisations, independent schools - to help them understand their emissions, celebrate what they're already doing, and take practical steps forward.

No jargon. No judgement. Just honest numbers and a clear next step.

FUN FACT
Earth Day started in 1970 with 20 million people deciding that their voice and their choices mattered. 56 years on, we think the same is true for small businesses in the South West.

If you're a Devon SME and you'd like to understand your carbon footprint, get in touch. 🌱 We've got 10 places for SMEs in Teignbridge and West Devon, to get FREE decarbonisation plans, carbon policies and other consulting recommendations for being more earth friendly and reducing carbon.

If you would like to be able to post in 2027 that you've reduced your carbon by 10-50% then apply here now for our next round: https://lnkd.in/evBM8RS9

Devon CarbonReductionPlan

04/03/2026

We've been watching Channel 4's Dirty Business - a brilliant 3-part dramatisation of the dumping of sewage into Britain's rivers and seas by our privatised water companies. It's making a lot of people very angry. Particularly the retelling of the story of a little girl who died after accidentally stepping in poo at a Devon beach. Heartbreaking. And we haven't forgotten the bewilderment on the faces of Environment Agency staff, being told to stop site inspections - to have fewer cars on the road for Net Zero targets.

In our latest blog, The Edge of Transformation, on Linked In, we explore the idea of being socially safe. Not psychologically safe, but socially - where trust and truth are in a relationship with eachother with your employer. Have a read....

03/03/2026

⚠️**Last Chance**⚠️

Charities & not-for-profits - funders are already asking sustainability questions. Are you ready? Our fully-funded carbon policy programme could be the edge your next bid needs. All it requires is 2 hours of your time and our partners NetShift will do the rest.

Spaces are almost gone 🌱

Drop us a message or hit the link in Bio re. DECARBONISATION.

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03/03/2026

Calling all social leaders in the UK struggling with commercial growth.

Mentoring isn't a nice-to-have. It's the fastest route to capable, confident, human-centred leadership. Real challenges. Real growth. No classroom required. Our Emerging Leaders programme puts you in the room with emerging corporate leaders who sit outside your bubble and offering a unique perspective - and leaves you with a robust commercial strategy for this year that you feel really on top of 🌱 Plus you join Regenerous: and we're here for you too.

Just 2 days left to apply - if you were thinking about this before, now's the time. Last chance to get supported by us this year.

Link in Bio or copy & paste link below.
https://form.jotform.com/250414347619356

09/02/2026

Want your organisation or company to have a more purposeful culture?

Your opportunity to create meaningful change is just a click away.

Check out our recently published Purposeful Culture Guide, to get inspired about the numbers ways your workforce can make a significant impact in your community and beyond.

Link in Bio.

23/01/2026

"Social Starters is just the kickstarter you need to re-spark your business and career imagination."

Hearing this from Jenna, makes all those late nights writing worth it. I didn’t want to write another dry business manual; I wanted to create a call to action that felt tangible and realistic.

If you’ve been feeling like your career or business is 'stuck in a rut' and you’re looking for a way to align what you do with a positive impact on the world, I wrote this for you.

Grab a copy for yourself (or a friend) via link in Bio.

20/01/2026

We're hosting this new format in a few weeks, for Social Entrepreneurs Only.

If that's you, come along, bring your business challenges, and we'll give them a hack (and hopefully find you a solution!). Whatsapp if you have any questions. Grab your ticket now - its FREE.

Mini Problem-Solving “Hack” — FREE Power Hour (UK) Running a social enterprise can feel like carrying ten problems at once — funding pressure, capacity gaps,…

20/01/2026

Did you know small businesses in South Hams, Teignbridge, and West Devon can get free, tailored consultancy to create a Decarbonisation Plan? Helping them cut costs, reduce their carbon footprint, and join other Devon SMEs in the race to net zero🌍.

What’s included:
✅ Expert one-to-one support
✅ A carbon footprint audit
✅ Actionable steps to go greener
✅ Training + peer learning
Limited spaces available - Applications are now open.
🔗 Apply now via the BIPC website.

This is "Decarbonisation Programme - promo 45'" by Andrea Gamson on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

23/12/2025

📢 Vulnerable xmas share alert 📢
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This one is for all those who appreciate the true meaning of crimbo. Or for those feeling slightly cynical about it this year..... or feeling, hmmmm, something doesnt.... feel.... quite... right.

I didnt mention this in my video but 21 years ago I was in at Christmas, and a massive wave rolled under and past my wooden hut (which was on on stilts, thankfully, and rather sturdy ones at that). It was possibly a life saving decision to move to that hut the day before Xmas eve, as the bamboo beach hut I was in the days prior to the Tsunami, on Long Beach Koh Lanta, was completely washed away.

So I've always felt a bit weird at Christmas.
I suspect I would have anyway, since its a kind of capitalism-esque, consumerism-filled, lets all get in debt for it, celebration. Its kind of odd (to me, anyway). Even though im a sucker for a bauble. Hand made from leather offcuts did you say? How lovely.

But this past 20 odd years its also been filled with a kind of grief that has never left me.

Anyway I didnt intend to write this to go with my video... a video I recorded in the morning when i was still dark, and I am in my PJs...which is more of a softly spoken rant exploring the true meaning of Christmas.

I might do more of these.
Happy alternative Christmas!

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