Embedding Sustainability into your Supply Chain Policies
This in-person session is aimed at helping SMEs integrate sustainability into their procurement policies. Participants will look at ways to identify high emission purchases and carbon “hotspots” within their supply chain and to highlight priority areas for action. The session will include guidance on engaging with suppliers, asking key environmental questions, and incorporating simple sustainability clauses into contracts. They will leave with the confidence and tools to prioritise sustainability in their procurement and to ask the right questions to allow them to favour local, ethical, or low-carbon suppliers and products.
About Temple Group
Temple is one of the UK’s leading independent infrastructure, and property consultancies, specialising in environment, ecology, planning, and sustainability. Working with our clients, and with a team including several distinguished industry leaders, we work on many exciting, complex, challenging and globally relevant projects, programmes and schemes and are proud of our many and varied achievements.
We are proud to be a privately owned SME with a reputation for excellence working on some of the UK’s most complex infrastructure, planning and social programmes. We also part of the B Corp community and as such play a leading role in positively impacting and transforming the global economy toward a more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative system.
How to register
Our training sessions are open to all Southwark-based SMEs with fewer than 250 employees. Up to three employees per business are invited to register for each session. In order to join this training, please ensure your organisation has completed the Southwark Climate Collective Registration Form.
Accessibility
This session will be hosted in-person by Temple at the Tate Modern. The site has various access requirements such as sign language, audio description, hearing support and additional seating. Please do contact Sam (sb@betterbankside.co.uk) if you have any concerns.
About the Southwark Climate Collective
The Southwark Climate Collective is a partnership project led by Better Bankside, funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and supported by the Mayor of London. In 2024 the project supported 141 SMEs on their net zero journeys, achieving a range of outcomes, from energy savings and increased recycling rates to improved processes and management practices.
In the 2025-6 phase, the project is being expanded to support a wider cohort of SMEs across Southwark to prioritise climate action, through bespoke consulting support, a programme of expert-led training, Carbon Literacy Training and a suite of online resources.
Find out more at: southwarkclimatecollective.co.uk
