The Rushlight Summer Showcase takes place on Thursday 20 June 2019 at the Victory Services Club, 63-79 Seymour Street, London, W2 2HF.  It is THE marketplace that brings together cleantech developers and sustainable solution providers, with investors & financiers and businesses looking to source suppliers and partners for an improved level of sustainability in their supply chain and operations. Kindly lead sponsored by Innovate UK and supported by BEIS, with sponsorship also from Venner Shipley and Flanders Investment & Trade, it follows on from the highly successful Rushlight Show which has just had its 10th year and attracted over 500 cleantech CEOs and entrepreneurs, investors and financiers, advisers, corporate customers and others involved in the sector. TO REGISTER AND PAY ONLINE CLICK HERE ; TO REGISTER AND REQUEST AN INVOICE PLEASE EMAIL SALES@EVENTUREMEDIA.CO.UK ; and for more details of the event please go to https://www.rushlightevents.com/rushlight-summer-showcase/. Cleantech companies can apply for one of the ...

What is a CIC? Just to be clear, a C.I.C. is a Community Interest Company which is one of several legal entities for social enterprises. A CIC operates as a business but has an underlying remit to operate for a social purpose. Additionally, CICs have an asset lock which means all assets must be used for the community purpose. If those assets are sold, and/or if the business is wound up, those assets must be transferred to a similarly asset-locked body. Due to the very nature of our work, ORB has also been a social enterprise in principle since it was incorporated almost exactly 10 years ago. However, technically it has always been a ‘normal’ limited company. This, at the time, was a conscious decision: our membership is predominantly for businesses and we wanted members and potential members to know that we, too, ...

We are delighted that we have been able to dramatically reduce ORB membership rates – not as a short-term special offer but permanently. And, of course, not just to new members but to existing members too. The starting point for ORB membership is now only £35 per annum, down from £120 per annum plus VAT. * The New Business rates are for businesses that have been established for less than 18 months. The special rate will apply for the first year, thereafter membership will automatically revert to the relevant rate. At this point, it is important to explain WHY we have made this decision, and HOW we are able to do so. Ensuring ORB membership is affordable Ensuring membership is affordable for all businesses, especially sole traders and start-ups, is the underlying reason for the change. Whilst our rates were never expensive, we know only ...

Vicky Kelly of Butterfly Effect Coaching is an experienced and well-respected coach and trainer. But in 2016/17 she went through quite a transition. On a personal level, Vicky held very strong values and ethics and felt that, although she was undoubtedly delivering a first-class business consultancy, she wanted to bring this focus into the training and coaching she was delivering.  Vicky changed her business model and, as part of that process, also registered as an #ORBmember.  Vicky covers a broad range of topics in her coaching and training, one of which is Employee Well-being. But as you will see from her article below, she has a very different approach to this important topic. Nobody would argue that employee wellbeing isn’t an important topic.  However, what you may argue on is the best approach to looking after your employees, and what is required for ...

This may be a very old phrase and, indeed, one that many people may not be familiar with, but it is certainly apt in relation to the request I am about to make. It means: To defiantly display one’s opinions and beliefs and show your intention to hold on to those beliefs until the end. The origin of the phrase is in 17th-century nautical battles: colours (flags) were struck (lowered) as a mark of submission. It was also the custom in naval warfare to direct one's cannon fire at the opponent's ship's mast, thus disabling it. If all of a ship's masts were broken the captain usually had no alternative but to surrender. If the captain decided to fight on this was marked by hoisting the colours on the remnants of the ship's rigging, that is, by 'nailing his colours to ...