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Skilled volunteers help small local businesses assess and cut their environmental footprint.
Adapt a lightweight SME framework covering energy, waste, procurement and transport.
Enlist volunteers with sustainability, engineering or finance backgrounds.
Test the audit with 2-3 supportive businesses and refine for time-poor owners.
Define scope, confidentiality terms and a professional report template.
Promote via the business association and chamber of commerce.
Match volunteer pairs to businesses and deliver audits with prioritised action plans.
Publish anonymised case studies of savings achieved to attract the next cohort.