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Tackling Food Waste One Step at a Time

Over 30 of TEP’s staff are about to embark on a 16-week training programme that will culminate in each of them walking 40,000 steps in the same weekend and covering a combined distance of over 600 miles. That is the equivalent of walking between each of our offices (From Gateshead to Warrington, to Market Harborough, to London and then to Cornwall).

Even though this is excellent cardio, they aren’t just doing this for their health. In fact, they are doing it to raise vital funds for FareShare, our charity of the year. FareShare was established 25 years ago and is the UK’s longest running food redistribution charity. Their core belief is that no good food should go to waste, especially when people are going hungry. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of good food are wasted by the UK food industry every year, whilst millions of people are struggling to feed themselves. FareShare addresses this by redistributing food industry surplus that would otherwise go to waste.  Last year was FareShare’s biggest year to date, with a huge increase in the number of community groups benefiting from their service. The number of charities that they support increased to 10,962 and the number of people accessing FareShare food each week rose to 933,178. The food they redistributed contributed towards 57.3 million meals and saved the charity sector £14.1 million.

To support the fantastic work that FareShare does and to help them reach as many people as possible, our staff have set themselves a challenge that will test their limits. On the 19th and 20th February, our willing volunteers will be taking part in a sponsored walk. We have also set ourselves a fundraising target of raising £2,500, which TEP will very kindly match if we manage to reach. We will be sharing all the highs and lows of our training, so please follow our progress over the next 16 weeks and if you are able, please sponsor our staff. It will definitely give them that extra little boost of encouragement, especially whilst the weather is so wet and windy!

For every pound that is donated, four people will get a meal. So, if you would like to support our staff in their challenge and help them reach their goal, you can donate by visiting our JustGiving page here.



Thank you to all our staff taking part and good luck!

TEP’s Neutral Footprints

This year, TEP’s staff have chosen to offset their carbon footprint by supporting a project that safeguards endangered species such as the Capuchin Monkey, Black Bearded Saki, The Little Spotted Cat and Giant Otter.

Since its foundation, TEP has always been mindful of its responsibility to manage the company’s impact on the environment. As a result, in 2010 TEP became the only environmental consultancy to offer full scope carbon neutrality under British Standard PAS 2060.

Every year since, TEP’s Green Team reviews our carbon footprint to monitor and help get us closer to carbon net zero. This year’s report has documented an 18% increase in TEP’s carbon emissions. This can be largely attributed to the growth in our employee numbers, resulting in a 26% increase in business travel and 28% increase in commuting mileage. These two categories alone make up the majority of TEP’s CO2 emissions, with 229 tCO2e out of our 374 ton total in 2017/18.

To combat this, our Green team does a fantastic job implementing changes to help reduce our footprint. Changes such as: purchasing carbon neutral stationary, switching to LED lighting units, introducing hybrid powered pool cars and offering low carbon loans to our staff. However, to honour our pledge to carbon neutrality, every year TEP’s emissions need to be offset through Carbon Credit schemes from organisations such as EcoAct; who help companies deliver sustainable solutions.

This year our staff have chosen to support the Floresta de Portel project in Brazil. The project aims to protect and preserve the Amazonian ecosystems through the education and establishment of sustainable business practices for local inhabitants.

The project places a strong emphasis on working with the local communities to create prosperous and sustainable livelihoods, by safeguarding existing endangered species such as the Capuchin Monkey and allowing natural environmental recovery. The project also provides land tenure, allowing locals to claim rights to the land and prevent logging and large scale farming. It creates jobs to manage and monitor the health of the surrounding forest, as well as energy-efficient cook stoves to reduce reliance on felling trees. This is a fantastic project that we are proud to be supporting, it also fulfils three of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals:

08 – Decent Work and Economic Growth

13 – Climate Action and

15 – Life on Land

Very few significant journeys are ever short or direct but TEP is committed to becoming carbon net zero and helping other companies to do so along the way.

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