Start sustainability conversations with engaging interactive workshops and toolkits that meet your audience where they are.
Fun activities reduce the friction people experience when asked to discuss thorny topics, such as sustainability.
Your audience learn better by doing and discussing than by watching long slideshows filled with overwhelming jargon.
Our toolkits can be used as short as 10 minute ice-breakers or full 2+ hour workshop sessions.
Physical tools create more memorable "aha!" moments that digital dashboards and PDFs can't replicate.
In collaboration with Stirling Council and the University of Stirling, we transformed complex carbon reduction into a rapid, 60-minute Small99 Action Box designed for the fast-paced cafe sector. Funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, this practical toolkit delivers high-impact carbon reduction wins, creating a scalable model for local business engagement that works right at the cafe counter.
Small businesses are agile enough to lead, but too time-poor for 50-page manuals. When SIEC wanted to engage Forth Valley cafes, they needed to bridge a gap: delivering meaningful carbon reduction that fits into a 60-minute window and works within the physical constraints of a busy shop floor.
We developed a custom branded “Reduced” Small99 Action Box. This toolkit distils carbon reduction and circular economy principles into a fast, gamified format. It’s designed for scale and easily facilitated by students or advisors to reach businesses right at the espresso machine.
The workshops have become a lead generator for one-to-one business support. According to the University of Stirling, the toolkit’s card-based format has successfully sparked the specific, high-engagement conversations needed to move local owners from interest to action.
In partnership with SCVO and Verture, we are evolving the Growing Climate Confidence (GCC) resources into an interactive activity for a wide range non-profits. By integrating carbon reduction (mitigation) and climate resilience (adaptation) into a single “flight simulator” experience, we enable organisations to navigate complex risks and trade-offs in a safe and engaging environment.
Scotland’s Third Sector faces a fragmented landscape of climate support, often split between carbon reduction and resilience. With shifting funding streams and external pressures, SCVO needed a robust yet accessible way to help non-profits move past the jargon and take entry-level action that drives real change.
We are co-creating a “flight simulator” for organisational resilience. By gamifying real-world trade-offs through fictional scenarios, we’ve removed the high-stakes pressure, allowing teams to play out the consequences of their decisions. Working closely with SCVO and Verture, we are iterating the resource through real-time feedback to ensure it translates into practical, internal knowledge.
Early testing focuses on opening the floor for authentic conversations that traditional tools stifle. By simulating the impacts of today’s choices, the resource is building the foundational confidence non-profits need to adapt to a changing climate while staying focused on their core missions and reducing their carbon emissions.
To move beyond surface-level surveys, we partnered with a leading financial institution (NDA) to deliver a high-impact workshop series across several UK cities. The goal is to ensure that businesses understand their emissions, but also leave with a credible timeline, a plan for finance, and a support network to keep them accountable. This collaboration is uncovering SME’s deep-rooted barriers to action while providing the space needed for deeper insights.
Large institutions often struggle to move past generic data when engaging small businesses. Our partner needed deeper insights into the specific barriers their clients face, as previous survey attempts had yielded mixed results. They approached Small99 because they needed a partner who understood the unique challenges and language that SMEs respond to.
We adapted our Small99 Action Box approach with a shorter workshop format and new conversational prompt cards designed to surface real-world frustrations. This “active research” model allowed us to dig into the frictions of small business sustainability in a way that traditional surveys cannot. By facilitating honest dialogue, we uncovered new insights while helping businesses transition from basic awareness to being ready to invest in their carbon reduction.
While the project is ongoing, the workshops have already provided a much deeper understanding of the SME landscape for our partner. By using tools that prioritize peer-to-peer conversation over dry data collection, we’ve successfully gathered feedback needed to shape future support while empowering business owners to build their own carbon-reduction roadmaps.
Partnering with a major aerospace leader, we delivered interactive workshops designed to break through supply chain inertia. We created a collaborative space for suppliers to identify shared barriers and explore circular economy efficiencies. These sessions shifted the dynamic from individual compliance and “education” to collective problem-solving and inspiration on action, helping diverse suppliers find practical ways to meet sustainability commitments.
As a large corporate, our partner was seeing significant inertia from their supply chain regarding sustainability commitments. Despite clear requirements, progress had stalled, and the internal team wasn’t sure why. They needed to move past the “compliance” conversation to understand the real-world friction points preventing their suppliers from taking action.
We integrated 2-3 hour interactive sessions into their existing supply chain engagement days. Using the Small99 Action Box methodology, we hosted workshops that allowed suppliers to speak openly about their challenges. Bespoke content was created with actions most relevant to their suppliers. We focused on identifying shared barriers where suppliers could work collectively to drive both environmental impact and operational efficiency.
The workshops successfully unblocked communication barriers between the corporate and its suppliers. By fostering a collaborative rather than a purely transactional environment, we helped suppliers move from feeling pressured to feeling empowered. These sessions provided the corporate with vital insights into supply chain challenges while equipping suppliers with the collaborative tools needed to meet long-term sustainability targets.
We help organizations engage their audiences through personalised, interactive toolkits that replace jargon with “Aha!” moments. From supply chain engagement to internal strategy, we co-create the tools and train your team to lead the conversation.
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