Small green businesses offered big prizes

Small businesses are being offered the chance to win up to £40,000 by pitching ideas to combat climate change.

The Shell Springboard programme, now in its fourth year, offers awards of between £20,000 and £40,000 to UK businesses with great ideas to save the planet.

To be in with a chance of winning, ideas must be innovative, commercially viable, and result in greenhouse gas emissions being reduced.

James Smith, Chairman of Shell UK, said grassroots innovation is a ‘crucial factor’ in slowing down global warming.

Businesses wishing to enter the competition must have been established for at least three months, have less than 250 employees, and must enter their idea by 7th November.