The Council buys a wide variety of goods, services and works including:

• Adults' Social Care and other supporting services
• Children’s Supporting Services including social care, education, and early help
• consultants and professional services 
• community equipment and maintenance services
• contractors for infrastructure projects such as highways, buildings, and bridges 
• energy
• facilities management 
• IT software and hardware 
• property management services
• public health services 
• transport services
• waste management and disposal services

We are committed to reducing our carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 from our own operations and activities. What we buy, and who we buy from, will play a large part in meeting our target. We encourage suppliers to review our Net Zero Plan and the part that you can play in helping us to reach our objectives through our supply chain. The links below provide further advice, support and funding opportunities to enable suppliers to reduce their own carbon footprints:

• Net Zero Worcestershire support and grants

The Net Zero Worcestershire Programme offers fully funded decarbonisation and energy efficiency assessments with an expert energy advisor for eligible businesses. The review can help you to discover areas to reduce your carbon footprint and there is also an opportunity to apply for grant funding to implement projects.

• Workplace Charging Scheme - GOV-UK Find a grant (find-government-grants.service.gov.uk)

National Government scheme to provide support towards the costs of the purchase, installation and infrastructure of electric vehicle chargepoints at eligible places of work

• Sustainability Forum | Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce (hwchamber.co.uk)

The Sustainability Forum is a series of free events aimed at encouraging businesses across our region to reduce the environmental impacts of their business operations through energy and resource efficiency improvements, as well as wider sustainability good practice.