3 Acorns: Eco Auditing

3 Acorns Eco-Audits

Donnachadh McCarthy provides an environmental auditing service to businesses, charities, families and individuals through his auditing company 3 Acorns Eco-Audits.

An eco audit is the assessment of current environmental practice and proposals for its improvement.

Eco-audits include:

Meeting with management
Attendance at a staff meeting to explain the process and to include employee input and suggestions.
A comprehensive, detailed electronic report detailing where your organisation already has good environmental practice in place and a list of recommendations on how to improve.
Return visit after one year.
Contacts to assist with implementation of the recommendations arising out of the audit.
Ongoing support/consultancy can be given following the audit if assistance in its implementation is required.
Use of the 3 Acorns Eco-Audited Logo

Our approach is friendly, accessible and down to earth. You will be impressed with our sensitivity to your individual circumstances.

Areas covered by the Eco-Audit can include:

Energy Use
Waste Disposal/ Recycling
Raw Material Use
Purchasing Policies
Management Systems
Employee Practice
Water Use
Transport
Energy and Environmental Footprint

“Our approach is not to find fault, but rather to discover what you are doing well already and to help the process of improving your environmental performance constructively. We feel a return visit is essential if you are to get the full value of the time and money you have invested in the audit.”

We have special small business, schools and charity rates – details on application

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Organizations audited include:

Groundwork Southwark (Environmental Charity)
Liberal Democrat HQ
Sun & Doves Public House, Camberwell
Essex Flour and Grain Ltd, Hackney
The White Swan's Restaurant and Bar, Dunstable
Brunswick Group LLP (international corporate communications partnership)
Down Hall Hotel
Centrepoint
Good Energy (green electricity company)
Seatons Solicitors (Corby)
Crisis
MotivAction (corporate events company)
Excelian (financial IT solutions company)
Ealing Studios
Oakbank School, Yorkshire
NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organizations)
Vitality Foods
CVS
Stanley’s Post (post production company)
Merton VSC
Sutton Citizens Advice Bureau
Calibre (Talking Books Library)
Glebe House Therapeutic Community, Cambridge
Park House Nursing Home
Hackney Community Transport
ROTA (Race on the Agenda)
East London Mosque
Worthing Churches Homeless Projects
Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF)
Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO)
BBC Daily Politics Show (waste audit)
The Building Exploratory

What they say about 3 Acorns Eco-Audits:

"UK's Top Eco-Consultant"
Sunday Times, "Inside Out" Magazine 2006

"He did a really good top-to-bottom analysis of the way the building works and how we work in it. He spent an afternoon with all the staff asking how they work and making suggestions so we all work together to reduce waste and consumption"
Mark Dodds, Sun & Doves. London South

“We really appreciate the time you have taken to produce such a thorough analysis.”
East London Mosque

“We are happy clients”
Brunswick Group LLP

“Your audit was thorough, thought-provoking but also very interesting and enjoyable”
Seatons Solicitors, Corby

“This report looks terrific. You've really done an incredible job of making sense of the studio and all its various spaces. Wow, you're good!”
Ealing Film Studios

“Thanks for inspiring me and the team over the time you have being doing the eco-audit.”
MotivAction

”Thanks for the eco-audit report on HCT, it has gone down very well with the senior managers and we are going to take it to the next board meeting. Unlike other work we have had done in this area your report has set out very clear recommendations.”
Hackney Community Transport”

3 Acorns Eco-Audits have featured on:

BBC's "It's Not Easy Being Green" with Dick Strawbridge
ITV's "How Green is my House"
The Independent.

To view an example 3 Acorns Business Eco-audit in pdf format, click here
Please save paper and do not print!

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