Having a clear vision requires more than just best judgement. Sustain’s consultants use the latest knowledge and management techniques to evaluate needs, create a vision, identify targets, resources, barriers and opportunities, while remaining focused on helping our clients and partners to develop environmental, social and economic good business and operating practices.
Sustainability & CSR
AffordableWarmth
Multiple Criteria Analysis
Stakeholder Consultation
Sustainability 
& CSR
How a business or organisation addresses environmental and social issues alongside its economic activities is increasingly being used to judge its long-term potential. Governments, customers and investors are demanding high performance. Sustain provides the following services to enable these components to be brought into working practice:
- Industry-specific research and analysis
- Stakeholder analysis
- Visioning workshop development
- Setting aims, objectives and performance targets
- Supply chain analysis
- Product performance
- Action planning
- Communications strategy
- Risk management strategy
Clients include Wolseley, Sentinel and BPMA
Affordable warmth
Improving the quality of social housing to increase warmth and reduce fuel bills benefits health, happiness and wealth for both tenant and landlord. Sustain’s consultants help Social Housing Landlords develop their own strategy that clarifies to tackle fuel poverty by facilitating the setting of objectives appropriate to their circumstances, as well as catalysing, enabling and demonstrating action to tackle fuel poverty.
Sustain provides the following services:
- Needs & resource analysis
- Establishing stakeholder support
- Setting aims, objectives and performance targets
- Accessing capital for housing improvements
- Action plan development
- Tenants and staff training
Multiple criteria analysis
Complex decision-making requires understanding and comparing many different issues. Used by government planning departments and private sector industries, Multiple Criteria Analysis (MCA) provides a rigorous methodology for analysing quantitative and qualitative issues to inform strategic planning
Sustain provides the following services:
- Background research & analysis
- Scenario modelling
- Identifying attributes & hierarchy development
- Pair-wise ranking
- Weighting & normalisation
Impacts of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme on UK fuel poverty white paper pdf (755KB)
Stakeholder consultation
It is crucial for organisations to understand stakeholder expectations and to be in a position to listen and act on their requirements, as appropriate.
Sustain can provide assistance in this process by designing a stakeholder engagement process which, if required, can be inline with the AA1000AS standard (Draft).
The benefits of stakeholder engagement include:
- Identifying and understanding stakeholder expectations, perceptions and key issues.
- Innovation
- Enhanced Performance
In addition to the design of the stakeholder engagement process, Sustain can provide facilitation of focus groups, panel and workshops.