Green Rewards draws on the services of the Sustainability Advisory Panel, which is made up of 6 independent eco-specialists. They have been drawn together from a range of relevant sectors including fashion, waste management, carbon management, sustainable living and green charities, to advise us how to meet the highest standards of sustainability in everything we do.
Based on their thorough understanding of current environmental issues and activities, they are well placed to ensure that we provide you with an ecologically sound product. The Sustainability Advisory Panel ensures that you don’t have to worry about the authenticity of your favourite product in ‘The Green Shop’ - they have done the ground work for you, you just get to sit back and enjoy your greener lifestyle.
The Sustainability Advisory panel is made up of a cross section of individuals’ with different green backgrounds and experiences, but all with one objective of fostering a greener lifestyle.
In 2007, Leona was project manager for the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act commemoration events. This gave her an understanding of the importance of promoting the Fairtrade industry and led to her setting up BestFairtrade.com.
As the managing director of BestFairtrade.com, Leona aims to raise awareness of the huge range of Fairtrade products available and also to promote smaller businesses. BestFairtrade.com is the only web-based directory for Fairtrade products.
After graduating in International Business, Leona worked in Hong Kong and India where she gained first hand experience of trading in the textile industry. Leona is also a governor of a C of E primary school in Central London.
Dr Frances Corner
As Head of London College of Fashion, Frances prioritises sustainability projects. She is Chair of the Conference for Higher Education in Art and Design (CHEAD) with a special focus on social inclusion and employability. Recent events at the college include a series of events entitled Is Green the New Black?, encouraging people to be both fashionable and eco-conscious. Clothes swaps, discussions and wardrobe audits were on the creative menu. In addition to Green Rewards, Frances advises stakeholders such as the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
Christopher Broadbent
Christopher recently founded BASE ‘08. The Business and Sustainable Environments conference is set to become a landmark event with its business-to-business approach centred on linking profit with sustainability. In addition, as a non-executive director of Green Row PR, Christopher is focused on helping businesses grow. The former journalist is also a board member of The Brighter Group and The Argyll Consultancies PLC. Christopher’s eco ethos, however starts at home in East Sussex where he runs a sustainable farm that has successfully become a local showcase. His family run an online ethical shop. This all complements his pro bono work with Plantlife International, the only charity that is exclusively dedicated to the conservation of wild plants and fungi.
Dave Hampton
Dave won Building magazine’s inaugural Sustainability Leadership Award in 2005 for his work introducing green principles into the worlds of construction and property. Since launching that year as The Carbon Coach, he has coached several high profile individuals to reduce their lifestyle carbon ‘shadow’. Dave invites accountability, and his website reveals statistics about his personal lifestyle. This includes listing car fuel efficiency, low-carbon holiday strategies, and how a radical carbon-lite refurbishment of his home slashed his gas and elec. bills to £44 total per month - for a family of 6! Dave regularly presents and entertains, and is a former GB rower, engineer, business director, and Cambridge graduate. The social entrepreneur gave away 100’s of purple party balloons labelled simply ‘CO2’ at the I-Count/Campaign against Climate Change march in London, in Nov 2006, illustrating the unseen impact of the energy we waste in our daily lives.
William Swan
As Managing Director of Paper Round, Bill has grown the business to become the capital’s biggest office recycling company. They work with SMEs to reduce carbon footprints. What began with recycling bins now extends to recycling IT hardware, furniture, and services over 3500 London offices. In 2006 Bill founded Carbon Smart to enable more organisations in the fight against climate change. A former Director of the London Community Recycling Network has years of experience working in the waste management industry which are now put to excellent use. He graduated from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences.
Matt Prescott
Matt is the director of CarbonLimited, a highly creative project aimed at promoting a low carbon economy. Under the auspices of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), it’s spearheading an experiment to encourage the trading of personal carbon emissions. Matt’s award-winning sustainability projects include Brixton’s Angell Town regeneration. He is a regular green commentator for all of the major news television channels and writes for the broadsheets. An environmental scientist and geographer, Matt is committed to helping the public get involved with solving climate change.